Competitive Mooting 2021-2022

Competitive Mooting
2021-2022

Agenda
1.   Check in
2.   Contact information
3.   Overview of Mooting
4.   Eligibility/Criteria
5.   Application/Tryouts
6.   Moots
7.   2020-2021 Mooters

Ice breaker - 2000’s songs
challenge

Faculty contact information

Nancy Czemmel
Nancy.Czemmel2@mcgill.ca
514 398 8196

Giosi Rota
Giosina.Rota@mcgill.ca
514 398 2226

Sao.law@mcgill.ca
514 398 6608

Why Mooting?
Competitive mooting is demanding, but exciting and rewarding. It is an
opportunity to develop advocacy skills and present a case before
experienced judges.
Selected students represent the Faculty at Canadian and international
mooting competitions.
Students who are interested in analyzing and researching complex legal
problems, developing arguments and advocacy skills.

Eligibility
❖Students must have completed PRAC 200 Advocacy
❖Students must be entering into third or fourth year
❖Students cannot do a competitive moot if they are going on exchange
in the same year.
❖Consider the number of non-course credits (e.g. legal clinic, Law
journals, clerkships…) you wish to take – the limit is 15 credits total.

                      you may have to make choices!

Managing your academic
commitments
❖be prepared to devote a substantial amount of time to your moot
competition without jeopardizing your other academic obligations.
❖meet your teammates early in the year to establish a timeline for
factum drafts and practice sessions.
❖keep in mind course selection and methods of evaluation.

Course Registration
PRAC 510 Advance Mooting (3 non course credits P/F)
Options:
1. Fall term 3c
2. Winter term 3c
3. Split full year 1.5c/1.5c
Register directly via Minerva
Final grade only appears in May
(Note: Max 15 non course credits)

Moot application &
  try out dates
Application
Le formulaire électronique pour participer sera disponible sur notre site internet à
partir de lundi 15 mars, 2021 à 9:30 et jusqu’au 24 mars 2021.
  ▪ Complete the online form
  ▪ rank the moots on a scale of 1 to 6
  ▪ télécharger votre CV.

Try-outs
When: Monday March 29 & Friday April 9
Where: Remotely on Zoom
Sign up Google Doc will be available on March 24 on SAO website
Material for try outs (Facta and instructions) will be on SAO website as of March 24,
2021.

Team
              MOOT                                        DESCRIPTION                              members
              Davies Corporate/Securities Law             Corporate and Securities Law             4

              Willms & Shier Environmental Law            Eenvironment Law                         4

              H.G. Fox Moot                               Intellectual Property                    4

              Gale Cup Moot                               Criminal Law & Charter                   4

              Jessup                                      Public International Law                 4                   Public International
                                                                                                                      Law is a prerequisite

              Kawaskimhon Moot                            Indigenous Law                           4 (2 teams of 2)   *Preference given
                                                                                                                      to Indigenous
                                                                                                                      students

              Laskin                                      Administrative & Constitutional law      4

The list of   Concours Mignault                           Quebec Civil Law                         4

Moots         Canadian National Negotiation Competition
              (CNNC)
                                                          Dispute Resolution                       4 (2 teams of 2)   1 credit

2021-2022     Policy Moot Pan-Canadian Competition        Public Policy                            4

              Sopinka (Guy Guérin Cup)                    Advocacy                                 2

              Willem C. Vis                               International Commercial Law &           4
                                                          Arbitration

              CPR International Mediation Competition     International mediation & negotiation    3

              Wilson Moot                                 Equity & Charter                         4

              Canadian Competition Law Moot               Civil/Criminal issues private economic   4
                                                          incentives/public interest

              Warren K. Winkler                           Class Actions                            4

              Julius Alexander Isaac Diversity            Equity & diversity                       4                   One team member
                                                                                                                      selected from BLASM.

              International Tax Moot                      Taxation                                 4                  by invitation only

              *If interested in this moot, please indicate whether you are Indigenous.    If you are only interested in
              this moot, you need not try out, but you should submit a letter of intent c/o the SAO.

Try outs
Evaluation
maîtrise des arguments; présentation logique et convaincante.
capacité de répondre aux questions.
originalité; ingénuité.
qualité de l’expression orale e.g. diction, clarté, vitesse, respiration,
modulation et timbre de la voix, regard franc, etc.
aisance; maintien; assurance.

Questions?

Mooters 2020-2021
Michelle Pucci (Fox)
Leila Alfaro (CNNC)
Elise Malenfant & Catalina Karam (Laskin)
Diana Stepner (Winkler)
Félix-Antoine Pelletier (Mignault)