School of Law - Student Activities

• STUDENT ACTIVITIES
  • Publications
  • Competitions
    • Moot Court
    • Mock Trial
    • Client Counseling

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Publications

The School of Law publishes three scholarly journals, all student-edited. The oldest is the Case Western Reserve Law Review, published quarterly. The Journal of International Law is published two to three times a year; the JIL editorial board also has responsibility for the Canada-U.S. Law Journal (sponsored by the Canada/U.S. Law Institute), published once a year. Health Matrix began as a joint undertaking of all six of CWRU's professional schools but since 1990 has been sponsored solely by the law school and its Law-Medicine Center.

Competitions

Moot Court

A student board administers the Dean Dunmore Competition, a yearlong program in which second-year (and a very few third-year) students participate. It culminates in a round-robin tournament involving 16 finalists. From those finalists the board selects teams who will compete in the following year in the National Moot Court Competition, the Craven Competition in constitutional law, and the Niagara Competition (sponsored by the Canada/U.S. Law Institute). CWRU also enters the Jessup International Competition; that team is selected by another student group, the Society of International Law Students.

Mock Trial

The Jonathan M. Ault Mock Trial Board sponsors an intramural competition from which emerge the members of interscholastic teams. Currently the law school sends student representatives to the National Trial Competition, the National Student Trial Competition of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and a competition sponsored by the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Client Counseling

All students are eligible to participate in the annual Client Counseling Competition, which tests interviewing and counseling abilities rather than the more adversarial lawyering skills. In a tournament, teams of two students playing the part of lawyers interview an actor playing the role of a client. The panel of judges usually includes a psychologist or social worker along with practicing attorneys.

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