{"id":24769,"date":"2022-08-01T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=24769"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:05:25","slug":"advanced-moot-court-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/advanced-moot-court-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Moot Court Competition!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Attention 2Ls and 3Ls:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Moot Court Board is excited to give a preview of the 2022 Advanced Competition problem!<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s problem arises from a university student\u2019s efforts to combat the school\u2019s failure to address sexual assault by publicizing the issue on social media and in the school newspaper.\u00a0 Can she be sued for posting and commenting on another person\u2019s defamatory post?\u00a0 Can the university stop publication of an article about the issue because of the potential fallout?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first issue is statutory: Is an online publisher immune for soliciting and adding commentary to third-party content?\u00a0 The second is constitutional: Does the First Amendment protect an article in the student newspaper from administrative censorship?\u00a0 You tell us!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Get your co-counsel, draft your brief, and argue your position in front of the \u201cSupreme Court\u201d to take home the win.\u00a0 There are awards for first and second place winners, best brief, and top oral advocates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All second- and third-year students can compete in Advanced, but we encourage everyone to sign up for the Appellate Advocacy course offered this fall.\u00a0 The class assignments revolve around the Advanced problem and you will brief the case for class, so you can get a leg up on the competition by enrolling in Appellate Advocacy (CRN 88124).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For questions about the competition or the course, please e-mail Associate Justice of the Advanced Competition, Kylie Ronnow, at <a href=\"mailto:ksronnow@memphis.edu\">ksronnow@memphis.edu<\/a>\u00a0or Director of the Advocacy Program, Barbara Kritchevsky, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:bkrtchvs@memphis.edu\">bkrtchvs@memphis.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes on the Blog for more information about the Advanced Competition!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention 2Ls and 3Ls: The Moot Court Board is excited to give a preview of the 2022 Advanced Competition problem! This&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[304,324,305,325],"class_list":["post-24769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moot-court","tag-advanced-competition","tag-appellate-advocacy","tag-moot-court","tag-moot-court-board"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24771,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769\/revisions\/24771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}