Journals, Moot Court, National Trial Team
Journals
Journal credit is determined by the outgoing editorial staff consistent with academic policies adopted by the faculty. Students can participate in a joint journal competition following one full-year of law school at William & Mary. The competition results in placement of eligible students to one of the five journals.
If you become eligible for journal credit, you will be notified and your student record will be coded to allow you to register for the appropriate number of credits (from 1 to 4) upon recommendation by the editorial staff and approval of the Law School administration. Journal credit is pass/fail. You can earn credit for work on only one law journal per semester.
Journals
Law Review
Bill of Rights Journal
Business Law Review
Environmental Law & Policy Review
Journal of Race, Gender and Social Justice
Moot Court
Moot Court team members are selected from an inter-school competition. Once selected for the team, your student record will be coded to allow you to register yourself online for Advanced Brief Writing (ABW), a course designed to lay the ground work for writing a winning competition brief. You must take ABW prior to your tournament competition.
Your record also will be coded so you can register for a one-credit pass/fail course in the semester in which you compete. This credit is given for completing the tournament brief. Students who write a Spong tournament problem will be registered in a two-credit graded course, or for the Bushrod problem a one-credit graded course, in the semester the problem is written.
Required courses
Independent Legal Research – Moot Court
Advanced Brief Writing
National Trial Team
A series of courses support the specific education and competition preparation of the National Trial Team. Team members are selected after an inter-school competition. If you earn a position on the team, you will be notified and your record coded to allow you to register yourself online for Trial Advocacy-National Trial Team during the fall semester of your second year of law school. This three-credit, pass/fail course is designed to prepare you for competition.