학술논문

Benefits of Undergraduate Involvement in Moot Court Programs.
Document Type
Article
Source
Conference Papers -- Southern Political Science Association. 2016, p1-21. 21p.
Subject
*MOOT courts
*MOCK trials
*EDUCATION research
*LEGAL education
*UNDERGRADUATES
*STATE universities & colleges
Language
Abstract
Every year almost 800 undergraduate students become involved in Moot Court, bringing attention to the question does a student's involvement in a rigorous action based class better their chance of succeeding in law school or graduate school? In the efforts to answer this question this paper compares small public college without moot court programs to similar colleges who do have moot court programs. Within those schools data was also be used to compare students both sets of studies to better analyze the data being presented. These findings would be compared to data gathered from colleges that had a statistically significant success rate from students no matter program they were involved in during undergraduate studies. Using a survey with a scale allowed data gathered from each school to be compared with the same accuracy. The surveys were distributed to professors and directors of the colleges being studied. The preliminary findings that this paper will mainly discuss is based from 20 surveys taken by students. From these preliminary findings this study was able to gather that programs such as moot court do indeed impact the success an individual has in law school or graduate school by preparing students with advanced reasoning, public speaking, writing capabilities, and made them think on their feet. These abilities allowed most students to be prepared for the challenges they face during their time in law school or their graduate program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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