Monash mooters win 8th in Jessup 2024 Australia
Monash Law Jessup mooting team Sophia Ao, Mridul Garg (Captain), Alec Muir, Pimal Senanayaka, Andrea Drakulic, and Moot Coach, William Lye OAM KC
The Monash Law mooting team won 8th place in the quarter finals of the Australian leg of the world's largest moot court competition, The Jessup 2024, in Canberra. Monash Law was also declared joint Applicant Memorial winner alongside the University of Western Australia.
This is a terrific achievement by the Monash Law team comprising of Mridul Garg (Captain), Sophia Ao, Andrea Drakulic, Pimal Senanayaka, and Alec Muir.
Monash Law's Moot Coach, William Lye OAM KC celebrated the result, exclaiming that before they even got to the quarter finals, the team had competed in two gruelling days of back-to-back moots and judging from 10am to 8.30pm.
The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the largest moot court competition in the world with around 700 law schools in 100 countries competing. The Competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial organ of the United Nations. Every eligible school is allowed to submit only one team to the competition. Teams prepare oral and written pleadings arguing both the applicant and respondent positions of the case.
Joint winners of the Applicant Memorial at Jessup 2024, Monash Law and the University of Western Australia mooting teams
In the weeklong lead up to the quarter finals, Monash Law's moot team beat the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, but lost to the University of Sydney and University of Wollongong.
This is a significant result for Monash Law as it's the first time we've made it to the quarter finals since Monash Law's Moot Coach, William Lye OAM KC started working with the Jessup unit. Previously, the highest Monash Law ranking in the Jessup was 9th place.
In the quarter finals, the Monash Law team competed with Macquarie University who had won all 4 rounds in the Preliminary Rounds. Monash Law won the coin toss and tactically chose to be the Respondent as they had won two of their Respondent rounds.
From Monash Law and on behalf of the Monash Law mooting team, congratulations to the Macquarie University mooting team for winning our quarterfinal and going on to win the Grand Final. Congratulations also to runners-up the University of Sydney.
University of Technology Sydney was the winner of the Plate for 3rd and 4th place went to the University of Melbourne.
The top three teams, Macquarie University, University of Sydney, and University of Technology Sydney will advance to the 2024 White & Case Jessup International Rounds in Washington DC held between 30 March to 6 April 2024.