2011 Conference
The 2011 ALSA Conference was held in Sydney from 8–15 July 2011, hosted by the University of New South Wales. The two premier sponsors of the Conference were the University of New South Wales and Clayton Utz.
A Competitions Subcommittee was set up in late 2010 to reform the ALSA Competitions rules. The results of this process were announced in June 2011, including:
- the addition of a fourth preliminary round,
- streamlining all rules for consistency,
- updating the score sheets,
- providing a mechanism for competitors to request their score sheets after the Conference,
- using the standard deviation of margins instead of the aggregate of margins as the secondary determinant to rank competitors,
- prescribing questions for judges to ask clients in Client Interviewing,
- altering the composition of the Appeals Review Board in the Appeals By-Law.
Other proposals, including the introduction of a power-pairing or Swiss system, were deferred to the medium and long term.
ALSA Moot: The winner was Otago University - (names). (Name) of (University) was awarded Best Speaker for the preliminary rounds of the competition.
Red Cross International IHL Moot: The winner was the University of Melbourne. Domenico Cucinotta of the University of Sydney was awarded Best Speaker for the preliminary rounds of the competition.
Witness Examination: The winner was Auckland University - Peter Syddall.
Client Interviewing: The winner was Otago University - Rob Clarke and Alex Boock.
Negotiation Championship: The winner was Macquarie University - Reece Corbett-Wilkins and Nicholas Ferrari.
Paper Presentation: The winner was Flinders University - Jemma Arman.
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