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The Honor Court consists of six elected judges, two for the first year class and two per upper class. [31] ASL also fields moot court teams that compete in national competitions. Students can audition for the team through an annual intra-school tournament that is composed of the Appellate Advocacy class in fall of the second year. [32]
The first competition was held at the City Bar's building in January 1950. Twelve law school teams debated the legality of "rainmaking," or the use by farmers of rainmaking devices to divert water from adjacent land. The program was formatted as a mock appeal, in order to develop the skills of appellate advocacy among law students. [2]
It evaluates the participants' skills in argument, evidence handling, and examination of witnesses but omits jury selection and strategic matters. Mock trial differs from moot court in that moot court practices appellate argument and so involves no handling of witnesses or evidence, but instead is an exercise in legal research and oral advocacy ...
The American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) is a professional association of trial lawyers from the United States and Canada.Founded in 1950, [1] the College is dedicated to maintaining and improving the standards of trial practice, especially trial advocacy, the administration of justice and the ethics of the profession.
The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers is a non-profit organization consisting of the Fellows who have been elected to the academy. It was founded in 1990 and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 1991. [1] Its mission is to "advance the highest standards and practices of appellate advocacy and to recognize outstanding appellate lawyers."
The Emory Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Project, the first largely student-run Supreme Court Clinic, started in Fall 2010. [5] The Jenner & Block Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School was established in 2016. [6]
JD students are required to take 90 semester hours of credit in order to graduate. The traditional J.D. program includes two years of legal research and writing classes, although students are allowed to choose between three capstone writing courses (Advanced Advocacy, Drafting for Litigation, and Transactional Drafting).
Piscataway School Board v. Taxman, 91 F.3d 1547 (3d Cir. 1996): Affirmative action in public hiring. Kaelin v. Globe Communications, 162 F.3d 1036 (3rd Cir. 1998): Magazine cover headline which "falsely insinuated" a criminal act may be grounds for a libel action even if the related article inside the magazine is not defamatory.