Supervised Moot Court

1 unit

A student may receive one credit for participation in an external moot court competition through Supervised Moot Court. In order to receive credit, a student must secure a full-time faculty member as an advisor, prepare an appellate brief of passing quality (minimum 10 pages per student), present a minimum of two oral arguments of passing quality, and attend two mandatory seminar sessions on appellate brief writing and appellate argument. Supervised Moot Court is graded on a credit/no credit basis and does not fulfill the research and writing requirement. Approval forms are found at http://law.wustl.edu/Registrar/index.asp?id=2131. The full-time faculty member who reviews the brief and critiques the preparation for oral argument is limited to supervising no more than six JD students per year in Supervised Research, Supervised Practicum, or Supervised Moot Court. [Students should keep in mind the limitations regarding credit toward their degree for competition work (as a participant or board member): 1) a maximum of 4 total credits from competitions; 2) only one competition per semester.] Interested students are expected to read Faculty Rule G (7), found at http://www.law.wustl.edu/students/documents/facultyrules0910.pdf.. [Note for JD students: these credits count toward the 19 maximum credits a J.D. student can take in non-law classes and law classes without a classroom component (for students graduating with exactly 86 units).] 1 unit.