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This year's Beaudry Competition will be held
during the spring semester. Registered competitors will be able to access
a more detailed calendar as well as this year's
packet, competition rules, and results on our
password-protected 2009 Beaudry Competition webpage. Please check back in the early spring for
further information.
Barristers' Council Alumni are encouraged
to read about past Beaudry Cup Champions and post
any memories of past competitions on our Alumni
Page.
CLICK HERE for Beaudry 2008 results |
The Beaudry Moot Court Competition has been held
at Georgetown University Law Center since 1952. It is
named in honor of Robert J. Beaudry, killed in a tragic
accident in the spring of his first year, who distinguished
himself by virtue of his outstanding enthusiasm, scholarship,
and ability in oral argument.
The Beaudry Competition is open to all Georgetown
Law first-year day and evening students. It is held
in the spring semester and based on a closed packet.
Participating students are assigned to either Petitioner's
or Respondent's side and provided with all of the materials
necessary to submit an appellate brief and argue their
case. They argue both "on" and "off" brief as they advance
to higher rounds.
The preliminary rounds, which are judged by three-
to five-person panels of Barristers' Council members,
are scored using both the brief scores and the oral
argument scores of each competitor. The final round
is scored based on oral argument alone, and is judged
by prominent local and federal judges.
The Beaudry Competition and its LLM-and-upper-class-JD counterpart,
the Leahy Competition, are
well-suited to students who enjoy the challenge of writing
an appellate brief and prefer the conversational and
deferential tone that is generally employed when answering
judges' questions.
Winners have their name inscribed on the Beaudry
Cup, which is on permanent display outside the moot
court auditorium.
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