Fall 2024

5344 Appellate Advocacy - JEU- 16381

Professor(s): Danielle Giaccio (ADJUNCT)
Seth Hopkins (ADJUNCT)
Cassandra Jeu (CLINICAL FACULTY)
Emory Powers (ADJUNCT)
Hannah Roblyer (ADJUNCT)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Blakely Advocacy Simulation

Time: 6:00p-9:00p W Location: 220

Course Outline: The course introduces students to appellate advocacy and the appellate process, with a focus on oral appellate advocacy. Students engage with a hypothetical problem by identifying, researching, and analyzing legal issues and then honing their appellate advocacy skills with briefing and oral arguments. The course culminates with students delivering an oral argument to a panel. This is an experiential, simulation course.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.

Quota = 48.

Prerequisites:

First Day Assignments: Read the following two briefs from the 2024 Hunton Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship (links below)

Brief 1: https://law.uh.edu/blakely/mcnc/2024/Team%2059%20-%20Petitioner.pdf

Brief 2: https://law.uh.edu/blakely/mcnc/2024/Team%2015%20-%20Respondent.pdf

You will NOT be assessed or graded on your substantive knowledge/understanding of the problem and/or briefs. Rather, we will watch and critique an oral argument during our first class. Reading the briefs will allow you to understand the issues and arguments.

Final Exam Schedule:

This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:

Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: simulation

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Conditional Availability (not for required credits)

Course Materials

No book required for this course

There is no required textbook for this class. Assigned materials will be provided and made available via email or Canvas.