Mississippi College School of Law’s Moot Court Board is nationally recognized team composed of students who seek to improve both their writing and oral advocacy skills. Board members are selected each fall through a try-out competition. Second year students are invited to participate in the competition after submitting a brief for the mandatory appellate advocacy class. Through the Copeland, Cook,
Taylor, and Bush internal competition, each student presents an oral argument on the issues addressed in the brief to a panel of local judges, attorneys, and faculty members. New Board members are selected based on the combination of their brief score and oral argument score. Once on the Board, members compete in competitions that take place throughout the year and throughout the United States. Our Board competes in national Moot Court, Trial, and ADR competitions. In January of 2016, MC Law's Moot Court Board won the title of National Champions of the ABA National Arbitration Moot Court Competition. The following August, the title of National Champions was claimed once again by MC Law's Moot Court Board in the E.
