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Advanced Moot Court Programs

A highlight of the upper-level curriculum is the Judge James Hunter III Moot Court Program. A memorial to Judge Hunter, a United States Court of Appeals judge who sat in Camden, the program is endowed by his former law clerks. Many second-year students participate in the program to sharpen brief-writing and oral advocacy skills. The Hunter program involves a more complex problem than those encountered in the first year, and participants brief and argue in teams of two. The program is structured on an elimination format, with an elimination round and octofinal, quarterfinal, semifinal, and final rounds of argument. Briefs and arguments are scored to determine advancement from round to round. The final round argument is held before a distinguished panel of judges in the United States Courthouse in Camden, with a panel typically including judges from the United States Court of Appeals and the United States District Court, and the justices from the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Selected students who display excellence in advocacy skills are invited to participate in extramural moot court competitions on behalf of the law school. The law school routinely enters teams in the National Moot Court Competition, the Jessup International Moot Court Competition, the National Black Law Students Association Frederick Douglass Competition, the National Latino Law Students Association Moot Court Competition, and the International Environmental Law Moot Court Competitions, among others.


 
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