We have added a new “What’s On This Week” section to the Competitions Page where you can find out what is happening ‘this week’ (and the following week too) regarding internal competitions and intervarsity and international opportunities.

Follow this link to see What’s On in Competitions.

Congatualtions to the following students for being chosen to represent SULS and Sydney University Law School:

Sir John Peden Contract Moot Team (2012)

Louise Coleman (Senior Counsel), Rob Pietriche (Junior Counsel), and Sarah Bradbury (Solicitor).

Come see the team take on Macquarie University on 16 May 2012 at the Landerer Moot Court, Level 1, New Law Building, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus.

The National Family Law Moot Team (2012)

Diana Liu, Rob Pietriche and Nicola Walker.

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For more information regarding these Competitions, follow this link to the Intervarsity Competitions page.

This year’s Australian Law Students’ Association Conference is being held in Melbourne from 9 to ­16 July.

The conference features some of the largest national competitions in Mooting, Client Interviewing, Negotiations and Witness Examination.

The competition attracts universities from all over Australia, as well as New Zealand and occasionally Asia and Europe, and in 2012 the competition will be hosted in Melbourne during the July holidays.

Each year SULS fields teams in all of the moots and competitions which include the ALSA National Championship Moot, the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot, Witness Examination, Client Interviewing, and Negotiations.

Please note that JD students can apply

For more information and to apply, follow this link to the Intervarsity Competitions page.

The Intercollegiate Negotiation & Arbitration Competition (“INC”) is an international student competition held annually at Sophia University in Tokyo over the first weekend of December. Students are selected to represent Australia in one of two teams – one competing in Japanese, the other competing in English. Competitors gain experience in international commercial law and cross-cultural negotiation skills, receiving a partially or fully subsidised journey to Tokyo to participate in the competition. Several past Team members have also stayed on for summer internships at law firms in Tokyo.

All interested law students (especially mid-degree or final-year LLB or JD students) are encouraged to apply. Training and experience in negotiation or mooting (especially in contract) is advantageous but not essential. Japanese language speaking ability is crucial for applicants to the Japanese team. It is also looked upon favourably for students considering applying for the English Team - and possibly ‘graduating’ to the Japanese Team the following year.

Applications are NOW OPEN and close 18 June.

For more information and to apply, follow this link to the International Competitions page.

Yemaya is Sydney University Law Society’s annual interdisciplinary Women’s journal. This year’s editors would like to invite contributions on the following theme:

METAMORPHOSES

Contributors from all backgrounds (not necessarily law) are encouraged to critically explore this topic, touching upon the diverse and changing experiences of women with respect to the legal system, the legal profession, or any other locus of public or personal life.

Submissions can be essays, short stories, interviews, book reviews, original artworks, poetry or any other creative format. Written submissions should be up to 2,000 words and images should be a maximum of 300 dpi resolution.

Please send expressions of interest (optional) to women@suls.org.au; final submissions are due Friday 8 June.

Yemaya will be launched at King & Wood Mallesons in late August. Prizes for the best submissions will be awarded at the launch. Artworks also have opportunity to be exhibited in the Yemaya Pop-Up Exhibition Series.