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Building your knowledge and skills

Being a student in Dal's Schulich School of Law means you'll attend traditional academic lectures and seminar courses that will expand your knowledge of the law and improve your analytic skills. You'll also take courses or programs that help you听build your knowledge and skills听through听practical experience.

As a second- and third-year student, you鈥檒l be able to participate in one or more of several听mooting programs. In these moots, you鈥檒l learn and practice various听advocacy skills, including听persuasive legal writing,听preparation of factums,听proper courtroom decorum, and听oral advocacy.

In the required听moot court听course, you鈥檒l be assigned a moot problem and a side鈥攁ppellant or respondent鈥攁nd then follow various procedures to听moot a hypothetical case. Second-year students act as counsel, while third-year students act as judges. If you鈥檙e part of the best second-year moot counsel, you鈥檒l have the opportunity to听compete听in your third year for听the Smith Shield, a prestigious 黑料吃瓜网award.

Many other mooting programs and courses are offered:

• 迟丑别听Jessup International Moot Court Competition, a world-wide event on a problem of international law
• 迟丑别听Laskin Moot听(an administrative-constitutional moot)
• 迟丑别听Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Rights Moot
• 补听Securities Law Moot
• 迟丑别听Gale Cup Moot Court Competition听(among all Canadian common law schools)
• 迟丑别听Canadian Labour Arbitration Moot
• 迟丑别听Sopinka Cup, a two-day event aimed at encouraging law schools to train students in oral advocacy

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