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NUS performs well at Space Moot Finals
The NUS Space Moots Team, Joan Lim and Rakesh Kirpalani, won the Best
Memorial and Joan Lim won the Best Oralist Prize in the World Finals of the
Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition on 27 October 2005 in
Fukuoka, Japan. The NUS Team had won the Asia Pacific Regional rounds in
April 2005 and were sponsored by the JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency, to
attend the World Finals. Winning the Best Memorial Prize meant that the NUS
team had a direct entry to the World Finals. The North American Regional
Winners, George Washington University, and the European Regional Winners,
Cambridge University, fought it out in the Semi Finals before George
Washington University won the right to plead in the Finals.
The NUS Space Moots Team, Rakesh Kirpalani and Joan Lim
The World Finals were presided over by Judges of the International Court of
Justice, Judge Abdul G. Koroma from Sierra Leone, Judge Vladlen S.
Vereshchetin from the Russian Federation and Judge Hisashi Owada from Japan.
In a closely fought contest, George Washington University were declared the
winners.
Joan and Rakesh worked very hard on the competition and were greatly
assisted by Assoc Prof Bob Beckman, Assoc Prof Eleanor Wong and former space
mooters, notably Tan Kok Peng. In Japan , the team also received assistance
from James Teo, an exchange student currently at Kyushu University, and Boey
Shao Qiang, currently pursuing an LLM in Kyudai. The team were also assisted
greatly by the Dean of the Law Faculty Prof Ago and Mr Mark Fenwick of
Kyudai who allowed us to use a researcher's office for practice in
preparation for the finals. The team was coached by Asst. Prof. Lim Lei
Theng.
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