LAW5059 · Extension mooting and advocacy competition

Overview

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 LAW5355 Advocacy or units relevant to the topic of the competition); and experience or skill in mooting, debating or other litigation performances. 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: • IBA, ICC Hague, crim • Nuremberg Moot, crim • Oxford IP moot, intellectual property • Ian Fletcher International Insolvency Moot, cross border insolvency • FDI Frankfurt, investment arbitration • Price Oxford, media and information technology • International Maritime moot, maritime law • World Trade Organisation/FTA moot/John H Jackson Moot, WTO dispute settlement, • ADC-ACC-Asia Pacific Commercial Mediation Competition 2023 • HSF Computational law Moot, technology • NSW Privacy Law moot. • The Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot • Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot • LAWASIA moot • 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 LAW5058 Mooting and advocacy competition, by going deeper into legal analysis, research, written and verbal advocacy.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Undertake substantial research to identify appropriate case law, legislation and a broad range of secondary materials.
2. Analyse thoroughly and respond convincingly to complex legal problems by applying properly interpreted legislative provisions to their resolution.
3. Lead, interact and collaborate with peers to synthesise and evaluate complex information derived from a range of sources in order to formulate compelling evaluations of legal problems.
4. Communicate persuasively in both oral and written modes to a range of audiences by delivering concise but convincing and nuanced responses to complex legal problems.
5. Demonstrate high-level understanding of complex legal questions from a judge by responding to judicial questions directly and appropriately, with precision and detail in real time.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit typically comprises of a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study applicable to a 6 credit point unit. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning, and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.