Emory Moot Court Society is a competitive, student-run organization that provides experiential opportunities to develop oral advocacy and brief-writing skills.
Membership
Membership in Emory Moot Court Society is open to all full-time students, properly enrolled in Emory Law with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.35 and who satisfy the requirements of the membership listed below. Students enrolled in any joint JD degree program may be eligible for membership, provided that all other eligibility requirements are met. First-year students participate in the Stange 1L Competition each spring for the opportunity to gain membership in the society.
Moot Court Society is comprised of 2L, 3L, and AJD members. All members must successfully compete in one intraschool competition and one interschool competition. On the basis of their brief-writing and oral advocacy scores in an intraschool competition, competitors will be placed on one of our competition teams, which travel to and compete in various interschool moot court competitions around the country.
Faculty policy states other students and student organizations may not use the Emory name in connection with a publication or interschool competition team without the consent of the Dean's office. Emory Law maintains an active interest in any function held on or off campus in which the name of Emory University School of Law is used.
Advisors
Paul Koster teaches Introduction to Legal Analysis, Research, and Communications, Introduction to Legal Advocacy, Introduction to the American Legal System, Legal Profession, and Administrative Law. He also serves as the faculty advisor to the Emory Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Program and the Emory Law Moot Court Society. Koster is the Chair of the Pro Bono Committee for the Legal Writing Institute for the 2024-2026 term and has served as a visiting faculty member at the Peking University School of Transnational Law and the University of Warsaw Center for American Law Studies. Koster practiced law for nearly twenty years, including ten years as managing partner of a boutique Atlanta law firm which he co-founded. Following law school, he served as a staff attorney for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Stephanie Duncan-Peters of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Gerry Weber is principal in The Weber Law Offices and focuses on constitutional, civil rights, libel and media law, and general litigation and is also the faculty advisor for Emory's Civil Rights and Liberties Moot Court Competition due to his expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. Weber served for seventeen years as legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. He also currently serves as a senior staff counsel at the Southern Center for Human Rights and is an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law and Georgia State College of Law in constitutional litigation
R. David Gallo is a litigator, arbitrator, and mediator based in Atlanta, Georgia. David is Of Counsel at Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Atlanta International Arbitration Society. Prior to moving to Atlanta, he practiced at two leading international law firms in New York City and served as a law clerk to a Judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade. David is an adjunct professor at Emory Law School, and he previously held the same position at Fordham Law School. David is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he served as an editor for the American Review of International Arbitration, a teaching fellow in Columbia’s Mediation Clinic, and a member of the Vis Moot Court team. David has been involved in the Vis Moot Court – first as a competitor, then as a coach and arbitrator – for the past 13 years.