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Moot Court: Making Your Case and Pleasing the Court

Thomas A. Miller, Jonathan Caleb Dalton (Autoren)

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277 Seiten

2019
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
978-1-5249-9600-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Chapter 1: What is Moot Court?
1. Introduction to Appellate Cases
2. Moot Court Competition Format
3. Distinctions Between Moot Court and Mock Trial or Debate
Chapter 2: Legal Reasoning in Appellate Cases
1. Sources of Law
2. Standards of Review
3. Levels of Scrutiny
4. Gateway Tests
5. Other Constitutional Standards
6. Arguments Outside of Caselaw
Chapter 3: How to Read a Moot Court Problem
1. Reading the Facts of the Case
2. Reading the Caselaw
3. Issue Identification
Chapter 4: The Brief
1. Before You Write, Prepare
2. Use Each Substantive Section of a Brief as an Opportunity to Persuade
Chapter 5: Oral Argument
1. Preparation and Presentation – How to Prepare for an Oral Argument
2. The Opening
3. The Argument Itself
4. Use of Judges' Questions
5. Conclusion / Prayer for Relief
6. Special Issues Facing Petitioner's Counsel
7. Special Issues Facing Respondent's Counsel
8. Courtroom Decorum
9. Miscellaneous Issues and Dealing with the Unexpected

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2019
Verlagsort	Iowa
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-5249-9600-9 / 1524996009
ISBN-13	978-1-5249-9600-0 / 9781524996000
Zustand	Neuware