The Moot Court Honor Society is structured like a publication, with oralists, editors, and staff selected on the basis of grades, writing ability, and oral advocacy skills. The organization is entirely student-run and advised by Professor Burton Lipshie. Selected students participate in numerous national and regional moot court competitions, writing advocacy briefs for competitions and preparing for oral argument. Members also prepare the problems and bench memos for interscholastic and intramural competitions.

Established by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at the University of Oxford in 2008, the Price Media Law Moot Court Programme aims to foster and cultivate interest in freedom of expression issues and the role of the media and information technologies in societies around the world.

The Competition is currently comprised of six Regional Rounds (South Asia, Asia-Pacific, South East Europe, North East Europe, Middle East, Africa and Americas) and the selective International Rounds held in Oxford.

The Regional Rounds in the Americas of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition are held annually at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and organized in association with Cardozo Law, the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.  

The Moot Court Honor Society is proud to host the 2027 Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition. The competition provides law students with the opportunity to showcase their written and oral advocacy skills while engaging with contemporary issues in intellectual property law before distinguished judges and practitioners.

Registration is now open. 

The registration fee is $850 per team. Schools may register up to two teams, subject to the competition’s overall capacity. Schools registering two teams may do so at a discounted rate amounting to a total registration fee of $1,500.

Important Dates:

• Registration Opens: September 7, 2026
• Registration Deadline: December 1, 2026
• Problem Release: Early–mid January 2027
• Deadline for Clarifying Questions: January 31, 2027
• Brief Deadline: February 28, 2027
• Competition: April 1–2, 2027

Registration will remain open until December 1, 2026, or until the competition reaches capacity. For questions, please contact cardozoipmootcourtcomp@gmail.com.

More information about the FAME Center

The Monrad G. Paulsen Competition, named after Cardozo's first Dean, is an intramural competition, sponsored by the Moot Court Honor Society, which provides a forum for second and third year students to compete for recognition as Cardozo's best advocates. All upper level students are eligible to participate. Entrants write briefs which are evaluated by the Moot Court Honor Society Editorial Board and faculty members. Entrants then participate in an "elimination style" oral advocacy tournament which is judged by faculty, practicing attorneys and judges. Students submit a brief on one of the two issues of law before the court and orally argue both issues over several nights of competition. Students with the best oral and written scores advance progressively to semi-final and final rounds. On the basis of their performance in the competition, some participants are invited to join the Moot Court Honor Society.

Editors-in-Chief

Emily Conway & Mohsin Minhas

Managing Editor

Daniela Martinez

Executive Teams Editor

Gabriella Lucas 

Inclusion Committee Chair

Jamie Songco

Inclusion Committee

Jenny Kam 

Cristian Miranda

Problem Editors

Aidan Arnold

Alexander Bluth 

Competition Editors

Olenka Ballena 

Jolie Kwok

Emily Longmore

Senior Editors

Jacob Frankel 

Moshe Gesin 

Madison Kovach 

Jared Levine 

Anya Sharma 

Pierce Sterling 

Associate Editors 

Sheridan Berry 

Anthony Cataldo 

Drew Davis 

Quinn Gorman

Carson Sheinberg 

Hannah Welles

Ashley Vrana 

Staff Editors 

Sami Bell 

Roberta Bukshtab 

Liam Finn

Owen Foley 

Sofia Guerra

Grace Henning 

Alexandra Kapell

Jay Kasakove 

Ben Karp 

Peri Kessler

Samantha Kline 

Shalom Lefkowitz 

Greta McCabe 

Malloy McGreevy 

Samule Moise-Silverman 

Adriel Morgan 

Alexandra Nesmith 

Madeline Paul 

Madalyn Pelegrin

Daniel Silver

Jastej Sra

Kaitlyn Taylor 

Alexia Thornton

Annah Valenta 

Evan Zlotnick 

Shelley Yusupova