About LAWASIA

LAWASIA is an international organisation of lawyers’ associations, individual lawyers, judges, legal academics, and others that focus on the interests and concerns of the legal profession in the Asia Pacific region. LAWASIA facilitates its members’ participation in the most dynamic economic region in the world. Since its inception in 1966, LAWASIA has built an enviable reputation among lawyers, business people and governments, both within and outside the region, as a committed, productive and genuinely representative organisation.
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About Mooting

The LAWASIA Moot Standing Committee acknowledges the importance of and observes that mooting has emerged as a critical component of legal education simply because it provides the skills training element for the fundamental skills necessary for a prospective lawyer. Indeed many leading law schools have either made mooting compulsory or forms an important part of the curriculum. Mooting offers a systematic training process of the essential skills of problem solving, legal analysis, drafting legal submissions and the development of public speaking. The ability to articulate one’s thoughts and arguments condensing disparate, often conflicting legal authorities into succinct and persuasive arguments is arguably the single most important weaponry in the lawyer’s arsenal.

Some Law Schools have yet to recognise the importance of mooting where it is considered an extracurricular activity confined to and organised by the student body. Such neglect cannot be allowed to continue if we are to raise the standards of our lawyers to meet the needs of a globalised world. We recognise that the constrains of individual Law Schools and for this reason the Committee would encourage all Law Schools not only to participate but hopes that its students would be encouraged to attend the Competition.
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About the 4th LAWASIA International Moot 2009

The 4th LAWASIA International Moot is scheduled to be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam between 9-12November 2009. The Host University is Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, the preeminent Law School in the City. We expect some 18 leading Law Schools from all over the world to participate in this competition.

The Moot Problem for 2009 involves a dispute between an Incorporated body and a sovereign Government on matters relating to the International Law in cultural heritage protection and the Law of the Sea. The relevant basic documents include United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego Bay, 10 December 1982), United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. Informal Proposal by Cape Verde, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Tunisia and Yugoslavia of 27 March 1980: UN doc. A/CONF.62/C.2/InformalMeeting/43/Rev.3, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Declarations made by Cape Verde, The Netherlands, Malaysia, Portugal and Bangladesh, International Convention on Salvage (London, 28 April 1989) and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (Paris, 2 November 2001).