Mooting research guide: Articles

While not specifically devoted to mooting, these journals contain articles on all aspects of trial practice:

• The Advocates’ Journal – in print only
• American Journal of Trial Advocacy
• Federal Litigator - in Westlaw Edge Canada, under the International tab. Use your personal account.
• Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy
• Stetson Journal of Advocacy and the Law (free web resource)
• Trial Advocate (formerly Trial Advocate Quarterly) - in Westlaw Edge Canada, under the International tab. Use your personal account.

Add and Canada when searching for Canadian material

Always try journal indexes first to identify relevant articles!

The full text of the article is often attached or available through a link.

Do a subject search in the indexes below for moot courts, Persuasion (Rhetoric) as well as keyword searches for mooting, oral advocacy and written advocacy:

• Index to Canadian Legal Periodicals (ICLL). Available through Lexis+ Canada and Westlaw Edge Canada.
• LegalTrac
• Legal Source
• Current index to legal periodicals (CILP)

Hint: Add and Canada when searching in non-Canadian indexes to identify Canadian material.

For more information on journal indexes see:

• Legal journal indexes and articles research guide
• Journal articles and Indexes Workshop Recording and PowerPoint Presentation (Oct. 27, 2021)

• The Hon. Justice Ian Binnie, “In Praise of Oral Advocacy,” 21 The Advocates' Society Journal no. 4, 3-18.
• The Hon. Justice Marvin Catzman, “The Wrong Stuff: How to Lose Appeals in the Court of Appeal,” 19 The Advocates' Society Journal no. 1, 1-5.
• Perell, Paul M. "Getting a Judge's Attention" Briefly Speaking (April 2009) 30.

• M. David Lepofsky, “The unsung art of written advocacy: Strategies, tips, and a call for unorthodoxy”, 23 The Advocates' Society Journal  No. 1, 10 – 27.