Mooting and advocacy competition

What it covers

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.

Assessment

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