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Moot Court Workbook: Finding Educational Success and Competition Glory

Authors
  • Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
  • Karen J. Sneddon
Series / Aspen Coursebook Series
Teaching Materials
NO
Description

The Moot Court Workbook offers an opportunity to participate a range of lawyerly skills, such as collaborating, scheduling, and managing stress, in addition to honing the skills of legal analysis, research, persuasive writing, and oral advocacy. This workbook enhances the educational and practical experience of moot court, including the development of professional identity, and offers basic information students need to perform well in Moot Court and to cultivate professional skills that will make them successful after graduation.

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • A focus on active learning—with annotated examples drawn from filed briefs and oral arguments, exercises, tip sheets, rubrics, and checklists—to engage students and to help them learn and retain core content.
  • The authors' experience as professors who teach legal writing (including persuasive writing and oral argument), coach moot court teams, and judge moot court competitions.
  • Clear organization and descriptive headings that ensure easy access to relevant topics
  • Workbook topics that are designed to advance students’ understanding and use of persuasive advocacy skills without limitation to a particular competition problem.
  • Examples and exercises (with suggested answers) that are drawn from a variety of subject areas.
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About the authors
Karen J. Sneddon
Dean
Mercer Law School

Karen J. Sneddon became Dean of the Mercer University School of Law on May 31, 2023. As a Professor of Law she taught legal writing and trusts & estates. She continues to write and present in those areas as well as classroom instruction and pedagogy. After graduating summa cum laude from Tulane Law School, she practiced in the area of trusts & estates. Two years later, she became a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School before joining the Mercer faculty in 2006. She has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and taught a short course in Comparative Succession at ELTE Law, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Her most recent law review article is Dead Men (and Women) Should Tell Tales: Narrative, Intent, and Construction Proceedings, 46 ACTEC Law J. 301 (2021). In 2021, she received the 2020 Teresa G. Phelps Scholarship Award for Legal Communication for Clause A to Clause Z: Narrative Transportation and the Transactional Reader, 71 S.C. L. Rev. 247 (2019) (with Professor Susan M. Chesler, co-author and co-recipient of the award). In addition to authoring law review articles, Professor Sneddon co-authored with Moot Court Workbook with Professor Sue Painter-Thorne. Professor Sneddon has also co-authored Experiencing Trusts & Estates with Professor Deborah Gordon, Professor Carla Spivak, & Professor Alison Tait. Professor Sneddon has also contributed a rewritten judgment to Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions (eds. Deborah S Gordon, Browne C. Lewis, & Carla Spivack) (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020). Since 2008, Professor Sneddon has co-authored with Professor David Hricik the regular column “Writing Matters” for the Georgia Bar Journal. She is an active member of the Legal Writing Institute, Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the Southeastern Association of Law Schools.

Product Information
Publication date
2017-07-11
Copyright Year
2017
Pages
160
Digital Product
9781454892601
Subject
Trial Practice
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