Please join our mailing list and send us an email at contact@namcmootcourt.org with any questions you may have. We’re always happy to welcome new teams!

Yes! We welcome students from everywhere around the world. Currently, we have students from Shanghai, South Korea, Turkey, and Zimbabwe. If you are concerned about payment, competing across timezones, or anything else, we are always happy to chat and work towards a solution.

You’ve come to the right place. We have a step-by-step guide [LINK TBD] that explains U.S. Constitutional law, how to read cases, how to build an argument, drills, examples and more!

We also have a YouTube channel with workshops on specific topics meant for slightly more experienced competitors. You will also find recordings of full rounds from our National Championships so you can see moot court rounds in action.

The New Haven Virtual Regional is restricted to first time participants in NAMC oral argument tournaments. Aside from that exception, there are no other geographic or experiential restrictions on participating in any one of NAMC’s regional tournaments. Participating in one tournament does not disqualify a team from participating in another regional during the same season.

Please email your tournament host and cc NAMC with the number of teams you are withdrawing and the names of the students. If you submit your request before the refund deadline, we will refund you within 48 hours of the request.

You will receive an email from NAMC with the tournament that opened, the number of available spots, and a unique link to purchase registration. You will have three days from receiving the email to accept or decline your spot.

2025 Refund Deadline: 3pm EST Friday, January 10th

Yes! You may compete as an independent team so long as you are able to provide a primary contact who can handle electronic payment and email correspondance.

CLEs for judging high school moot court competitions are offered on a state-by-state basis depending on where you practice. Here are the most relevant states to our competition listed:

• California

• Georgia

• New York

These states do not offer CLEs for judging moot court:

• Connecticuit

• North Carolina

• Virginia

Your tournament host will send a final roster form out where you can lock in your final roster. If you have changes to make after you submitted this form, please email your tournament host directly.

Thank you for your interest! Email board@namcmootcourt.org with the tournament you are interested in judging for and we will connect you to the tournament director.

In some cases, a tournament may be attended by an odd number of teams. In this case, one team per round during the preliminary stage of the tournament will be selected to receive a “bye.” When a team receives a bye in a Swiss system tournament, it receives an automatic win, as if it had beat a real opponent. In a traditional round-robin tournament, a team will have the ballots they have won in the remainder of their preliminary rounds scaled proportionally. For instance, if a team is 2-2 after two rounds and receives a third round bye, its final record will be 3-3. No team will receive more than one bye in a tournament.