Drafting of Moot Memorials/ Arguments

When you send a long message to a group and nobody replies, it is usually because the point is buried on the fifth line. A memorial is read by a judge who has forty of them to get through, so the point must be on the first line of each section. A memorial is a written argument in a fixed shape, and the shape is the help: it tells the reader where to look. The same arguments then have to be spoken in a few minutes, in front of a bench that interrupts.

In two minutes

A memorial is a structured written submission for one side: cover page, contents, index of authorities, statement of jurisdiction, facts, issues, summary, arguments advanced issue by issue, and a prayer; oral argument is the same case theory, compressed and delivered to a bench that will question you.

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