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Law School activities for students

Students at all levels of legal study are encouraged to take part in the school's extracurricular activities.

Mooting

The Birkbeck Law School runs a highly successful mooting programme, open to all law students.

Mooting is a centuries-old form of advocacy training. It should be of interest to anyone wishing to practise advocacy of any kind, whether as a solicitor, barrister or for any other reason.

  • Programme format

    • The programme is split between mooting (civil jurisdiction) and mock trials (criminal) with internal competitions for both. It also prepares teams to compete against other institutions in external competitions. 
    • A team from Birkbeck's School of Law won the Oxford University Press and Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) National Mooting Competition 2017-18 and in 2019, another Birkbeck team triumphed in the finals of the Landmark Chambers' Property Law Moot competition, held at the Royal Courts of Justice.

  • Find out more

    • For more information on mooting activities, including the Birkbeck Mooting Team, please submit an ASK.
    • Students on the LLB Law programme are also able to choose 'Mooting and Trial Skills' as an option module in their final year.

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