COMPETITION
Texas Young
Lawyers
Association
(TYLA) State
Moot Court
Competition
Usual
Month
June
Emory Civil
Rights &
Liberties Moot
Court
Oct.
John Marshall
Law School
International
Moot Court
Competition in
Information
Technology and
Privacy Law
Oct
Professional
Responsibility &
Ethics Moot
Court
Oct
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This competition, open to all ABAaccredited law schools in Texas, is
held in connection with the State Bar
annual meeting. The Texas Supreme
Court or the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals presides over the final
round (depending on whether it is a
civil or criminal problem.)
The Emory Moot Court Society is
pleased to announce the fifth annual
Emory University School of Law Civil
Rights and Liberties Moot Court
Competition to be held from Friday,
October 14 - Sunday, October 16,
2011, at Emory University School of
Law in Atlanta.
Established in 1981, the Moot Court
Competition in Information
Technology & Privacy Law has
become one of the largest and most
highly respected of all international
moot courts. Students from law
schools throughout the country and
from outside the U.S. gather at John
Marshall each year to brief and
argue challenging and unresolved
issues of technology law.
The Mercer Advocacy Council is
pleased to announce the 2nd Annual
Legal Ethics and Professionalism
Moot Court Competition. The
competition will be held on
Thursday, October 20 through
Saturday, October 22, 2011, at
Mercer University's Walter F. George
School of Law in Macon, Georgia.
Mercer University School of Law is
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http://www.law.emory.edu/student-life/studentorganizations/moot-court-society/emory-civil-rights-and-libertiescompetition.html
http://www.itmootcourt.com/
http://law.mercer.edu/academics/mercerleap
proud to host the first in the nation
moot court competition in Legal
Ethics and Professionalism, and after
a highly successful inaugural
competition in 2010, we look
forward to an even better
competition in 2011.
Pepperdine
University
School of Law
National
Entertainment
Law Moot Court
Competition
National Moot
Court
Competition
Thomas Tang
Nov
The Pepperdine University School of
Law National Entertainment Law
Moot Court Competition is held at
the Law School in Malibu. Each team,
consisting of two or three students,
argues novel entertainment law
issues before some of the best
entertainment lawyers in Los
Angeles.
Nov/Feb Since 1950, the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, in
conjunction with the American
College of Trial Lawyers, has
sponsored the National Moot Court
Competition. Each year, over 150 law
schools compete in the regional
rounds throughout the United States
and the winners advance to the final
rounds which are held at the House
of the Association.
Oct/Nov The Thomas Tang National Moot
Court Competition was founded in
1993 by the APA Law Student
Association of the South Texas
College of Law, Houston, Texas. It is
now administered by the NAPABA
Law Foundation and the NAPABA
Judicial Council. The Competition is
open to all students but is especially
designed to reach out to APA law
students and provide them with an
http://law.pepperdine.edu/organizations/moot_court/entertainment_law.html
http://www.nycbar.org/LawStudents/MootCourt.htm
http://www.napaba.org/napaba/showpage.asp?code=moot
Jessup Int’l
Mar
The Annual
Willem C. Vis
International
Commercial
Arbitration
Moot
April
opportunity to showcase their
writing and oral advocacy skills and
compete for scholarships totaling
$10,000 which are generously
sponsored by the Anheuser-Busch
Companies, Inc.
Now in its 50th year, the Philip C.
Jessup International Law Moot Court
Competition is the world's largest
moot court competition, with
participants from over 500 law
schools in more than 80 countries.
The competition is a simulation of a
fictional dispute between countries
before the International Court of
Justice, the judicial organ of the
United Nations.
The goal of the Vis Arbitral Moot
focuses on the study of international
commercial law arbitration for
resolution of international business
disputes and consists of two phases:
the writing of memorandums for
claimant and respondent and the
hearing of oral argument based upon
the memorandums -- both settled by
arbitral experts in the issues
considered. The forensic and written
exercises require determining
questions of contract -- flowing from
a transaction relating to the sale or
purchase of goods under the United
Nations Convention on Contracts for
the International Sale of Goods and
other uniform international
commercial law -- in the context of
an arbitration of a dispute under
specified Arbitration Rules. In the
pairings of teams for each general
round of the forensic and written
http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/
http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/vis.html
Wagner
ABA National
Appellate
Advocacy
Competition
Chief Judge
Conrad B.
Duberstein
exercises, every effort is made to
have civil law schools argue against
common law schools -- so each may
learn from approaches taken by
persons trained in another legal
culture. Similarly, the teams of
arbitrators judging each round are
from both common law and civil law
backgrounds.
Mar
The New York Law School Moot
Court Association administers
the Robert F. Wagner National Labor
and Employment Law Moot Court
Competition. For thirty years, as
many as fifty schools from across the
country have competed in this
prestigious event.
The Wagner Competition is the
nation’s largest student-run moot
court competition and the only
national competition dedicated
exclusively to the areas of labor and
employment law.
Mar/Apr The ABA Law Student Division's
National Appellate Advocacy
Competition (NAAC) emphasizes the
development of oral advocacy skills
through a realistic appellate
advocacy experience. Competitors
participate in a hypothetical appeal
to the United States Supreme Court.
The competition involves writing a
brief as either respondent or
petitioner and then arguing the case
in front of the mock court. This
year’s competition will focus on a
Constitutional Law issue
Mar
St. John's University School of Law
and the American Bankruptcy
Institute sponsor the 17th Annual
http://www.nyls.edu/pages/315.asp
http://www.abanet.org/lsd/competitions/naac/
http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/graduate/law/academics/llm/duberstein
National
Bankruptcy
Memorial Moot
Court
Competition
Prince
Hispanic
National Bar
Association
National Moot
Court
Competition
ABA Negotiation
Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein
National Bankruptcy Memorial Moot
Court Competition to be held at St.
John's University.
Mar
Dean Jerome Prince Memorial
Evidence Competition
The Dean Jerome Prince Memorial
Evidence Competition is named in
honor of the late Jerome Prince,
renowned evidence scholar, teacher,
and author of Prince on Evidence,
who served as Dean of Brooklyn Law
School from 1953-1971.
The competition is hosted in the
spring by the Moot Court Honor
Society on Brooklyn Law School's
campus in the heart of Brooklyn
Heights. The Competition provides
law students from across the country
an opportunity to write an appellate
brief addressing evidentiary issues in
a contemporary context. Each year,
distinguished scholars and judges
join the competition's final bench.
Mar
This national moot court
competition is sponsored by the
Hispanic National Bar Association
and held annually in New York City.
Nov/Feb The ABA Law Student Division's
Negotiation Competition promotes
greater interest among law students
in legal negotiation and provides a
means for them to practice and
improve their negotiating skills. The
competition simulates legal
negotiations in which law students,
http://www.brooklaw.edu/academics/mootcourt/princecompetition.aspx
http://www.hnba.com/ImportantNotice2007MootCourt.asp
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_students/events_competitions/practical_skills_competitions.html
ABA Client
Counseling
National Trial
Advocacy
Competition
ABA Labor and
Employment
Law Trial
Advocacy
Competition
acting as lawyers, negotiate a series
of legal problems. The simulations
consist of a common set of facts
known by all participants and
confidential information known only
to the participants representing a
particular side. All of the simulations
deal with the same general topic, but
the negotiation situation varies with
each round and level of the
competition.
Feb/Mar The ABA Law Student Division's
Client Counseling Competition
simulates a law office consultation in
which law students, acting as
attorneys, are presented with a
client matter. They conduct an
interview with a person playing the
role of the client and then explain
how they would proceed further in
the hypothetical situation.
Oct
The National Trial Advocacy
Competition (NTAC) sponsored by
the MSU Law Moot Court & Trial
Advocacy Board provides a quality
setting for students to develop their
trial advocacy skills before
distinguished members of the bar
and bench. This competition is
designed for teams of four
participants – two advocates and
two witnesses.
Nov/Jan The Labor and Employment Law
Section of the American Bar
Association established the LEL Trial
Advocacy Competition to introduce
law students to the challenges and
rewards of employment and labor
litigation. Law students who
participate in the Competition have
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_students/events_competitions/practical_skills_competitions.html
http://www.law.msu.edu/ntac/
http://www.abanet.org/labor/trialad/home.shtml
the opportunity to develop their trial
advocacy skills in a mock courtroom
experience. The Competition offers
participating students a forum in
which they may develop the skills
they will be using as practitioners,
and a chance to meet and network
with fellow law students and labor
and employment law practitioners.
Puerto Rico Trial
Advocacy
Competition
Oct
NTC
Mar
American
Association for
Justice National
Student Trial
Advocacy
Mar
Our mission is to inspire excellence
in trial advocacy by hosting an
invitational Trial Advocacy
Competition. The competition will be
held from October 27th to the 29th in
the the United States District Court
for the District of Puerto Rico
facilities in Old San Juan. Ten law
schools from across the country will
be invited to participate in a mock
case under the Federal Rules of
Evidence.
The National Trial Competition was
established in 1975 to encourage
and strengthen students’ advocacy
skills through quality competition
and valuable interaction with
members of the bench and bar. The
program is designed to expose law
students to the nature of trial
practice and to serve as a
supplement to their education. The
competition location varies from
year to year.
The American Association for Justice
(formerly the American Trial Lawyers
Association) sponsors the National
Student Trial Advocacy Competition.
One of AAJ's goals is to inspire
http://www.prtrialadvocacy.com/
http://www.tyla.org/advocacy_ntc.html
http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/1734.htm
Competition
San Diego
Defense
Lawyers Mock
Trial
Competition
Oct
excellence in trial advocacy through
training and education for both law
students and practicing attorneys.
One way AAJ accomplishes this goal
is by sponsoring the National
Student Trial Advocacy Competition,
an annual nationwide mock trial
competition. This is an exceptional
opportunity for law students to
develop and practice their trial
advocacy skills before distinguished
members of the bar and bench.
This invitational mock trial
competition is hosted by the San
Diego Defense Lawyers, an
organization of lawyers engaged in
the defense of civil litigants. The
competition is held annually in San
Diego, CA.
http://www.sddl.org/