Brief Post About Briefing

Every first year at HLS participates in the Ames Moot Court. This is not to be confused with the much cooler Ames Competition, which is a two-year process that can culminate in students arguing in front of Supreme Court Justices. Despite the fact that most people complained about the 1L Ames Moot Court most of the time, I think most of us found it pretty fun to do. Well...you know....fun for schoolwork. We all got assigned a partner from our section to work with. My partner was absolutely fantastic, and I've heard surprisingly few horror stories about folks with not great partners. As teams of two, we all wrote a brief supporting either the appellants or the appelles of the mock case. The case, by the way, was *awesome*. It was fake, of course, but it concerned the necessary level of protection for participants on Kid Nation. SB, of course, will remember the hours and hours of our lives that we devoted to that paragon of a TV show. My partner and I, as the appellants, submited our briefs yesterday. Our opponents with submit their briefs next week after reading ours, and then we'll have a round of oral arguments in front of the student advisors in our Legal Research & Writing class, as well as some outside people. The oral arguments don't count towards your grade, but they still seem like a neat thing to be doing.