Moot Court: Making Your Case & Pleasing the Court

Whether one participates for a semester, a year, or through your entire collegiate or high school experience, the skills honed as a moot courter will increase their ability to analyze situations, understand diverse viewpoints, and persuasively present their positions to others. Based on the authors' experience and success in moot court competitions, Moot Court: Making Your Case and Pleasing the Court prepares readers for intercollegiate or intramural moot court competition where teams on both sides of a lawsuit present their case via written and oral argument to a panel of justices. Moot Court gives readers a high-level overview of moot court, legal reasoning in appellate cases, strategies to read a moot court problem, insight into writing the brief, and instruction on crafting a successful oral argument. Moot Court includes an online video recording tool designed to provide feedback to help students analyze their oral arguments. In addition, learning outcomes, key terms, real-world examples, tips boxes, cases, references, and overviews are included throughout the publication.