2010 Moot Court

On this webpage, you will find information for the Moot Court. The subject of this year's Moot Court is preventive detention (sometimes called prolonged detention).

For background material on preventive detention, click here. Your guided worksheet will use PDFs from this folder. You can open each file with Adobe Acrobat Reader--which is free and available at http://www.adobe.com

For court cases bearing on preventive detention, click here.

Listen to Dr. Schweizer talk about the Assignments for April 13th, 15th, and 20th by clicking here. This link may not work right!

To find the "Summary of Supreme Court Cases" that you will use in writing your briefs and for the Supreme Court to consider in writing their opinion, click here.

To find "Moot Court Facts" which give you Moot Court case and the issues, click here.

To download the "Moot Court First Assignment" which is due Thursday, April 15th, click here .

Click to listen to the oral argument in Boumidiene v. Bush (2008)