Back to School: ASL's Award Winning Moot Court, Mock Trial, and ADR Teams
As noted in prior posts, I am using this week to brag about the Appalachian School of Law. Today, I want to focus on our championship competition teams. Moot Court Program Students from the Appalachian School of Law routinely excel in nationally-known moot court competitions. These appellate advocacy competitions pit ASL students against teams from the top 50 schools. At the Wechsler National Criminal Law Competition , ASL has won more awards than any other school in the history of the competition -- including two national championships, two final-round appearances, five Best Advocate awards, four semi-final round appearances, and two brief writing awards. In the spring 2013 National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition (NELMCC), the ASL team advanced all the way to the final round -- out of 76 teams. After three preliminary rounds, ASL was one of 27 teams that advanced to the quarterfinals. One team member was honored as a Top Oralist for the preliminary ro