Moot and Academic
The serious, non-superficial study of law is an intellectual feast. If one fully takes advantage of the opportunities that a law school presents, the study of law will turn the undergraduate into a sharp logician, whose understanding of legal, political, and social relationships seems to border on clairvoyance. The legal education involves acquiring a very intricate and highly specialized set of skills, as well as a vast body of substantive knowledge. In simple words, it’s darn hard.
An average law student will commit approximately 70 hours per week to academics which are spent on attending classes and reading purely textual and voluminous materials. One is bombarded with ideas which are more often than not foreign and imaginary to the student’s young and credulous mind. Apparent adverse physiological reactions occur when trying to learn a subject without the thing actually present or available.
If one is attempting to understand the function and operation of a car or a computer or a solar system, the printed page and spoken word are no substitute for the object itself. It would be extremely difficult to understand how to use a computer for the first time if you did not have the computer there in front of you. In same manner, it would be awfully complex to learn the law when the learner does not personally experience the laws working in his own life. The lack of mass of the object being studied is one of the barriers identified by renowned educators who created breakthroughs in the fields of study technology.
Moot Court is one of the few law school activities that do more to push law students to engage deeply into law, facts and policy; it affords them such a prominent stage on which to showcase such knowledge with polished precision and dexterity. It entails from practical experience of researching and drafting appellate briefs to be argued before judges and justices with extraordinary audacity. It is a quintessential endeavour to put a mass on the object being studied to break the barrier of apathy over the subject matter due to the absence of the thing itself.
The USJ-R School of Law in fostering excellence in written and oral advocacy first constituted a moot court team on 2005 to represent the school in the 1st National Moot Court Competition for International Humanitarian Law. The USJR team is one of the pioneering IHL mooting team in Cebu and in the Country. The team had reached semi-finals so far and we already had bagged the second best mooter award received by Ms. Lyn Aguelo for the year 2007. Indeed, USJR School of Law team is recognized as one of the better and promising team to look forward to in the future.
Realizing the tremendous opportunities, mooting is now infused in the curriculum of the USJR School of Law. It promises to fill in the voids where conventional instruction is short. It provides occasions for students to experience the law and advocacy by giving them veritable chances to explore possibilities instead to fret and grope about their future.
An average law student will commit approximately 70 hours per week to academics which are spent on attending classes and reading purely textual and voluminous materials. One is bombarded with ideas which are more often than not foreign and imaginary to the student’s young and credulous mind. Apparent adverse physiological reactions occur when trying to learn a subject without the thing actually present or available.
If one is attempting to understand the function and operation of a car or a computer or a solar system, the printed page and spoken word are no substitute for the object itself. It would be extremely difficult to understand how to use a computer for the first time if you did not have the computer there in front of you. In same manner, it would be awfully complex to learn the law when the learner does not personally experience the laws working in his own life. The lack of mass of the object being studied is one of the barriers identified by renowned educators who created breakthroughs in the fields of study technology.
Moot Court is one of the few law school activities that do more to push law students to engage deeply into law, facts and policy; it affords them such a prominent stage on which to showcase such knowledge with polished precision and dexterity. It entails from practical experience of researching and drafting appellate briefs to be argued before judges and justices with extraordinary audacity. It is a quintessential endeavour to put a mass on the object being studied to break the barrier of apathy over the subject matter due to the absence of the thing itself.
The USJ-R School of Law in fostering excellence in written and oral advocacy first constituted a moot court team on 2005 to represent the school in the 1st National Moot Court Competition for International Humanitarian Law. The USJR team is one of the pioneering IHL mooting team in Cebu and in the Country. The team had reached semi-finals so far and we already had bagged the second best mooter award received by Ms. Lyn Aguelo for the year 2007. Indeed, USJR School of Law team is recognized as one of the better and promising team to look forward to in the future.
Realizing the tremendous opportunities, mooting is now infused in the curriculum of the USJR School of Law. It promises to fill in the voids where conventional instruction is short. It provides occasions for students to experience the law and advocacy by giving them veritable chances to explore possibilities instead to fret and grope about their future.
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