The first edition of the Nuremberg Moot Court was held as part of Creighton University School of Law's annual summer school "From Nuremberg to The Hague" on 29 July 2013.

Students from Creighton University, Philipps University Marburg, Justus Liebig University Geißen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Kenyatta University School of Law participated in the moot court.

Judges for this inaugural edition included Fiona McKay, then-Chief of the Victims Participation and Reparations Section at the International Criminal Court, and Judge Geoffrey Robertson, then-judge at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, who presided over the Finals Bench.