Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2020
Abstract
Taking part in an international moot court competition can be one of the most exciting things a law student can do. Months are spent bunkering down with team mates and coaches analysing, researching, producing written submissions on a wide range of issues that seldom have obvious answers; more months are spent refining the oral submissions before they are presented to the judges at the competition. Mooters never had to grapple with the prospect of presenting the arguments using an online platform. The most recent coronavirus changes that. In this piece, I identify some of the issues and drawbacks of making legal arguments online. Having things move online has not changed the fact that highly trained mooters continue to be prized by law firms.
Keywords
Moot competitions, Online platform, COVID-19, pandemic
Discipline
Legal Education
Research Areas
Asian and Comparative Legal Systems
Publication
Law and COVID-19
Editor
Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Mark Findlay, and Goh Yihan
First Page
242
Last Page
244
ISBN
9789811808272
Identifier
10.2139/ssrn.3686357
Publisher
School of Law, Singapore Management University
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
CHEN, Siyuan.
Online advocacy: Views from a Moot Coach. (2020). Law and COVID-19. 242-244.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3196
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3686357