Each academic year, UTS enters students in a number of prestigious intervarsity moots. These moots are not only a great opportunity to travel, but to equip yourself with knowledge of new areas of law as well as claim course credit on your degree!

Competing in the UTS internal competitions is highly advantageous in gaining placement in a team on any of the below listed competitions.

Intervarsity Moots and Competitions

Aside from the internal competitions, the UTS Law Students' Society also hosts a number of moots directed as a precursor to the national competitions below. Students are encouraged to attend and compete as early as possible to gain an increased appreciation in their legal studies.

Throughout the year, UTS will host a number of competitions based on a particular area of law with a local university. Students entering these competitions have the opportunity to learn from their peers from other universities around Sydney. It is expected that students would have competed in the junior and senior internal rounds before entering these competitions.

National Intervarsity Moots

Red Cross International Humanitarian Moot

The Moot's purpose is to equip students with knowledge of International Humanitarian Law issues. The Moot will assist law students in appreciating the growing importance of International Humanitarian Law, its nature as a system of protection during times of armed conflict and its role as a fundamental part of international law.

This competition is a team of two selected by the faculty.

International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot

The moot involves disputes relating to commercial maritime law and the controversy will be determined before an arbitral tribunal. Students need not have previously studied maritime law and in fact several past winning teams had no prior knowledge of maritime law before undertaking the moot. This intellectually rigorous competition gives a real insight into this fascinating area of law.

This competition is a team of four selected by the faculty.

Shine Lawyers Torts Moot

As the name would suggest, the Shine Lawyers Torts is a moot based on the area of tort law. Students in the moot will benefit from research and oratory skills. Further, the moot allows students to gain a deeper appreciation into this area of law.

This competition is team of four selected by the faculty.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) Moot

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) Moot is a national competition involving a series of moots judged by members of the AAT. Students are required to familiarise themselves with different areas of law that come within the AAT's jurisdiction, such as social security law and employment law.

Three teams of two is selected by the faculty.

Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

The Vis moot the largest international legal student competition that is held in Vienna (Austria) during the Easter holidays. Every year about 250 universities from 60 countries take part in the contest and more than 650 professional arbitrators, practicing lawyers and law professors assess their performance. The Moot represents a fictitious arbitration dispute between several companies located in different countries, arising out of the contract for the international sale of goods, governed by the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of 1980.

This competition is team of four selected by the faculty.

National Family Law Moot

The National Family Law Moot Competition was established in 1989 by the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia to encourage the study of family law.

This competition is team of four selected by the faculty.

Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

The world's largest and most prestigious moot court competition that attracts teams from over 500 law schools in more than 80 countries. The competition involves the simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial organ of the United Nations. The Australian National Rounds are held in January/February each year with the winner and runner-up travelling to Washington DC for the week-long international rounds in March/April

The Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition - Applications Now Open!

The Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition is organized by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at Oxford University's Faculty of Law and held from September to March each year. The purpose of the competition is to expand and stimulate interest in Media Law and Policy among students, who will develop expertise in arguing a case before an international bench of judges from different legal systems and backgrounds. Participants in the International rounds held in Oxford operate in a world where a Universal Court of Human Rights has been established to ensure the citizens of the United Nations are enjoying the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this world, the Universal Court of Human Rights substitutes all jurisdictions of all other regional courts and becomes the final adjudicator when all national remedies have been exhausted.


The Faculty of Law will, for the first time, participate in this competition in 2012 with a team of up to 4 students being selected to represent UTS. The first round of the competition requires teams to develop and write extensive submissions. From this round teams will then be invited to participate in the Orals Rounds held at Oxford University in March. Students selected for the team will be expected to have an understanding of basic principles of free speech, media law and public international law. It would be a distinct advantage to students to have completed studies in Media Law and Public International Law.


Please see the below link to apply.

http://datasearch2.uts.edu.au/law/mooting/detail.cfm?ItemId=28011

The Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition

The Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition is organized by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at Oxford University's Faculty of Law and held from September to March each year. The purpose of the competition is to expand and stimulate interest in Media Law and Policy among students, who will develop expertise in arguing a case before an international bench of judges from different legal systems and backgrounds. Participants in the International rounds held in Oxford operate in a world where a Universal Court of Human Rights has been established to ensure the citizens of the United Nations are enjoying the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this world, the Universal Court of Human Rights substitutes all jurisdictions of all other regional courts and becomes the final adjudicator when all national remedies have been exhausted.

More Information

Please visit the UTS law faculty website for more information located at http://datasearch2.uts.edu.au/law/mooting/index.cfm

To get regular updates on these moots as well as new competitions throughout the year please keep checking www.utslss.com.

Should you have any further competitions please do not hesitate to contact Andrew Berriman; Vice-President (Competitions) - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .