Abstract
Mock trial programs in colleges do more than give students a taste of the lawyer’s life. At their best, they serve students: by connecting them to professional standards, by placing them in a competitive, though simulated, environment that requires critical thinking, teamwork, and resilience, and by giving students “authentic” learning activities not possible in the classroom. But in order to provide students with more than just a taste of litigation, one liberal arts school’s business program annually offers an open-enrollment, unscripted mock trial class that is both mock trial and full-scale litigation, complete with hours of depositions, tedious discovery, motion work, and court appearances. The course is replicable by other schools and is nothing short of experiential education on steroids.
Recommended Citation
Robert A. Kearney,
Unscripted Mock Trial and Full-Scale Litigation in a College Setting,
45
S. Ill. U. L.J.
233
(2021).
Available at:
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/siulj/vol45/iss2/2