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Schedule | Recent Winners | Executive Board | Members | 2009 Prince Competition
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Trial Division |  Appellate Division | Students Home
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Members of the Appellate Division compete each year in over 20 competitions throughout the country. These competitions give students the opportunity to hone both their research and writing skills. Students work hard to research and produce written briefs on issues involving the subject area of law in which they will compete. They spend a number of weeks drafting their briefs, then engage in weeks of “practice rounds,” aided by their coaches and members of the Society, to perfect their oral argument skills. By competition time, they have perfected their arguments on both sides of the issue. Appellate competitions address a wide breadth of subject matters, ranging from Law & Economics to Civil Rights Law to Sports Law. Like the Trial Division, Appellate Division competitors have won competitions every year and often advance beyond preliminary rounds to the quarter-final, semi-final and final rounds of competition. Please contact Brendan Tracy (brendan.tracy@brooklaw.edu) or Gloria Yi (gloria.yi@brooklaw.edu) with any questions regarding the Appellate Division of MCHS. Selection For Membership In The Appellate Advocacy Division Members of the Moot Court Honor Society’s appellate division are selected primarily through a two-round intramural competition held in the spring of their first year of law school. Students who are not invited to join the Society during their first year may apply for membership after completing a course in Appellate Advocacy. First-Year Competition Participation in the first round of the intramural competition is required as part of the first-year legal writing course. Students who score in the top 25 percent of their legal writing sections are eligible to compete in the second round, but participation in the second round is not mandatory. Approximately 10 percent of first-year students will be admitted to the Society based on their scores in the second round. Only those students who compete in the second round will be considered for membership. Scoring Students are scored on their skills in writing and oral advocacy. For each round, a student’s overall score is calculated by weighting his or her oral argument score for that round and his or her brief score. The maximum score is 30 points. In the first round, the brief accounts for 60% and the oral argument accounts for 40% of the overall score. In the second round, the brief is 40% and the oral argument is 60% of the overall score. Scores is the first round have no effect on scores in the second round. Brief ScoreSecond- and Third-Year Students Students may become members of the appellate division after completing the Appellate Advocacy course and delivering an oral argument to a panel judges who are MCHS members. Invitations for membership are at the discretion of the executive board and depend on Society needs and the applicant’s, oral argument performance, Appellate Advocacy brief, and grades in Legal Writing I & II, and Appellate Advocacy. Please contact Celine Chan (celine.chan@brooklaw.edu) with any questions regarding selection for membership in the Appellate Division of MCHS.
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