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 Langfan Family Constitutional Oratorical Competition has recognized student excellence in public speaking and rhetoric since its establishment in 2001. Langfan is not a traditional moot court competition. Rather, it is an oratorical competition in which competitors deliver a short uninterrupted speech on a constitutional topic.

The Cardozo FAME Center Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition is a new annual competition open to all law schools and will be held in person at Cardozo Law School.

The inaugural competition will be held on March 13-15, 2024 and will delve into current hot-button issues in the intellectual property space. Competitors' oral advocacy and brief writing skills will be adjudicated by a panel of lauded experts, professionals, professors, and practitioners in the field. 

Registration will open on October 1, 2023, at 10:00 am EST. Participating schools may register up to two (2) teams. The registration for a single team is $700. Registration for the second team is $600.

Important Dates:

Registration Closes: December 4, 2023 by 5:00 pm EST

Registration Payment Due: January 10, 2024 by 5:00 pm EST

Problem Released: January 19, 2024 

Briefs Due: February 23, 2024 by 11:59 pm EST

Competition: March 13-15, 2024

For more information about the FAME Center, click here.

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 
Nicole Fabian Peña & Sophie Winnick

Managing Editor  
Harrison Poe

Executive Teams Editor 
Megan Priaulx

Competition Editors 
Avery Abel

Thomas Paddock

Emma Teman

Problem Editors  
Sydney Bruns

Ellie Grafstein

David Rice

Senior Editors 
Zoe Cebulash

Bella Ferrante

Zakaria Khan

Tatiana Sterling


Inclusion Committee Chair 
Zoe Sheppard

Staff Editors  
Nargiz Adigozalova

Victor Allaham

Marcelle Angeles

S. Priana Aquino

Joshua Barzel 

Keith Carpenter

Gowri Cheepurupalli

Emaan Choudhry

Olivia Corn

Marlene Da Cruz

Lauren Deutsch 

Linzy Dineen 

Xander Elias

Maria Kayser

Isaac Kim

Andrew Knepler

Joanne Ling

Kira Lingala

Jack Linkhorst

Keisy Germosen

Dayrielis Noa Guzman

Nordia Mullings

Anais Rosenblatt

Tyler Ross 

Chantall Sanchez

Penny J. Savryn

Matthew Scaptura

Anne Schwab

Kathryn Seigmund

Rahni Stewart

Ariella Vasinkevich

Andrew Walker

Jordan Wappler

Rebecca Yaminian

Mengyao Yu