Exploring New Approaches to Unsettled Legal Questions
Proceedings is the online journal of NYU Law’s Moot Court Board, documenting new approaches to unsettled legal questions proceeding from the topics at issue in moot court competitions participated in by Moot Court members.
As most appellate lawyers know, one of the best ways to refine a theory of a case or an area of law is to argue about it, either informally with colleagues and law school peers, or professionally through brief writing and oral arguments. But student Moot Court competitions, which consider some of the most interesting and intractable problems in law, generate hundreds of hours of formal, inquisitorial analysis of those problems by participants, professors, practitioners, and judges (not to mention reams of legal writing)–and then, too often, the results are thrown away when the competition is over.
No longer. Proceedings is the journal where law students can publish their “test results” from the legal laboratory of mooting that exemplifies both old and new approaches to unsettled areas of law. It aims to realize mooting’s potential not only as a valuable educational exercise, but as a productive forum for legal research and debate.