2024 Competition Details TBD

Beginning in 1949, the SSC is the oldest national moot court competition in the United States of its kind and welcomes competitors from across the country. The competition presents hypothetical appellate cases based on a variety of contemporary constitutional issues related to the First Amendment. In the past, the competition has contemplated situations such as political activity on social media, free speech on college campuses, high school dress codes, and national vaccine mandates.

The competition is hosted by Catholic Law’s Moot Court Board and co-sponsored by The Catholic University of America’s Center for Religious Liberty.

https://law.edu/students/journals-and-moot-court/moot-court/moot-court-competitions/sutherland-cup/index.html 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition is an annual event honoring Saul Lefkowitz, whose entire distinguished career was dedicated to the development of trademark and unfair competition law.

The Competition introduces law students to important issues arising in U.S. trademark and unfair competition law. Students develop their brief writing and oral advocacy skills in a mock courtroom experience.

It’s open to teams of students from U.S. accredited law schools. Approximately 80 teams of law students participate each year.

https://www.inta.org/about/awards-competitions/saul-lefkowitz-moot-court-competition/ 

2024 Competition Details TBD

In 2016, Notre Dame Law School hosted the inaugural Notre Dame National Appellate Advocacy Tournament for Religious Freedom. It was established to bring together competitors, scholars, and practitioners to engage in legal dialogue on a religious freedom topic.

Every fall, teams from law schools across the country participate in the competition and address challenging questions involving the First Amendment as they argue before a mock Supreme Court of the United States. The Religious Freedom Tournament is entirely student-run by members of the Moot Court Board and is typically held at Notre Dame Law School in the McCartan Courtroom.

https://ndmootcourt.com/religious-freedom-tournament/ 

2024 Competition Details TBD

Named after the drafter of the Model Penal Code and hosted by the University of Buffalo School of Law, the annual Herbert Wechsler National Criminal Moot Court Competition focuses on topics in substantive criminal law. Problems address the constitutionality and interpretation of federal and state criminal statutes as well as general issues in the doctrine of federal and state criminal law.

https://www.law.buffalo.edu/beyond/competitions/wechsler.html 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Frank A. Schreck Gaming Law Moot Court Competition is hosted by William S. Boyd School of Law’s Society of Advocates Moot Court Competition Team, and the UNLV Gaming Law Journal.

The Competition focuses on emerging issues at the intersection of gaming law and regulation. Competitors will hone their appellate advocacy skills before prominent jurists and practitioners in the gaming capital of the world: Las Vegas, Nevada!

https://law.unlv.edu/events/schreck-competition-2024 

2024 Competition Details TBD

The UCLA Williams Institute hosts the premier national moot court competition dedicated exclusively to sexual orientation and gender identity law. The competition provides an opportunity for law student competitors to write an appellate brief on a current legal topic and argue the case before a panel of judges.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/programs/moot-court-competition/about-moot-court/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Cardozo FAME Center Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition is a new annual competition open to all law schools and will be held in person at Cardozo Law School.

For more information about the FAME Center, click here.

To register, click here.

For information about the rules of the competition, click here.

https://cardozo.yu.edu/moot-court-honor-society 

2024 Competition Details TBD

The UCLA Disability Law Journal recognizes the best student scholarship in the field of Disability Law. Submissions should focus on a cutting-edge legal issue affecting individuals and communities with disabilities. The winning Note will be published in the forthcoming sixth volume of the Journal.

The competition is open to all students enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school during the 2023-2024 academic year. Submissions must follow standard Note format, including Bluebook (21st ed.) citation form, and must be in English. Entries must be no longer than 60 single- sided pages with one-inch margins and 14-point Arial typeface, double-spaced. The page limit includes footnotes. Submissions should not have been previously published or scheduled for publication. Submissions are promise exclusive to the Disability Law Journal until January 25, 2024.

For more information:

Contact Alexis Russell at
(847) 452-7221
Russell2024@lawnet.ucla.edu

2025 Competition Details TBD

Started in 2006, NYU’s National Immigration Law Competition (ILC) is the NYU Moot Court Board’s annual external moot court competition, open to teams from ABA-accredited law schools other than NYU Law. The ILC focuses on cutting-edge issues in the field of immigration law and is judged by panels of distinguished NYU alumni and legal practitioners from throughout New York. The final round is judged by federal appellate and district court judges.

https://nyumootcourt.org/ilc-help/about-ilc/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The William B. Spong Moot Court Tournament is William & Mary Law School’s signature invitational moot court tournament that brings together top-ranked schools and judges from across the nation to debate current constitutional issues. The first invitational tournament was held in 1972 and rapidly became one of the leading moot court tournaments in the mid-Atlantic region, regularly drawing attendees from law schools across the United States.

https://law.wm.edu/studentlife/studentorganizations/spong/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

Each spring, the New York Law School Moot Court Association administers the Robert F. Wagner National Labor and Employment Law Moot Court Competition. For over 40 years, as many as 50 schools from across the country have competed in this prestigious event.

The Wagner Competition is the nation’s largest student-run moot court competition and the premier national competition dedicated exclusively to the areas of labor and employment law. The Moot Court Association sponsors this competition in honor of the late United States Senator, Robert F. Wagner, our distinguished alumnus.

https://www.nyls.edu/academics/specialty-areas/competition-teams/moot-court-association/annual-robert-f-wagner-national-labor-and-employment-law-moot-court-competition/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

Sponsored by the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, Inc. (ACEBC®) and The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, this competition will feature 28 teams from across the country facing off in Washington, D.C. for $4,500 in prizes on March 1-2, 2024.

Named in memory of Nell Hennessey—a fearless advocate for the rights of employee benefit plan participants and retirees—this unique competition promotes and recognizes the finest oral and written advocacy on critical issues in employee benefits appellate litigation.

Registration closes when the 28-team limit is reached. Find more information here.

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition is widely recognized as one of the nation’s preeminent moot court competitions. The competition promotes and recognizes the finest oral and written advocacy on significant issues in bankruptcy practice.

Jointly sponsored by St. John’s University School of Law and the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), the competition is named in memory of St. John’s alumnus, former ABI Director and former Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein. ABI is the largest multidisciplinary membership organization devoted to research and education on insolvency issues. St. John’s is a leader in bankruptcy education and offers the premier LL.M. in bankruptcy law.

https://www.stjohns.edu/law/academics/centers/32nd-annual-duberstein-bankruptcy-moot-court-competition

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Cybercrimes Moot Court Competition at UCLA School of Law is an annual external moot court competition open to all law schools, exploring cutting-edge issues in the field of cyber law. The Cybercrimes Moot Court Competition will feature an esteemed panel of renowned cyber law experts to judge competitors’ oral advocacy and brief writing skills. This year’s competition will be held in person.

Please direct any questions or concerns to the organizers of the Cybersecurity Moot Court Competition: Maria Cafferata, Nick Castellano, Patrick Begian, and Alyssa Archuleta Stolmack at cybercrimes@lawnet.ucla.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!

https://law.ucla.edu/life-ucla-law/student-organizations/moot-court-honors-program 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Competition is a unique trilingual (English, Portuguese, and Spanish) event established to train law students on how to use the Inter-American human rights legal system as a legitimate forum for redressing human rights violations. Since its inception in 1995, it has trained over 4900 students and faculty participants from over 365 universities from the Americas and beyond. Written on a cutting-edge topic currently debated within the Inter-American system, the hypothetical case operates as the basis of the competition, and students argue the merits of this case by writing legal memoranda and preparing oral arguments for presentation in front of human rights experts acting as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

https://www.american.edu/wcl/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/moot/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The UC Davis Asylum & Refugee Law National Moot Court Competition is the only competition in the nation devoted exclusively to the topic of asylum and refugee law. It is also the only immigration law moot court competition on the West Coast. The competition provides law students from across the country the opportunity to participate in a hypothetical appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Competitors will write a brief as either respondent or petitioner on an issue related to asylum and refugee law. Shortly after submitting their briefs, students will participate in oral arguments. Students’ briefs and oral arguments will be judged by prominent judges, attorneys and scholars who specialize in the areas of immigration law and/or appellate advocacy.

https://students.law.ucdavis.edu/mootcourt/asylum/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition is held in honor of Judge Kaufman, a Fordham alumnus who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for many years, including seven years as Chief Judge. The Competition offers teams the opportunity to test appellate advocacy skills before leading jurists, securities regulators, academics, and practitioners.

https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/life-at-fordham-law/student-life/student-competitions/moot-court/competitions/kaufman-competition/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition focuses on timely issues of criminal procedure and criminal law. Held at the Law School in the heart of Newark, New Jersey, the competition consists of over forty law schools from across the country. 

Each team may be comprised of two or three students who must all participate in the writing of the brief. Each team will write one brief, representing the party of its choice. Each team will argue both sides during preliminary rounds of oral argument. The problem will be distributed to all participants by January 29, 2024. The briefs must be received via email by February 23, 2024. Teams are permitted to begin oral argument practice prior to their brief submission.

https://law.shu.edu/Students/academics/legal-skills-training/gibbons-competition.html 

2025 Competition Details TBD

Several aspects of the Thurgood Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition make it one of the premier moot court competitions in the country. All of the individuals who serve as judges in the competition are actual judges, practitioners, or scholars. This reinforces the “real world” experience for competitors. Competitors have an opportunity at the awards reception that immediately follows the final round of the competition to network with federal judges and practitioners, who travel from around the country to attend the Federal Bar Association’s Leadership Summit.

https://www.fedbar.org/younger-lawyers-division/yld/thurgood-marshall-memorial-moot-court-competition/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Michigan State University College of Law hosts the Gender and Sexuality Moot Court Competition (GSMCC) annually each Spring. The competition provides a unique opportunity for law students to compete in two person teams and write an appellate brief on a current legal topic focusing on sexuality, gender, and the law. Teams will argue the case before a panel of judges. Each team will argue a minimum of three competition rounds and be provided with scoresheets and feedback on the written competition brief and oral arguments for each round.

https://www.law.msu.edu/gender-sexuality/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition is named in honor of the late Jerome Prince, renowned evidence scholar, teacher, and author of Prince on Evidence, who served as Dean of Brooklyn Law School from 1953 to 1971.

The competition is hosted in the spring by the Moot Court Honor Society on Brooklyn Law School’s campus in the heart of Brooklyn Heights. The Competition provides law students from across the nation the opportunity to write and argue an appellate brief that addresses evidentiary issues in a contemporary context.

https://www.brooklaw.edu/Academics/Moot/Prince-Competition 

2025 Competition Details TBD

Touro Law Center was pleased to host our Tenth Annual National Moot Court Competition in Law & Religion. This year, our competition was held in person at Touro Law Center on Sunday, April 7 & Monday, April 8, 2024. The final round of the competition took place at the Alfonse D’Amato Federal Courthouse, located directly across the street from Touro Law Center in Central Islip, NY.

Awards were presented to individuals and teams for first and second place, top three best briefs, and top six best oralists.

https://www.tourolaw.edu/mootcourt/2024_competition 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Annual National Moot Court Competition, co-sponsored by the New York City Bar Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers, celebrates its upcoming 73rd Competition. National Finals will be held over a four day span from January/February 2025.

https://www.nycbar.org/member-committee-career-services/career-development/law-students-overview/the-national-moot-court-competition/ 

Timeline Overview

2025 Competition Details TBD

For 40 years, the Moot Court Committee of the Young Lawyers Section of The Chicago Bar Association (“CBA”) has hosted an Annual Moot Court Competition. Participants from ABA-accredited law schools from around the country have the opportunity to hone their research, writing, and oral advocacy skills along with approximately 30 other teams. CBA members serve as volunteer brief graders and oral argument judges to give participants a real taste of courtroom practice.

https://www.chicagobar.org/chicagobar/CBA/YLS_Students/Law_Student_Involvement/Moot_Court_Competition/CBA/YLS_Law_Students/Moot_Court_Welcome.aspx?hkey=7dcefcf7-abd0-4dbe-8bdb-ee089ef40f56 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The 24th Annual Leroy R. Hassell Sr. National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition will be held Thursday, November 21 through Saturday, November 23, 2024. Details regarding the competition problem will be released this Summer.

This annual competition is named in honor of the late former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Chief Justice Hassell dedicated his life to the fight for justice for the Commonwealth’s citizens. During his distinguished career, the former Chief Justice championed constitutional rights. He was a leader in equality becoming the first African American Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.

https://www.regent.edu/school-of-law/about-regent-law/hassell-moot-court-competition/ 

2025 Competition Details TBD

The Burton D. Wechsler National First Amendment Moot Court Competition is a renowned tournament that consistently attracts top competitors from across the country. This competition has presented the opportunity to argue cutting-edge cases in front of prominent judges in the nation’s capital for twenty-eight years.

Registration: Early bird registration is from May 28, 2024 to July 2, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET; General registration is from July 3, 2024 to August 28, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET.

Problem Release: August 30, 2024

Brief Deadline: October 11, 2024 at 11:59pm ET

Competition: November 01-03, 2024

https://app.registrationguru.net/#!/portal?eventId=712964e2-e74c-4c66-afb9-d862c3aff31a 

2025 Competition Details TBD

Southern Illinois University School of Law, along with supporting sponsors the American College of Legal Medicine and the American Health Law Association, is pleased to announce the Thirty-Second Annual National Health Law Moot Court Competition. The Competition, held at Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, is one of the premier moot court experiences in the nation and attracts teams representing law schools from throughout the country to argue contemporary issues of health law and policy.

https://law.siu.edu/programs/moot-court/health-law-competition.php 

The National Native American Law Student Association (NNALSA) Moot Court Competition is the only national law school competition that focuses on issues relating to Tribal Nations and federal Indian law. The competition simulates an appellate argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. Participants work in teams of two students and collaborate on a written appellate brief and the subsequent oral argument.

The 2025 competition will take place in Las Vegas (dates to be announced Sept. 3).

https://law.unlv.edu/nnalsa-moot-court-competition-2025 

The 2024 National Criminal Procedure Tournament will take place on November 15-17, 2024 in San Diego, CA. 

If you have any questions or need additional information, please email sdcrimpro@gmail.com.

https://sites.google.com/view/sdcrimpro2024?usp=share_link 

The Judge Thomas Tang and Dr. Pearl Tang Moot Court Competition is an appellate advocacy competition sponsored annually by the NAPABA Law Foundation, an IRC § 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable, and educational affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). The purpose of this Competition is to help law students develop advocacy skills and to foster legal talents of the future.

The 2024 Judge Thomas Tang and Dr. Pearl Tang Moot Court Competition will have in-person and virtual options for regionals, and an in-person National Competition coinciding with the 2024 NAPABA Convention in Seattle, Washington on November 8-9, 2024.

All regional briefs will be due on September 6, 2024.

https://www.napabalawfoundation.org/ttmc 

The Emory Moot Court Society is excited to announce the Eighteenth Annual Civil Rights and Liberties Competition (CRAL) at Emory University School of Law. CRAL embodies our Society’s commitment to academic excellence and social justice. We hope this competition continues to inspire each participant to reflect upon the role civil rights and civil liberties serve in our society as well as how we can use our positions as advocates to further champion civil rights and liberties.

This year’s competition will be taking place on October 18-20, 2024. The competition will be in person.

https://law.emory.edu/student-life/student-organizations/moot-court-society/cral-competition.html 

The NVLMCC is the nation’s premier moot court focusing on veterans law. Hosted close to Veterans Day each fall in Washington, DC, the NVLMCC brings together teams of two students from around the country to argue cutting-edge veterans law issues before panels of distinguished practitioners and judges. The NVLMCC prides itself on the authenticity of the problems and the quality of its judges. The record on appeal and the documents included look like what would be found in a real veterans law case. The judges for the briefs and the oral arguments are drawn from the ranks of experienced veterans law practitioners. In particular, the final round of each NVLMCC is typically presided over by a panel of judges from the CAVC in their courtroom. Few moot court competitions can boast an experience that is so true to actual practice.

https://www.nvlmcc.org/

Registration open now, and due by Sept. 16, 2024

Problem released Sept. 19

Brief due Oct. 21

Competition to take place Nov. 9-10, 2024 

The Pace Environmental Competition is hosted by Pace Law School and simulates an appellate level argument between three parties. Each year the competition focuses on relevant issues concerning environmental law. The competition is takes place at Pace Law School in White Plains, NY.

https://www.pace.edu/law/academics/environmental-law-program/programs-and-partnerships/national-environmental-law-moot-1 

Registration open now through Oct. 1, 2024

Competition will take place Feb. 20-22, 2025

The first task for the students chosen for the McGee team(s) will be to write an appellate brief. The brief must be written by the student members of the team(s) without assistance from faculty or others. The moot court problem is scheduled to be released in late October 2024. The due date for filing and serving the brief is January 2025.

Once the brief is filed and served, students will then develop oral arguments with the assistance of faculty coaching ahead of the preliminary oral arguments in March 2025. Team members should plan to invest a significant amount of time each week working on the brief and preparing for oral arguments. Students must have completed their first year to be considered. Blended students are encouraged to participate.

https://mitchellhamline.edu/competitions/competitions-and-moot-courts/william-e-mcgee-national-civil-rights-moot-court-competition/ 

The Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition honors three former Chief Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court and focuses on constitutional law issues.

Because the competition seeks to honor as many students as possible for their achievements in advocacy, numerous awards are presented for the best team performances (quarterfinalists, semifinalists and finalists), best briefs (best two petitioner and respondent briefs), and best oral advocates (top three in preliminary rounds and best in final round). The championship team’s name will be engraved on the Chief Justices’ Cup which is permanently displayed at Elon Law. The winning law school receives a replica of the Chief Justices’ Cup that it may keep and display at its own school. Each member of the championship team also receives a plaque commemorating the achievement.

https://www.elon.edu/u/law/academics/experiential/moot-court/national-competition/ 

The National Moot Court Competition brings together up to 32 teams of law students from the nation’s top law schools to argue a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Students will be challenged to brief and argue their position creatively and persuasively. $60,000 in scholarship funds will be awarded to the winning teams.

The competition will take place in March 2025 in Seattle, WA, and registration is due by October 25, 2024.

https://mitchellhamline.edu/competitions/competitions-and-moot-courts/uvaldo-herrera-national-moot-court-competition/ 

ALA members act as judges, with actual Appellate Court Justices judging the semi-final and final rounds. The competition is set to take place on November 1-2, 2024.

https://applawyers.org/page-1148447 

The ABA Law Student Division National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) is a moot court competition that emphasizes the development of oral advocacy skills through a realistic appellate advocacy experience. Moot court competitors participate in a hypothetical appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The competition involves writing a brief as either respondent or petitioner and then arguing the case in front of the mock court.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_students/events/competitions/naac/

Team registration is now open

Registration deadline is 11/1/2024

Competition will take place 2/13-2/15/2025 in Philadelphia

An alternative to traditional moot court competitions, the Law Student Tax Challenge (LSTC) is organized by the Section’s Young Lawyers Forum. The LSTC asks two-person teams of students to solve a complex business problem that might arise in everyday tax practice. Teams are initially evaluated on two criteria: a memorandum to a senior partner and a letter to a client explaining the result. Based on the written work product, six teams from the J.D. Division and four teams from the LL.M. Division receive a free trip to the Tax Section’s Midyear Meeting, where each team presents its submission before a panel of judges consisting of the country’s top tax practitioners and government officials, including tax court judges. The competition is a great way for law students to showcase their knowledge in a real-world setting and gain valuable exposure to the tax law community.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/taxation/about/awards-initiatives/law-student-tax-challenge/ 

The 2024 competition will be held live, in Tallahassee, on Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9, with an awards dinner and ceremony to follow. The rounds will be held in the Advocacy Center, which was previously home to Florida’s First District Court of Appeal. The final round will even be live-streamed. We will host a welcome reception for all competitors on Thursday, November 7. This welcome reception will be attended by lawyers and policy specialists who focus on aging and elder law issues, including a special guest speaker. The competition problem will be mailed to the teams in August 2024.

This year, we’re thrilled to team up with the incredible AARP Foundation! AARP Foundation, a charitable affiliate of AARP, creates and advances effective solutions to reduce poverty for and with older adults. AARP Foundation Litigation advocates for systemic change in federal and state courts nationwide to advance the legal rights and interests of people 50 and older, particularly vulnerable individuals and those living with low income. We are so excited to work with this wonderful organization to raise awareness about issues affecting older adults and career opportunities for future lawyers focused on social justice advocacy. Thanks to the AARP Foundation, $20,000 in monetary prizes will be awarded to the top teams and participants in the competition.

https://law.fsu.edu/claude-pepper-elder-law-moot-court-competition 

The Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Competition was created to honor the late Associate Justice of the New York Court of Appeals. Albany Law School’s Moot Court Board is especially indebted to Judge Gabrielli for his help in creating and promoting the Anthony V. Cardona ’70 Moot Court Program. Schools from across the nation are invited to send participants. As the host of this event, Albany Law does not compete in this competition. The competition, which is an appellate advocacy competition, focuses on issues surrounding family law.

The Competition will be held February 28th - March 1st 2025 at Albany Law School. The Competition Problem will be available December 2, 2024. All registration materials must be completed and postmarked by November 7, 2024.

https://www.albanylaw.edu/student-experience-support/domenick-l-gabrielli-national-family-law-moot-court-competition

Registration is now open for the 2025 National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law. Law schools may register up to two teams. To register, click here.

Dates: Friday, March 14 and Saturday, March 15, 2025

Location: Franklin County Government Center (Friday) & The Supreme Court of Ohio (Saturday)

Topic: Transgender and Child Welfare Law

Problem Release Date: Friday, November 8, 2024

Briefs Due: Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Rules: View here

Q&A: Will be available soon.

Registration is open now with limited spots!

https://www.caplawmcmt.com/moot-court/national-child-welfare-adoption-law-competition 

2025 Competition Details TBD

First organized in 2009, the National Veterans Law Moot Court Competition (NVLMCC) is sponsored annually by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC), the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Bar Association, and the George Washington University Law School (GW Law). The NVLMCC is the nation’s premier moot court focusing on veterans law. Hosted close to Veterans Day each fall in Washington, DC, the NVLMCC brings together teams of two students from around the country to argue cutting-edge veterans law issues before panels of distinguished practitioners and judges. The NVLMCC prides itself on the authenticity of the problems and the quality of its judges. The record on appeal and the documents included look like what would be found in a real veterans law case. The judges for the briefs and the oral arguments are drawn from the ranks of experienced veterans law practitioners. In particular, the final round of each NVLMCC is typically presided over by a panel of judges from the CAVC in their courtroom. Few moot court competitions can boast an experience that is so true to actual practice. We hope you will consider participating.

https://www.nvlmcc.org/ 

Mardi Gras Invitational is the only annual moot court appellate competition that focuses on contemporary legal problems confronting the sports industry. The competition draws the best law schools and moot court programs in the country and takes place during one of the most exciting times in New Orleans, Mardi Gras.

https://law.tulane.edu/mardi-gras-moot-court-invitational 

The European Law Moot Court is an annual international competition that is held between University teams of students who have an interest in European Union Law.

It is organized by the ELMC Society, founded in 1988. It is today considered the most prestigious moot court within the field of European Union Law and one of the most important moot court competitions in the world.

The case, as every year, is published on the below website on September 1st. 80 to 100 student teams from European & USA Universities register and send us their applicant & defendant written pleadings until the end of November.

The results of this written phase are published on our website on January 15th (The date has been modified during the Covid pandemic).

Every year, 48 teams -12 per Regional Final-, composed of 3 or 4 students and their Coach, designated only by their secret numbers, are qualified for the oral phase.

Four Regional Finals are held in European and US Universities over the four weekends of February. From Thursday afternoon to Sunday morning, students from dozens of nationalities face constant questions from our Judges. What better way to choose the best litigators, in substance and form, who will have the unique opportunity to plead before the real Judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union?

https://europeanlawmootcourt.eu/ 

The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot is a competition for law students to foster the study and practice of international commercial sales law and arbitration. Students from all countries are eligible (students from 88 countries participated in the 30th Vis Moot). The Moot involves a dispute arising out of a contract of sale between two countries that are party to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The contract provides that any dispute that might arise is to be settled by arbitration in Danubia, a country that has enacted the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration and is a party to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The arbitral rules to be applied rotate yearly among the arbitration rules of co-sponsoring institutions of the Moot.

The 2025 Competition is set to take place in Vienna from April 11-17, 2025. 

https://www.vismoot.org/ 

The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the world’s largest moot court competition, with participants from 700 law schools in 100 countries and jurisdictions. The Competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice in Washington DC, the judicial organ of the United Nations.

https://www.ilsa.org/about-jessup/ 

Team Registration will open August 2, 2024

September 16, 2024: Anticipated Release of the Jessup Problem

November 22, 2024: Registration deadline

The Honorable John R. Brown served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit as one of the nation’s most prominent admiralty judges from 1955 until his death in 1993. Shortly after his death and in his honor, The University of Texas School of Law established the “Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition,” an interscholastic appellate advocacy competition. Each year, the Competition is held under the joint sponsorship of The University of Texas School of Law and a local host school.

Registration for the 32nd Annual Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition is now open. We look forward to hosting 32 teams in New Orleans, LA. The tournament will run from March 27-29, 2025. Please direct all questions to the competition director at judgejohnrbrowntournament@gmail.com.

https://law.utexas.edu/advocacy/admiralty-competition/ 

The Kimball R. Anderson and Karen Gatsis Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism at the University of Illinois College of Law offers training in a wide variety of advocacy skills, including trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, negotiations, and alternative dispute resolution while providing College of Law students with innovative classes and programs relating to the professional responsibility obligations attendant to client advocacy. Consistent with the Anderson Center’s mission is the guiding principle that legal professionals must always be professional and ethical in their advocacy. The Anderson Center Seventh Circuit Moot Court Competition explores this critical intersection between advocacy and professionalism by utilizing a unique problem comprised of issues involving both substantive law and professional ethics. This competition is open to all ABA accredited law schools in the Seventh Circuit. Held entirely in Chicago March 6-8, 2025, this round-robin competition begins with preliminary rounds on Friday. Advancing teams will compete in single elimination semifinal and final rounds on Saturday.

Registration closes on December 6, 2024, or whenever available slots have filled up –whichever comes first.

https://anderson-scmc.law.illinois.edu/ 

For over a quarter-century, The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law has hosted the competition, which features an original appellate problem written by a panel of experienced telecommunications and technology attorneys. Competition briefs and oral arguments will be judged by private and government practitioners in the field. Each year, the competition subject is “ripped from the headlines” of current telecommunications, technology, and intellectual property issues, such as potentially illegal jamming of unmanned aerial vehicles, the legality of a contact tracing app’s across state lines, consumer privacy of personal information, copyright protection of pre-1972 musical performances, and enforcement of broadcast indecency standards. 

https://www.law.edu/students/journals-and-moot-court/moot-court/moot-court-competitions/national-telecommunications-and-technology-competition.html 

• 2024 - 2025 Theme: Subsistence Use and Trophy Hunting
• Rules - International Finals
• Record

Information on Regional and National Rounds may be found at the link below. Additional details will be updated as they become available.

https://www.stetson.edu/law/international/iemcc/ 

The Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court competition is named for the late Honorable Giles Sutherland Rich, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The competition is an annual inter-law school event sponsored by the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). There is no entry fee for the competition. The competition is made possible through the volunteer service of attorneys, judges, and AIPLA professionals.

The Deadline schedule for 2024-2025 has not been announced but will be closely aligned with last year’s schedule (can be found at the link below).

The Moot Court Problem is scheduled to be released mid-to-late-September 2024.

https://www.aipla.org/resources/programs-awards/moot-court-competition 

The International Institute of Space Law’s Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Committee and the Space Court Foundation have signed an agreement whereby SCF is the exclusive organizer, fundraiser, manager, and promoter of the North American Regional Competition. The Lachs Moot is an international moot court competition with five Regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific. Over 100 law schools from around the world participate in this prestigious competition each year.

The North American Regional Competition is set to take place in Washington DC from March 27-28, 2025. 

https://www.spacecourtfoundation.org/lachsmoot/ 

The Tax Section of The Florida Bar hosts National Tax Moot Court Competitions for students from law schools across the country to demonstrate their written brief and oral argument skills while networking with attorneys. The next moot court competition is March 6–8, 2025, at Stetson University College of Law.

The Florida Bar Tax Section sponsors the National Tax Moot Court Competition on an annual basis and it is limited to sixteen (16) teams from law schools throughout the country. Schools are allowed to enter more than one team only if less than sixteen schools register. Each team shall consist of two or three students, all of whom must be full time law students at the time of the competition. Teams will be allowed entry on a first come, first served basis upon receipt of both the completed registration form and payment of the entry fees.

Please contact the Tax Section’s Program Administrator, Whitney Bledsoe, at wbledsoe@floridabar.org for more details.

https://floridataxlawyers.org/new-tax-lawyers/students/national-tax-moot-court-competition/ 

Hosted by the WVU College of Law Moot Court Board, this competition is geared toward any law student desiring to work in the field of Energy and Sustainable Development. 

Competing in this event will test your skills and provide an invaluable opportunity to meet and interact with other law students interested in energy and sustainability as well as industry professionals and government regulators.

Competition: March 6-8, 2025

Registration Opens: August 28, 2024

Registration Closes: TBD

https://energycomp.law.wvu.edu/ 

The International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Competition was established by Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in 2004 as the world’s first moot court competition based on the law and procedures of the first permanent international tribunal dedicated to the prosecution of international criminal offenses. Today, this prestigious annual competition at Haub Law serves as a Regional Qualifying Round for the global IBA ICCMCC.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Competition is held each spring at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in White Plains, NY.

SAVE THE DATE for the 2025 I.C.C. Moot: Saturday, March 8–Sunday, March 9, 2025

Further information to come.

https://www.pace.edu/law/academics/experiential-learning/advocacy-program/moot-court-competitions/international-criminal 

The Clara Barton International Humanitarian Law Competition is a simulation-based, experiential legal competition designed to expose rising professionals to the practice of IHL and to real world challenges facing IHL practitioners during armed conflict.

During the Competition, participants will engage in a variety of practical role-playing exercises, during which they will be asked to assume various professional roles and accomplish a wide range of tasks reflective of those performed by practitioners in the field. Unlike traditional moot court competitions, participants will explore the application of the law through fictional, but realistic case studies of armed conflict which continue to evolve throughout the Competition, offering participants a dynamic and creative atmosphere in which to explore complex legal issues.

The Competition will test participants’ knowledge of international humanitarian law and public international law, as well as their ability to present, advocate for, and defend legal positions to a diverse range of stakeholders in different simulated environments.

The Clara Barton IHL Competition is open to students currently pursuing Juris Doctor (J.D.), Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), or Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees at law schools and military academies and institutions. While not required, prior study in public international law is highly recommended. Teams are composed of three individuals representing a single institution.

https://www.clarabartoncompetition.org/ 

The Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy is pleased to host the Annual L. Edward Bryant, Jr. National Health Law Transactional Competition on April 11, 2025. The Competition presentations will be held in person at Corboy Law Center, 25 E. Pearson, Chicago, IL 60611. This year’s competition will include prizes awarded to the top three teams by the American Health Lawyers Association.

The Transactional Competition exposes law students to the core competencies of the corporate and regulatory practice of health care law. Students will apply transactional lawyering skills and regulatory analysis by providing legal advice on a potential business opportunity to a hypothetical health care client. Three-person teams of JD students prepare a legal memorandum that summarizes their legal and business advice for the client.

https://www.luc.edu/law/currentstudents/competitions/nationalhealthlawtransactionalcompetition/