GW Law is one of the best schools in the country when it comes to Moot Court success, according to preLaw magazine.
Using data from the Blakely Advocacy Institute, preLaw combined each school's points from moot court competitions from 2009-2016 to make its top 20 list. The publication says the schools that have excelled in competition since the Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship began tracking them seven years ago. Each year, the institute identifies the top schools based on an intricate scoring technique that looks at the quality of the competitions, the size of the events, and each school's overall performance.
"This is noteworthy because it looks at GW Law's moot court success over a significant period of time. It takes a lot of hard work from our students and commitment from the law school—both financially and in teaching and coaching—to accomplish this," says GW Law's Assistant Dean for Pro Bono & Advocacy Programs, David Johnson.
Dean Johnson also says the scores do not reflect any international moot court competitions where GW Law's moot court teams have made a huge accomplishments.
"GW Law has made excellent recent success in international moot courts in India, Brazil, Italy, England, Japan and elsewhere. Additionally, the ranking also does not factor in the moot courts we host, and GW Law holds seven every academic year, including one where half the members of the current Supreme Court have presided over the finals. If they factored in our international successes as well as the moot courts we host, our ranking would most assuredly be even higher."