Jessup and WTO Moot Teams
Moot Team Winners
Jessup team pictured left at the High Court of Australia, Canberra (l-r): Assoc. Prof. Tania Voon, Sienna Merope (LLB), Felicity Ryburn (JD), Sonja Zivak (JD), Seamus Coleman (LLB), Dave Heaton (LLB), Assoc. Prof. Andrew Mitchell. Pictured right (l-r): the WTO team Christopher Tran (LLB), Erica Leaney (LLB), Rudi Kruse (JD), and Laura Bellamy (LLB)
We are very pleased to announce Melbourne Law School has won the 2008-2009 European Law Students’ Association WTO Moot Court Competition in Taipei
Congratulations to our very talented team and coaches.
The Melbourne team, comprising Laura Bellamy (LLB), Rudi Kruse (JD), Erica Leaney (LLB) and Christopher Tran (LLB) and coached by Associate Professors Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon, prevailed over the University of Barcelona (Spain) and the Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) in the Preliminary Rounds and the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands) in the Semi-Final. It then defeated Duke University (USA) in a closely fought Grand Final before an expert bench of nine panellists, chaired by Professor Mitsuo Matsushita, a former WTO Appellate Body Member.
In addition to winning the competition, the team received awards for Best Overall Written Submissions, Best Oralist in the Semi-Finals (Christopher Tran), and Fifth Best Oralist in the Preliminary Rounds (Rudi Kruse). The team’s prizes include scholarships to complete the five-week Summer Academy of the World Trade Institute in Berne as well as specialised courses in conjunction with the University of Barcelona’s new Master of Laws in International Economic Law and Policy.
Melbourne Law School is now the only institution to have won this global competition more than once. Melbourne first entered the competition in 2006-2007 and won the Final Oral Round in Geneva that year.
Melbourne Law School thanks Telstra for its continued support of our students in this competition.
Having won the Australian tournament of the 2009 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, another Melbourne Law School team recently competed in the international rounds in Washington DC with 113 other teams from around the world. The team comprised Seamus Coleman (LLB), Dave Heaton (LLB), Sienna Merope (LLB), Felicity Ryburn (JD), and Sonja Zivak (JD). The team won its four preliminary round moots and proceeded to the advanced rounds ranked 12th.
Unfortunately, it was knocked out in the run-off rounds in a close match against University College London, which proceeded to the Grand Final, where it was defeated by the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Sincere thanks go to all the individuals who assisted in the team’s development, as well as Allens Arthur Robinson, Jessup International Law Moot Inc, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and Melbourne Law School for generous financial support.
Both teams are coached by Associate Professors Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon.
Past WTO Moot Teams
MLS is searching for team members from 1978 to 1987. Please email us and let us know if you were a member of one of these teams.
2008
Emily Long
Devon Whittle
Jessica Rae
Olaf Ciolek2007
Sarah Kemeny, LLB (Hons) 2008
Chian Kee
Dave Heaton
Liz Sheargold, LLB (Hons) 2008
2000 and beyond
| 2008 Nawaar Hassan, LLB 2008 Claire Leslie Julienne Hortle, LLB (Hons) 2008 Preethi Vergis Dimitri Ternovski |
2007 Ashnita Rozario, LLB (Hons) 2008 Fergus Green, LLB (Hons) 2008 Paras Lalwani, exchange student 2006 Lauren Knight, LLB (Hons) 2008 Rebecca Hughes |
2006 Anna Hood, LLB (Hons) 2007 Cameron Nolan, LLB (Hons) 2007 Patrick Hayden, LLB (Hons) 2007 Tim Rogan, LLB (Hons) 2008 Nicholas Walter, LLB (Hons) 2008 |
2005 Kevin Love, LLB (Hons) 2006 Matthew Tilleard, LLB (Hons) 2006 Sara Summerbell, LLB 2006 Alice Ashbolt, LLB (Hons) 2008 John Edmund Molloy, LLB (Hons) 2008 |
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2001 |
2000 Emily Hudson LLB (Hons) 2000, LLM 2006 Katie Young, LLB (Hons) 2000 Nehal Bhuta, LLB (Hons) 2000 Peter Henley, LLB (Hons) 2001 Simon Moglia, LLB (Hons) 2001 |
The Nineties
| 1999 Amanda Rologas, LLB (Hons) 2000 Christopher Bacon, LLB (Hons) 2001, LLM 2006 Frances Gordon LLB (Hons) 2001 Katy Barnett LLB (Hons) 2000 Nathaly Schnitzer, LLB 2001 |
1998 Richard James Groom Nicholas Anson, LLB (Hons) 2000 |
1997 |
1996 Caitlin Rieger, LLB (Hons) 1996 Jeremy Farell, LLB (Hons) 1996 Justine Bratihwaite, LLB (Hons) 1997 Sue Robertson, LLB (Hons) 1996 Rachel de Costa |
1995 Alison O'Brien, LLB (Hons) 1996 Gabrielle Simm, LLB (Hons) 1996 Peta Credlin, LLB 1998 Brendan Reilly, LLB (Hons) 1996 Sarah Storey, LLB (Hons) 1996 |
| 1994 Carolyn Evans, LLB (Hons) 1994 Helen Stylianou, LLB (Hons) 1995 Maddeline Chiam LLB (Hons) 1995 Stephen Donaghue, LLB (Hons) 1996 Sundhya Pahuja, LLB (Hons) 1995 |
1993 Alison Duxbury, LLB (Hons) 1993, PhD Law 2008 Byron Ko, LLB (Hons) 1994 Richard Bootle, LLB (Hons) 1994 Susan Brennan, LLB (Hons) 1993 Tony Pitman, LLB (Hons) 1995 |
1992 Donald Speagle, LLB (Hons) 1992 Kris Walker, LLB (Hons) 1992, LLM 1997 Mark Champion, LLB (Hons) 1993 Melissa Conley Tyler, LLB (Hons) 1993 Alistair Iles, LLB (Hons) 1993 |
1991 Chris Horan, LLB (Hons) 1991 Michael Edelstein, LLB 1992, Grad Dip 2004 Fiona Glen, LLB (Hons) 1992 Ruxandra Lazeraskou, LLB 1993 Jenny Ridgway (Irving) LLB 1992, LLM 1996 |
1990 Amanda Gorley, LLB (Hons) 1990 Colin Fenwick, LLB 1990 Grad Dip 1991, LLM 2000 Hilary Bonney, LLB (Hons) 1989 James Baillieu, LLB 1992 Peter Larsen, LLB (Hons) 1992 |
The Eighties
| 1989 Alice de Jong, LLB (Hons) 1991, Grad Dip 1992, PhD 2008 David Forbes, LLB 1991, LLM 2003 Pene Matthew Wayne Morgan, LLB (Hons) 1989 Paul Radlow, LLB1990 |
1988 Jonathan Gill, LLB (Hons) 1989, LLM 1993 Rosemary Martin, LLB (Hons) 1989 Fiona Hudgson, LLB 1988 Susanna Lobez, LLB (Hons) 1989 Daryl Williams, LLB 1988 |
1982 Mary Crock, LLB (Hons) 1983 Karin Chua, LLB (Hons) 1983 |
1981 Norman O'Bryan, LLB (Hons) 1981 Mary Padbury, LLB (Hons) 1981 Peter Willis, LLB (Hons) 1981 Susan York, LLB 1983 |
1980 Hilary Charlesworth, LLB (Hons) 1980 Thomas Reid, LLB (Hons) 1981 Peter Willis, LLB (Hons) 1981 |
Past Jessup Moot Teams