Students place third in international moot

Murdoch University law students placed third overall and won the Best Counter-Memorial prize in the Foreign Direct Investment Moot held in Frankfurt recently.

Murdoch’s Dean of Law Professor Gabriël Moens mentored James Losari, Pricilla Halim, Samantha Lord and Nicholas Summers who made up the team.

James Losari also received an Honourable Mention in the Best Oralist category.

Professor Moens said the team competed against 19 international law schools including those from the University of Hong Kong, Suffolk University, University of Buenos Aires and Copernicus University of Poland.

“The team represented a company that had made an Intellectual Property investment which was subsequently taken away when the state of investment issued a compulsory licence to competing companies,” Professor Moens said.

Each of the students spent six months researching and preparing lengthy and sophisticated legal Memoranda in support of the position of each party in the hypothetical dispute.