LAW4805 Mooting and advocacy competition

Admission to this unit is by competitive application. The unit will be capped depending on the number of competitions offered from year to year. Criteria for selection will include course progression, marks in completed units, experience or skill in mooting, debating or other advocacy (assessed through an oral advocacy exercise).

You will be allocated to teams for various external mooting competitions in which they will represent Monash University. These will vary from year to year, but may include:

Michael Kirby Contract Moot
Shine Torts Moot
Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Moot
National Women's Moot
Castan Centre Human Rights Moot
National Environmental Moot
National Family Law Moot
World Human Rights Moot
International Humanitarian Law Moot

Seminars are provided on advocacy techniques, research techniques and the drafting of court documents. You will then work as a team on the problem relevant to your assigned competition, including researching the problem, preparing written submissions and formulating oral arguments. Attendance at scheduled sessions is compulsory.

Where permitted by the rules of the respective competitions, you will be invited to critique the practice performances of your peers in other competitions. Regular practice moots will also be held for each team, overseen by academics and external guest judges with expertise in the relevant field.