4-5 law students to compete in the most prestigious
legal competition in the world the Philip C. Jessup
International Law Moot. A summer-long journey of
research, all-nighters and compromis (but not necessarily
compromise), all leading up to the National Championship
in Canberra in February, is in many ways the quintessential
law student experience. 2013 Director of Competitions
TOM PLATT sits down with the 2012/2013 Macquarie
Jessup team, EMMA GORRIE, TIMOTHY LOU, DOMINIC TRAN
and ANDREW CLARK to talk moots, memes and the merits
of competing in external competitions.
I understand you guys spent a bit of
time in over the summer. How does it
feel being back here?
daylight.
campus as well.
courses running at the time?
maybe. No one else was here Boxing
Day or New Year's Day though.
legendary Jessup workload in
a little bit, but to start from the
beginning, for those people that
don't know anything about external
competitions, what is `Jessup'?
competition. It's a competition you
work on over the summer. The aim for
Australian universities is to come top
two in the Canberra February rounds
to qualify for the international rounds in