ALPSA AGM Thursday 20 November - Call for Nominations

ALPSA will be having its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 20 November at 6.30 pm, to be held in the Moot Court at UQ's St Lucia Campus.

Nominations are invited from all interested parties; prior membership or involvement with ALPSA is not a requirement. The positions available are:

• President
• Treasurer
• Secretary
• Competition Convener
• Public Relations Officer
• Officer without portfolio

If there is more than one nomination for a position (excluding President, Treasurer or Secretary), the Meeting may allow two people to jointly hold the position.

We encourage all to get involved- anyone who is interested is more than welcome to play a role in ALPSA for 2009. Nominations should be sent to alpsa2008@gmail.com - simply include your name and a contact phone number, as well as which position you intend to stand for.

Nominations should be submitted as soon as possible, but may be made from the floor at the meeting. Please feel free to contact us at alpsa2008@gmail.com if you have any questions or queries.

See you on Thursday!

ALPSA Annual Report in UQLS Res Ipsa Magazine

See here for the UQLS yearbook, Res Ipsa, which contains a report on ALPSA's year in 2008.

ALPSA Moot

Congratulations to all the teams that participated in the ALPSA 2008 Legal Philosophy Moot in late September this year.

The moot was based on the problem of the Speluncean Explorers written by Lon Fuller, and required teams to consider philosophical and jurisprudential issues. Judges from UQ, QUT and
Griffith put teams to the test, raising issues that ranged from questions of criminal procedure to the nature of the social contract.

Teams competed in three rounds of competition, and a team of UQ mooters comprising Chris Curtis, Michelle Delport and Edmund Robinson ultimately won the Grand Final, which was judged by the rather intimidating panel of Professor Ratnapala, Dr Crowe & Acting Judge John Devereaux SC.

Runners-up in the Final were Louise Young and Luke Gamble of QUT, with Louise winning the Best Speaker Prize for both the General Rounds and the Grand Final.

Thanks to all the teams that participated, as well as the following judges of the general rounds:
Associate Professor William MacNeil (Griffith University), Dr Nick James (UQ), Mark Thomas (QUT), Professor Jim Allan (UQ), Dr Francesca Bartlett (UQ) and Ryan Goss.