1. 1No comprehensive survey could be identified which determines with precision the extent of American appellate simulation. On the other hand, the authors could not identify a single American law school without an appellate simulation program for their doctoral students. The authors conclude appellate simulations are conducted at all American law schools. One indicator of the extent of law school moot court is the number of textbooks on "appellate simulation" marketed to American law students. See, MG, INTRODUCTION TO ADVOCACY: RESEARCH, WRITING, AND ARGUMENT6 (1998);
2. DILL, INTRODUCTION TO ADVOCACY, BRIEF WRITING, AND ORAL ARGUMENT IN MOOT COURT COMPETITION 5 (1991);
3. JG, THE MOOT COURT BOOK: A GUIDE TO APPELLATE ADVOCACY 3 (1994).
4. 2No recent survey of the extent, scope and variation of appellate simulation anywhere outside the United States could be identified; an unknown percentage of such law schools use appellate simulation. However, "mooting" is apparently very extensively practiced in England and Wales as the authors could not identify any British law school without a moot court program. Another indicator of the extent and fervor of mooting is a British Internet site dedicated to mooting: Mooting Net,athttp://www.mootingnet.org.uk. "Mooting" in Great Britain and other former colonies is almost exclusively undergraduate moot court, as law students in these countries are in pursuit of a baccalaureate degree. However, appellate simulations involving graduate students are also conducted by many British universities possessing graduate law programs. Two of the major British tournaments are the English-speaking Union/Observer/Lovett/White Durant National Mooting Competition, and the Blackstone/Herbert Smith/GTI Law Journal National Mooting Competition. A listing of law school moot programs in Great Britain and Wales can be found at the mooting Internet site mentioned above.
5. 3Major Canadian tournaments include the Gale Cup Moot, argued in Toronto each year and sponsored by the Canadian Bar Association, as well as the Laskin Moot, the Western Canada Moot, and the Aboriginal Moot Competition. E-mail exchanges with Dana Kingsbury, University of Saskatchewan Law School (Jan. 5-7, 2000) (Copies on file with author.).