Competition Credits

Special Registration Procedures for Blakely Advocacy Institute courses and Competition Credits (either through the Advocates competitions or an external competition):

Advocates is the student organization that administrates internal (Law Center students only) advocacy competitions. These competitions are the Hippard Mock Trial Competition, the Blakely Butler Moot Court Competition, the Lorance & Thompson Negotiation Competition, and the Tom Newhouse Mediation Competition. Students participating in any of the Advocates competitions listed above may receive 1-hour course credit for successfully completing the competition requirements. A maximum total of four competition credits (which are considered non-substantive credits) can be applied toward graduation requirements. A maximum of two additional hours may be earned for serving on the elected Board of Advocates or on one of the external competition team Executive Boards (ADR, Mock Trial, Moot Court). Students may also receive competition credits for competing in an external mock trial, moot court, or ADR competition.

NOTE: Students may take their competition credits retroactively.

To receive internal or external competition credits, eligible students must complete two steps:

• Complete a Blakely Advocacy Petition https://www.law.uh.edu/blakely/credit-petition.asp .
• Students must follow the standard registration process for law school courses when enrolling for competition credits. They can register in the same semester they compete or choose to register retroactively for the competition credits in future semesters. For one competition credit hour, either from an interscholastic competition or a UHLC Advocates internal competition, students should enroll in the course titled “Advocacy Competition ONE”. To obtain two competition credit hours in a semester, students need to register for both “Advocacy Competition ONE” and “Advocacy Competition TWO”. This registration method applies similarly for three or four competition credit hours within the same semester.

If a student wants to confirm how many competitions they have competed in, and thus how many credits to register for, they should reach out to the Blakely Advocacy Institute directly (https://www.law.uh.edu/blakely/).

NOTE: Blakely Advocacy Institute and the Advocates will not register you for credit. You must register for the credit yourself.

Registering for Blakely Advocacy Institute (BAI) Courses:

Registration for BAI courses is generally the same as other Law Center courses. These courses have a limited enrollment and may fill up quickly. If the BAI course you want is full when you try to register, please continue to check the enrollment status as students will make regular changes in their course selections. The current semester BAI courses are listed on the Law Center schedule and students can find out more about the courses at http://www.law.uh.edu/blakely/advocacy-courses.asp.