2008: Murdoch School of Law Wins Inaugural FDI Moot Competition  

On 2 November 2008, at Suffolk University School of Law, BOston, Murdoch School of Law edged out Pepperdine School of Law to win the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Trophy in a close final. The final was judged by Prof. Alexander Lorz of Düsseldorf University, Tim Nelson of Skadden and Hew Dundas, Immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. The teams from Belgrade University and New York University took 3rd place. The organisers and arbitrators were consistently impressed by the high quality of the participants. Congratulations! All the award winners can be found here. In all 20 teams from around the world competed in the 2008 orals. Twenty-one teams submitted memorials and counter-memorials (the Addis Ababa team was unable to obtain visas for the orals). 2008 Problem 1st Clarifications 2nd Clarifications 2008 Schedule Photo: Kristian Maley, Nick Summers, Professor Tony Brennan, Andrew Kirk

2008 FDI Moot Teams

Addis Ababa University (Bustamante 2008, coach Martha B. Hailu); Caucasus University School of Law (Alfaro 2008, coach Levan Mosakhlishvili); Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN) (Winiarski 2008, coach Manuela de la Helguera); Hamline University Law School (Klaestad 2008, coach None); Murdoch School of Law (McNair 2008, coach Professor Tony Brennan); New York Law School (Tarazi 2008, coach Tai-Heng Cheng); New York University School of Law (Singh 2008, coach Jocelyn Burgos); Nicolaus Copernicus University (Guerrero 2008, coach Marcin Kaldunski); Pepperdine University School of Law (Lauterpacht 2008, coach Ted Holmquist); School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (Evensen 2008, coach Christopher Kee); South Texas College of Law (Bengzon 2008, coach Kimberlee Kovach); St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Law (Ago 2008, coach Sergey Usoskin); Suffolk University Law School (Jennings 2008); Universidad de Buenos Aires (Fleischhauer2008, coach Diego Brian Gosis); Universidad de Chile - Escuela de Derecho (Kojevnikov 2008, coach Rodrigo Polanco); Universidad de Costa Rica (Badawi 2008, coach Juan José Obando); Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Koretsky 2008, coach Javier Robalino); University of Belgrade Faculty of Law (Fabela 2008, coach Ugljesa Grusic); University of Iasi, Romania (Onyeama 2008, coach Carmen Moldovan); University of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski (Lachs 2008, coach Marek Jezewski); University of Wisconsin Law School (Spiropoulos 2008)

2008 Finals: 1st row, from left arbitrators Mr. Nelson, Prof. Lorz, Mr. Dundas; 2nd row, Prof. Gibson, Mr. Holmquist, Mr. Himebaugh and Ms. Heidary (Pepperdine) Mr. Maley, Mr. Kirk and Mr. Summers (Murdoch), Prof. Brennan (Murdoch coach) and Prof. Campbell

2008 Semi-Finalists

2008 Thomas Waelde Advocacy Prize Winner Gunjan Sharma (left) with Prof. Christopher Gibson

2008 OUP Best Memorial Prize Winners NYU flanked by Prof. Christian Campbell (left) and Prof. Christopher Gibson

2008 OUP Best Counter-Memorial Prize Winners Wisconsin with Profs. Campbell and Gibson

2008 Semi-finalists from University of Belgrade

Overall Runners Up from Pepperdine

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