The New York University Moot Court Board (MCB) is the journal for aspiring legal advocates, giving its members hands-on experience in legal research, writing, and oral advocacy.
The Moot Court Board is uniquely a journal at NYU because it serves as the intellectual hub of the nation’s mooting community. In particular, we:
– publish a compilation of student-authored moot court problems each year (“the Casebook”) to which almost every ABA-accredited school subscribes, as well as,
– publish an online journal (“Proceedings”) documenting new approaches to unsettled legal questions determined through Moot Court activities (to be launched this September), and,
– represent NYU Law at moot court competitions across the country.
In addition, every MCB member helps organize the intra-school Marden Competition and the National Immigration Law Competition, both of which involve extensive collaboration with local practitioners and senior federal judges and justices.
Staff Editors either compete in an interschool competition or write an extensive Casebook Problem, or both. This is a substantive role with considerable scope for skill training and development.
We are now accepting applications to fill a Staff Editor vacancy on the Moot Court Board.
In order to apply you must be:
– A 2L or 3L who
– Is not presently a member of a journal (either did not do the writing competition, did not match, or left a journal after a one-year commitment).
To apply, please email mootcourt@nyu.edu the following:
(1) a resume,
(2) a brief, or extract of a brief of at least 12 pages and less than 16 pages, which you personally wrote, and
(3) a statement of interest in the body of the email explaining why you want to join the MCB and, if you did not participate in the writing competition, why this was so.
Deadline for applications is noon Thursday, September 3.
Please direct any questions to Alec Webley at alec.webley@nyu.edu.