ita, a moot court is like debate club or a talent show--it's a way for law students to strut their stuff in a make-believe version of the real thing. The teams are given an invented problem, which they research and prepare arguments for, and then they present it in a trial setting, usually before volunteer lawyers and judges.

I assume the World Human Rights Moot Court is an international moot court competition discussing human rights issues, probably relying on principles of international law.

I, too, am grateful for all the Buffistas who could be there physically for Maria.

I assume the World Human Rights Moot Court is an international moot court competition discussing human rights issues, probably relying on principles of international law.

Do you know anything about it specifically, though? Is it held in any regard? Does it have any impact on a law student's resume? Anything like that?

Apparently the only place you can get them in Nashville is at Publix

I wonder if Publix has them here....

Do you know anything about it specifically, though? Is it held in any regard? Does it have any impact on a law student's resume? Anything like that?

No.

Probably yes, but probably mostly within the legal education community.

Yes, even getting to enter it is probably competitive, and speaks well for a student's abilities and commitment to human rights.

I have completely sugar-crashed now. I would kill or die for a nap.

I'm also wondering if a law school gets big ups for its team winning, or it's just much of a muchness.

I feel like Polish isn't really our same alphabet, even though it looks a lot like it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

It's not quite Cyrillic, but slavic do have characters we don't, yes?

Now Gaelic, it looks one way, pronounced entirely differently! (I was home this weekend and CB has all the place named in English and Gaelic. )

It's not quite Cyrillic, but slavic do have characters we don't, yes?

Yeah, like the one that looks like an L with a cross. Lech Walesa = Vah-wen-sa, no?

I'm also wondering if a law school gets big ups for its team winning

Oh, it certainly does. It's the sort of thing that goes in the alumni newsletter, and on the catalogs and website. "Our students won the International Human Rights Moot Court!" Usually with a picture of the team.

If your thing is international human rights and the school trained students better than any in the world on arguing human rights before a body of respected judges and lawyers, that's something that will draw you to the school. That they even have a human rights moot court team to begin with would be considered unusual.

While I was in law school, we had mock trial classes, and moot court, and then there was a special seminar on environmental moot court, and those people competed with other law schools in the region or nationally. It's a whole thing, like law review: you do a ton of work, and learn a lot, and get credit for it (I think).