Mooting Program
Mooting is an important part of the College's academic and professional program. Students interested in appellate advocacy are given full opportunity to research and present positions in the College and at national and international mooting competitions.
As a component of the first year Legal Research and Writing course, all first year students will experience and participate in a moot. Mooting offers a forum for the development and presentation of legal arguments in the context of an appeal case, as well as a vehicle for the exercise of legal research and writing skills. Throughout the course of the moot experience, students will:
- research and write a memorandum of law identifying and responding to the issues raised by assigned factual problems
- prepare a factum of law modeled after the factum filed by practicing lawyers with an appellate court, and finally
- present oral arguments as counsel for either the appellant or the respondent before a panel of faculty and upper year student judges
All members of faculty participate in the creation of the problems assigned to designated student groups, in the supervision of students engaged in the process of research and preparation of argument, and in the evaluation of and response to student performances. The program is designed to provide a constructive learning experience in legal advocacy for all first year students.
Upper year students are invited to participate in national and international moot competitions as part of the curriculum in the College of Law. The program is designed to give students experience both in the preparation of a case for argument and in the presentation of that argument before an appellate court. The College is extremely proud of its record of success in these competitions.
