APPELLATE ADVOCACY

Appellate Advocacy teaches appellate practice and process and develops students' skills and judgment as writers and oral advocates. Students will learn fundamental principles of appellate practice and procedure, including standards of review, preservation of issues for appeal, and creation of an appellate record. Students will also receive advanced training in written and oral advocacy techniques. Students will prepare several pieces of work product that an appellate lawyer would create in the course of representing a client on appeal, culminating in an appellate merits brief and oral argument.