LAW4812 Extension 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 (particularly where a student has completed LAW4310 Advocacy or units relevant to the topic of the competition); and experience or skill in mooting, debating or other advocacy (assessed through an oral advocacy exercise).

Students 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:

1. IBA, ICC Hague, crim
2. Nuremberg Moot, crim
3. Oxford IP moot, intellectual property
4. Ian Fletcher International Insolvency Moot, cross border insolvency
5. FDI Frankfurt, investment arbitration
6. Price Oxford, media and information technology
7. International Maritime moot, maritime law
8. World Trade Organisation/FTA moot/John H Jackson Moot, WTO dispute settlement,
9. ADC-ACC-Asia Pacific Commercial Mediation Competition 2023
10. HSF Computational law Moot, technology
11. NSW Privacy Law moot.
12. The Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot
13. Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot
14. LAWASIA moot
15. Oxford Intellectual Property Moot 

For most of the competitions, teams will be expected do an in-depth analysis of a specific area of law (depending upon the mooting competition they are allocated to). This will include international and comparative law content and analysis. Teams are then required to produce at least one substantial written memorial, produced progressively over a few teacher-vetted drafts. Students will be required to regularly perform their mooting task, where their advocacy skills will be practised, observed, analysed and critiqued. In some competitions, there are national/regional qualification rounds for the oral rounds. After the memorials have been submitted, teams will undergo at least several practice rounds appearing before retired, real and mock judges who will asked them complex questions about their case. Students will extend on the learning objectives of LAW4805 Mooting and advocacy competition, by going deeper into legal analysis, research, written and verbal advocacy.