You cannot learn to argue from a textbook alone. Advocacy is a craft — and like any craft, it is learned by doing, under the eye of someone who has done it well.
In our purpose-built moot court, students research a problem, draft their pleadings, and then stand and argue before a bench of faculty and visiting advocates who interrupt, question, and push back, exactly as a real court would.
The first attempt is always nerve-wracking. By the third or fourth, something shifts: students stop reciting and start thinking on their feet. That shift — from preparation to presence — is the whole point.
