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FDI Moot Awards 2008

The awards (as set out in the Official Rules) are:

Winner of the Competition - Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Trophy - Murdoch University School of Law

The winning Team of the Final Round is the winner of the Competition

    Runner Up - Pepperdine University School of Law

    Third Place - New York University School of Law and University of Belgrade

Thomas Waelde Advocacy Award for Best Oralist - Gunjan Sharma, New York University School of Law

The best individual advocate of the Oral Hearings shall be determined by adding the scores awarded to that oralist in two Preliminary Rounds in which he/she argued. If the oralist participated in more than two Preliminary Rounds, the two Rounds with his/her maximum scores shall be taken into consideration. In memoriam Thomas Waelde

Oxford University Press Awards

    Best Claimant Memorial - New York University School of Law

    A Team that received the greatest numbers of points from the Board of Review for its Memorandum for Claimant shall be eligible for the Award - view the memorial.

    Best  Respondent Memorial - University of Wisconsin Law School

     A Team that received the greatest numbers of points from the Board of Review for its Memorandum for Respondent shall be eligible for the Award - view the counter-memorial.

Highest-Ranked Team - Murdoch School of Law

The Team with the highest overall Team score shall be eligible for the Award. The overall Team's score is the sum of the points for the Team's Memorial and Counter-Memorial and points granted to the Team's oralists during the Preliminary Rounds.

Honourable Mention Advocates - Andrew  Kirk, Kristian Maley, Daniel Himebaugh, Genus Heidary, Candy Tang, Sanja Panjkovic, Jovana Stevovic, Neda Shahghasemi, Ozana Olariu, Parisa Elahi, Gunjan Sharma

The  oralists ranked 2-10 during the Preliminary Rounds shall be Honourably Mentioned at the Closing Ceremony of the Competition.

Each year team and individual awards are conferred. Sponsors may offer pecuniary prizes (e.g. cash prizes, book prizes, scholarships) in conjunction with some of the  awards. 

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