The ABA Forum on Communications Law invites qualified law students to apply to participate in the Ninth Annual First Amendment and Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition
The Semi-Final and Final Rounds of the Competition will be held during the Forum on Communications Law’s 22nd Annual Conference, which will take place on February 9-11, 2017, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Travel and accommodations are paid for semi-finalists.
$5,000 total in cash prizes will be awarded.
This outstanding competition is open to minority law students interested in the practice of media law.
- Open to current 1Ls and 2Ls who are members of a national or local minority law student organization; there is no requirement to be on a law school’s moot court board
- There is no fee to apply
- Every student who advances to the quarter-final round will be paired with a practicing media law attorney for MENTORING during the competition and career advice
- All semi-finalists receive round-trip transportation, hotel for 4 nights, meals and complimentary registration to attend the Forum on Communications Law 22nd Annual Conference
- During the Annual Conference, there will be numerous opportunities to network with prominent practicing media law attorneys and judges and to attend media law seminars
- Semi-finalists’ résuméswill be distributed to all Annual Conference attendees
- Each member of the winning team will receive $750.00
- Each member of the team with the highest brief score will receive $1,000.00
- The finalist with the highest score for the final round of oral argument will receive $1,500.00
Apply individually or as a team; team members may attend the same or different law schools. Each person must submit a résumé, a short writing sample and a 500 word response to a media law hypothetical posed in the application.
FINAL APPLICATION DEADLINE: MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016. All entrants will be notified whether they advance by Friday, June 24, 2016.
For more information and official Competition Rules, visit the Moot Court Competition webpage.