The Thomas Waelde Advocacy Prize is awarded annually to the best individual advocate of the competition’s oral hearings, determined by adding the scores awarded to that oralist in the three preliminary rounds in which he or she argued. Babiak shared her award with Aaron Echols of Pepperdine University Law School and Marija Skundric of Belgrade University Faculty of Law. Kristian Hermanrud, a Suffolk Law LLM student, also received honorable mention for placing in the top ten among oral advocates.

“This was a great accomplishment for Otylia,” said Associate Professor Christopher Gibson, co-founder and co-director of the FDI Moot Competition. “She demonstrated great poise and a sharp intellect in presenting her arguments.”