LAW 889: Appellate Advocacy Short Course
This course will teach students the basics of federal appellate advocacy. The focus will be on the requirements of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, although some case law and scholarly commentary will be referenced. Students will be evaluated based on the presentation of an appellant’s oral argument on a case to be argued in the Eighth Circuit (permitting the students to compare their performances with the tape of actual oral argument), and on writing an appellee’s brief in that case, in response to an appellant’s brief filed in the Eighth Circuit (putting the student in the realistic posture of responding to a real brief based on a real record, and again permitting the students to compare their efforts with the actual appellee briefs later filed). Enrollment Limited [1]
