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Under the typical curriculum for first-year students, moot court competition is a requirement. The mock trials are administered by upperclassmen who advise the new students on how to write and defend legal arguments...
...proposal to revise the organization of the moot court came partly in response to criticism that the student-run moot court did not generate enough student and faculty interaction, said Mark Levy, a third-year law student who worked with Nesson to develop the course proposal...
Students who have participated in moot court, called the Ames Competition at the Law School, said the new class should improve student's rhetorical skills because a faculty member will be more critical of their performance...
Last week Nesson began teaching his course to 14 members of the Board of Student Advisers, the group which oversees the moot court competition. The course will begin in the spring for all first-year students in section two, one of four randomly divided student sections...
...Moot court competitions date back to 1820 at the Law School...