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About Us
The Advocacy & Mooting Unit
The Advocacy & Mooting Unit is a unit subordinated to Law Students’ Society (Lawsoc) from School of Law, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Before coming into shape as a unit, our forerunner, the Moot Committee of UUM set its humble beginning as early as 2008. Since the establishment, we are given the mandate to promote mooting, search for new blood and train our mooters with equitable skills to be competent in the mooting arena across the nation and globe.
In this day and age, the UUM Advocacy & Mooting Unit is segregated into two components, the Moot Committee and the Reserve Team with their respective roles.
Moot Committee
MOOT
COMMITTEE
The Moot Committee was established in 2013 led by our pioneer leader, Mr Sirwin Ooi. In every year, the moot committee would be selected through the way of passing baton from one tenure to another tenure to make sure that the mission of the mooting unit would be continued. This component is made up of a team of enthusiastic law students who plan, coordinate and execute activities, events as well as training for the advantages of UUM law students. Normally, the moot committee would be separated into a few departments which are the High Committee, Treasury, Marketing, Research & Development, Arts & Information Technology and Public Relation.
moot committee
Reserve Team
RESERVE
TEAM
The Reserve Team is the ‘backbone’ of our UUM Advocacy & Mooting Unit. It is made up by a group of talented individuals which are the law students of UUM that are recruited through a selection process. Some consistent training will be given to the reserve team to ensure that they are well-trained and equipped with professional mooting skills. Occasionally, we would invite our alumni which have a great achievement in mooting competition to coach and share their experience with the reserve team. Fully fledged mooters will be representing UUM in external mooting competitions such as NAMCO, AIAC, IHL, Jessup and KL Bar Mooting Competition.
UUM Advocacy & Mooting Unit has experienced a rapid growth in present years, we managed to stand out among all outstanding law schools in several competitions. We have trained many competitive and fully equipped mooters under the Reserve Team. Two remarkable achievements were our attaining of champion in the national round of International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition in year 2019 and 2020. We believe that we would together create more achievements in future!