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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD, no dust jacket as issued. No marks, Binding is tight and square. 46 / 34 pages, 23cm. . . . . . . FROM THE INTRODUCTION: The moot court system is especially designed to train students in the preparation and argument of cases. Technical training and legal research, brief writing and forensics form the foundation of moot court work, but the system gives in addition an even higher type of training. The moot court rule abolishes the system of precedents and compels argument of cases on their merits. The student must weigh the social factors and must concentrate upon the functioning of the rule of law. This makes the moot court an excellent laboratory for the testing and comparison of the older theories that the law is deductive, formal and arbitrary with the newer theory that the judge exercises a directive force to make law conform with social needs.…