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The Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition is a student-run program in written and oral appellate advocacy. The majority of the second-year class participates in this annual competition, which is also open to third-year students who have not previously competed.View Participants for additional information.
Participating students have the opportunity to:
Indiana Law alumni and other legal practitioners and judges from around the country donate their time and insights by serving as competition judges.
From the nearly 150 students who enter the fall rounds, thirty-two competitors are chosen to advance to the spring rounds based on their combined written and oral advocacy scores. Briefs are scored by students on the Sherman Minton Moot Court Board and oral arguments are scored solely by visiting judges. Congratulations to the Fall 2009 Octofinalists and Honors Recipients!
Read the competition Problem and Rules.
*Sponsored by Bose McKinney & Evans LLP
The 2009-2010 Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition is open to the following students enrolled at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law-Bloomington: (1) current second year law students; (2) joint-degree students who have not previously participated in the Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition; and (3) current third year law students who did not previously participate in the Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition because they studied abroad.
If you intend to participate in the Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition and have not already sent an email to the Moot Court Board at lawmoot@indiana.edu, please do so as soon as possible. Those students who have already indicated their intent to participate are guaranteed a spot in the 2009-2010 Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition. Students who indicate their intent to participate after the first day of Fall classes (8/26) cannot be guaranteed a spot in the competition and will be admitted, on a first come first serve basis, if there are available spots.
All competitors who have expressed their intent to participate will receive an email from the Moot Court Board on August 2, 2009 confirming that they are enrolled in the 2009-2010 Competition. If you plan to participate in the Competition and for some reason did not receive this confirmation email, please email lawmoot@indiana.edu immediately.
Each judge serves as a member of a panel for student oral arguments set in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourteenth Circuit.
Your service as a judge will be of tremendous benefit to our students. Judges will receive a bench brief before oral arguments that concisely outlines the current applicable law and suggests questions for each side. Moot Court Board members can answer any questions that you might have about the topic or the scope of the issues in advance of arguments. View the FAQ for Judges for additional information.
The Moot Court Board will begin contacting alumni, local practitioners and those who have participated as judges in prior competitions in late July and will continue through August and early September. If you are interested in judging, have any questions about serving as a judge, or questions about the Competition in general, please do not hesitate to contact our Executive Judge Coordinators at judges@indiana.edu, or faculty advisor Professor Seth Lahn at slahn@indiana.edu or 812-855-0905.
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