The Moot Court Honor Society is a competition-based organization at Cardozo. In addition to participating in approximately six competitions each semester, the organization also hosts the Paulsen Intramural Moot Court Competition in the fall, as well as the Monroe Price Media Law Competition, the Cardozo FAME Center Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition, and Langfan Oratorical Competition each spring.
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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.
Monroe Price Media Law Competition
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.
Cardozo FAME Center Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition
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.
To register, click here.
For information about the rules of the competition, click here.
To view this year's Problem, click here.
For Corrections & Clarifications to the year's Problem, click here.
The Monrad G. Paulsen Competition
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.
FALL 2023 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
Danielle Dorchester
Xander Elias
Keisy Germosen
Dayrielis Noa Guzman
Maria Kayser
Isaac Kim
Andrew Knepler
Joanne Ling
Kira Lingala
Jack Linkhorst
Isabelle Markoe
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