Moot Court: Mock Trial

Moot Court: Mock Trial - Professors Ed Kroll and Simon Whang

• Course Number: LAW-728
• Course Type: Experiential
• Credits: 3
• Enrollment Limit: 16
• Description: 

  Grow your trial advocacy skills. This is an advanced course for students who tryout and are accepted to the mock trial team. This practical skills course, taught by a former prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney, consists of lectures, demonstrations, and on-your-feet practice in small groups. Students will learn and hone all aspects of trial, including pre-trial motions, preparing a trial notebook, opening statement, evidence admission and objections, direct and cross examinations, and closing argument. The course culminates in students (in two-person teams) trying both sides of a criminal case in an actual courtroom at the Moot Court/Mock Trial competition. All students in this class will also have the opportunity participate in at least one inter-school mock trial competition.

  Class attendance and participation, including 3 mid- and late-term Saturday sessions, is mandatory.

• Co- or prerequisite: Evidence or Integrated Evidence and Trial Advocacy
• Evaluation Method: TBD
• Capstone: no
• WIE: no

Skill*: Trial Litigation

*Students may not earn more than six (6) credit hours in any one skill area