How to Judge a Moot Court Competition
Today I volunteered to judge rounds at my law school's annual Asylum and Refugee Law National Moot Court Competition . Justices Vong and Cruz (don't judge the judges please) For those of you that saved years of your life and didn't go to law school, moot court is different from mock trial in that it's an oral argument in front of a panel of appellate court judges instead of the jury like we see in Law & Order. UC Davis (King Hall) hosts a national competition every year that focuses on Asylum law, where law students from all over the country come to Davis to advocate for either a petitioner seeking asylum in the United States or on behalf of the US government. This topic means a lot to me because my parents were refugees who fled Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge and immigrated to the US. My parents inspired me to pursue a career in public service where I could work with a government that protects the rights of its people, and I hope to use my law degree to ad...