Adam Shlahet, the director of the Moore Advocacy Center, was quoted in National Jurist discussing his efforts to coordinate a novel online moot court competition with UCLA Law. More than 170 law students from 67 different schools participated in the competition.
Technology is helping law students to continue to battle, argue, match wits, have at it. In a professional manner, mind you. A number of moot court competitions that used to be held in person are being held online in wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Because a number of competitions had been canceled, two law schools, UCLA School of Law and Fordham University School of Law, stepped up to create a novel online moot court contest —the National Online Trial Advocacy Competition — which was open to students throughout the nation.
Adam Shlahet, the director of the Moore Advocacy Center at Fordham Law School, helped coordinate the opportunity and quickly developed the virtual structure for the competition. He collaborated with Justin Bernstein, director of the A. Barry Cappello Program in Trial Advocacy at UCLA Law.
“Hundreds of law students across the country were devastated [by the cancelations],” Shlahet said. “They’d worked for months preparing those competitions that never happened. We wanted to do something for those students.”