LAW4805 Mooting & Advocacy Competition 2016
Application and Unit Overview
The handbook entry with more information, including the assessment regime, is available here:
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/units/LAW4805.html
Because every student will be part of a mooting team, places in this unit are strictly limited.
Students will be chosen in a competitive application process.
Applications are open to all students currently in their second or subsequent year of their law
degree. Preference will generally be given to later year students, although it is expected that some
places will be offered to students earlier in their degree.
Criteria for selection will include course progression, marks in completed units, experience or
skill in mooting, debating or other advocacy. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to make a brief
presentation to assist in selecting the final group.
How to apply
1. Complete a hard copy of this application form (the 3 pages following this page).
2. Email a copy of your completed application to the Law Faculty’s Mooting
Administrative Officer (Ms Trudi Gilmore - trudi.gilmore@monash.edu) as soon as
possible. The last day for making a submission is Friday 18 March, 2016 (by 4pm).
3. Students will be admitted to the unit, on a first come basis, subject to their application
being approved by the unit’s Chief Examiner (Rowena Cantley-Smith).
4. Include the following documents in your application:
a. A copy of your most recent marks. A scanned printout or screenshot from the
online system will do – it need not be an official transcript; and
b. A summary CV (max 3 pages) that covers any information not already covered in
the application form, which you think is relevant.
Depending on the number of applicants, it may be necessary to have a further exercise to select
the final list of students. Shortlisted applicants will be advised if this is the case.
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LAW4805 Mooting & Advocacy Competition 2016
Application Form
Name:
Course (eg BA/LLB; JD):
Year of law degree (eg 3rd year):
Year law degree will be completed:
Email:
Phone:
I have completed, or will have completed by the end of semester 2, 2016:
 LAW 1100 or 1101
 LAW 1102 or 1104
Other Units, Research, Other Experience
My other units in Semester 1 and 2, 2016 and summer semester 2016-16 are:
SEM 1 2016
SEM 2 2016
SUMMER 2016-2017
I have completed research assignments in the following subjects:
SUBJECT NAME
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ASSIGNMENT
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Mark
LAW4805 Mooting & Advocacy Competition 2016
I have the following advocacy / mooting / public speaking / debating experience:
APPLICANTS NEED TO TAKE NOTE OF POTENTIAL COMPETITION DATES, WHICH
MAY FALL OUTSIDE SEMESTER DATES, AND WEEKDAYS. THE DATES FOR SOME
COMPETITIONS ARE OVER SUMMER OR IN EARLY 2017. THIS MEANS THAT SOME
STUDENTS WILL NEED TO BE AVAILABLE AT THOSE TIMES.
ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS WILL BE
ALLOCATED TO A PARTICULAR MOOT, PREFERENCES WILL BE TAKEN INTO
ACCOUNT BY THE CHIEF EXAMINER.
TO ASSIST IN ALLOCATING STUDENTS TO COMPETITIONS, PLEASE PROVIDE THE
FOLLOWING INFORMATION.
Non-Study Commitments
My work commitments, clerkships and other commitments for the period July 2016 – February
2016 that would leave me unavailable to compete, or to work intensively with the team in the
lead-up to the competition, are as follows (include days/times of unavailability if known):
WORK COMMITMENTS
CLERKSHIPS
OTHER COMMITMENTS
2016-2016
2016-2016
2016-2016
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LAW4805 Mooting & Advocacy Competition 2016
Mooting Competition Preference
My preference is for the following competition(s): [tick or highlight as many as apply]
No preference – happy with any of them
Hon Michael Kirby Contract Law Arbitration Moot
Shine Torts Law Moot
Sir Harry Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Moot
Baker & McKenzie National Women's Moot
Castan Centre Human Rights Moot
Environmental Law Moot
Oxford Intellectual Property Moot
Australian-NZ Animal Law Moot
Akhurst Private Law Moot
Other competitions
The list of competitions is not yet fixed and others may be available, so mention any that are of
interest. Please specify name of other competitions, including dates, location, and website if
available (do not include Jessup or Vis Moots, as they are separate units).
Name
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Dates
Location
2016-2016
Website and/or Contact
details