Moot Court

Moot Court Courses

International Commercial Arbitration – Moot (2 cr.) D/N 753 Participants work on the case provided for the Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. The most qualified participants register as the Robert H. McKinney School of Law team and travel to Vienna, Austria to represent the school in the orals.

Intramural Moot Court Competition (1 cr.) D/N 746 Students research and prepare a brief and oral arguments in preparation for participation in the intramural moot court competition. Full-time students who wish to become members of a national moot court team, and subsequently serve as a national team coach or as a Moot Court Board member, should take Intramural Moot Court Competition during their second year. Full-time students who take Intramural Moot Court Competition in their third year may be considered for national teams during their final semester. Part-time students who wish to become members of a national moot court team, and subsequently serve as a national team coach or as a Moot Court Board member, should take Intramural Moot Court Competition no later than their third year. Part-time students who take Intramural Moot Court Competition in their fourth year may be considered for national teams during their final semester. Intramural Moot Court does not satisfy the experiential learning requirement. (More info about Moot Court can be found at: https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/practice/moot-court/)

Moot Court (1 cr.) D/N 750 These competitions are open to members of the Order of Barristers or to other students at the discretion of the Moot Court Advisor. National competition teams include students who coach the teams and students who prepare briefs and present oral arguments in regional and national rounds of the competitions against teams from other law schools. National Moot Court competitions do not satisfy the experiential learning requirement.

Moot Court Board (1 cr.) D/N 748 Students who have excelled in the Intramural Moot Court Competition are eligible for the Moot Court Board. Members taking this course for credit usually include the chief justice and the justices in charge of the Intramural Moot Court Competition. These justices are selected by the outgoing Moot Court Board from the members of the Order of Barristers. With the faculty advisor’s permission, other members of the Moot Court Society may earn 1 credit hour by working a minimum of 60 hours in moot court activities. (More info about Moot Court can be found at: https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/practice/moot-court/)