Ames Moot Court Competition 2017

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  • The Ames Competition, held in the historic Ames Courtroom of Harvard Law School, is one of the most prestigious competitions for appellate brief writing and advocacy in the country. The students participating in the Final Round started the competition in fall of their 2L year. Two teams progressed to the Final Round through their strong research abilities and excellent written and oral advocacy.
    This year’s case was Dylan Bloom v. United States of America. The presiding judges were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. '79, of the U.S. Supreme Court; Judge Debra Ann Livingston ’84 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Judge Carl E. Stewart of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
    The John Hart Ely Memorial Team (Petitioner)
    David Beylik
    Jason Ethridge (Oralist)
    Jenya Godina
    Isaac Park
    David Phillips (Oralist)
    Derek Reinbold
    The Fred T. Korematsu Memorial Team (Respondent)
    Frederick Ding (Oralist)
    Vivian Dong
    Henry Druschel
    Lydia Lichlyter (Oralist)
    Raeesa Munshi
    William Schmidt
    To view the history of the Ames Moot Court Competition, including decades of videos and info on past competitions, go to : hls.harvard.ed...

Komentáře • 126

  • @gam9986
    @gam9986 Před 6 lety +427

    These students who can deliver well-constructed and articulate arguments in front of the CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES have amazing futures in front of them.

    • @nateo200
      @nateo200 Před 6 lety +7

      Right?! One of them will end up as a private Advocate for a Supreme Court litigation firm or a Solicitor General and no doubt the Chief Justice will recognize the face even if he doesn't remember why, especially given how few advocates go before SCOTUS....I believe it is 1 MAYBE 2x the amount of cases they hear each year

    • @sebastianpinne2677
      @sebastianpinne2677 Před 5 lety +2

      @Almighty God George Soros #420 #GetRekd If you wanna sell your soul, yes!

    • @geethanjalibalaji5232
      @geethanjalibalaji5232 Před 4 lety

      One must do it no matter who is front of you

    • @bodbn
      @bodbn Před 4 lety +1

      All these hacks will end up as lobbyists. Elite privileged punks.

    • @cryptocanada3038
      @cryptocanada3038 Před 3 lety +1

      Totally agree. I'm still watching and the second speaker pretty much just put three judges back in their lanes on one point. Super exciting!

  • @Stlmetsfan55
    @Stlmetsfan55 Před 5 lety +204

    The first guy said “I would push back on that characterization” to the Chief Justice of the United States.
    That’s someone who is confident in his argument. Bravo.

    • @fabianloveslaw401
      @fabianloveslaw401 Před 4 lety +3

      Future...

    • @onebuffalo5402
      @onebuffalo5402 Před 3 lety +27

      Best case scenario is the Cheif Justice remembers your name/face and it gives you potential doors in the future. Worst case scenario it doesnt and he forgets you with no real consequence. Might as well go big and bold./

    • @angadsinghbhatia911
      @angadsinghbhatia911 Před 3 lety

      8

    • @milessalley8871
      @milessalley8871 Před 2 lety +6

      @@fabianloveslaw401 Its so funny because he became Roberts is law clerk this term😂

    • @dragonflarefrog1424
      @dragonflarefrog1424 Před rokem

      @@milessalley8871Is he? I looked it up and he currently doesn’t mention clerking for John Roberts on his lawfirm profile.

  • @Bergen98
    @Bergen98 Před 4 lety +45

    Me - afraid to talk with my normal professor in med school
    These students - arguing in front of CHIEF JUSTICE OF USA

    • @whitenova754
      @whitenova754 Před rokem +1

      Even moreso- arguing WITH the Chief Justice of the US

  • @michaelchan4811
    @michaelchan4811 Před 6 lety +160

    I understand the words but not the sentences.

    • @sterlincharles8357
      @sterlincharles8357 Před 6 lety +12

      😂 priceless comment

    • @nanago7105
      @nanago7105 Před 5 lety +1

      me 2

    • @rentiap
      @rentiap Před 4 lety +5

      I comprehend both the words and the sentences, But I do not understand them.

    • @Reply_if_you_gay
      @Reply_if_you_gay Před 4 lety +4

      Every fucking moot video I go to there’s always some dumb ass commenting this exact comment.

    • @bodbn
      @bodbn Před 4 lety

      Elite gobbledygook

  • @jess_bounce
    @jess_bounce Před 6 lety +64

    I have the first round of moot court tryouts today. I’m so nervous. Can’t imagine doing this in front of the Chief Justice of the United States.

    • @nicomaier1654
      @nicomaier1654 Před 5 lety

      Jessica S how did it go?

    • @vinceiswatchingyou
      @vinceiswatchingyou Před 5 lety +7

      Jessica S imagine them in the underpants

    • @fabianloveslaw401
      @fabianloveslaw401 Před 4 lety +1

      I would be happy to demonstrate in argument my perspective on a case because of the opportunities...

  • @hughmac13
    @hughmac13 Před 4 lety +14

    I'm going to go out on a limb here to guess that the "very compelling" dissent to which Roberts alludes at 29:13 was his own.

  • @2Truth4Liberty
    @2Truth4Liberty Před 6 lety +16

    Magistrate Judge accepting guilty plea in felony case (under Federal Magistrate Act) - - -
    Even if the initial Magistrate decision accepting a guilty plea is with consent of the defendant
    is a timely(?) motion to withdraw guilty plea a prima facie withdrawl of consent to find guilty?
    (At the very least, such a motion would seem to raise a question about whether consent was truly voluntary.)
    So, when is it "too late" to withdraw consent for a magistrate to perform adjudication?

  • @OiVinn-eq1ml
    @OiVinn-eq1ml Před 6 lety +38

    This was brutal yet informative

  • @BrOaDwAy3030
    @BrOaDwAy3030 Před 3 lety +7

    Lowkey didn't hear him say your honour to Justice Debra...especially on the subject of women in the draft

  • @hdaaap
    @hdaaap Před 6 lety +87

    i'd be scared to appear in front of john roberts.

    • @yevgeniyzharinov7473
      @yevgeniyzharinov7473 Před 6 lety +11

      it gets easier if you know what you are talking about.

    • @olliepayne5545
      @olliepayne5545 Před 3 lety

      Yevgeniy Zharinov amen

    • @olliepayne5545
      @olliepayne5545 Před 3 lety +1

      He doesn’t seem intimidating to me ... you see him asking fair questions but also giggling.

    • @jonalderson5571
      @jonalderson5571 Před 3 lety +1

      John Roberts is probably the single most intimidating person I have seen

    • @yevgeniyzharinov7473
      @yevgeniyzharinov7473 Před 3 lety +2

      @@jonalderson5571 More than Mike Tyson?

  • @hanyeul1
    @hanyeul1 Před rokem +2

    just amazing to realize again that human brain can perform so much like this.

  • @patrickjohnson6823
    @patrickjohnson6823 Před 3 lety +2

    It's complicated. *rewinds & scratches head* It would be easier if I understood what is law. Very very good speakers. I'm wanna see all of them.

  • @an0n71
    @an0n71 Před 3 lety +3

    It’s certainly be in my argument that they need to repaint that side of the podium because all hands have been touching it and so its paint has been fading.
    But, Amazing lawyers!👏🏼

  • @nateo200
    @nateo200 Před 6 lety +31

    Are there briefs in PDF form for both sides? If so where

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    the facts of the case are important, not comparing one case to another

  • @noveullotus
    @noveullotus Před 6 lety +12

    Have been waiting for this

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    f she was unsure of the dates and years, she should say so, so they can be reviewed at a later date

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    I feel like a lot of the students are using terms they read, but dont fully understand

  • @chessandmathguy
    @chessandmathguy Před 4 lety +4

    I do wonder if you can find Harvey Specter or Louis Litt sitting in the crowd.

  • @jimmybass375
    @jimmybass375 Před 6 lety +9

    Well done Jason.

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    i feel the judge is comparing what case he thinks is "more imortant than another case"

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    yes, they should not alter what already exists......????

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    I feel that recently my coc has recently done a pretty good job of weighing my time at work with my parental obligations

  • @fabianloveslaw401
    @fabianloveslaw401 Před 4 lety +13

    Havard Law School, thanks for sharing this video. And congratulations to all who participated in the Ames Competition! The oral arguments are spectacular because it gives me an insight into all the hard work they put into their research, writings and many hours of practicing oral arguments and reciting what is required for the case which is the subject of the argument. Be that as it may, if anyone was paying close attention to not only the different perspective of the argument but the audience as well; if you look to the far right near the wall, you'll see a white in black holding a grayish object that appears to be an iPhone that he may, or may not had used to take a picture of the second male student making his argument. If you'd like to see, please fast forward the video, or rewind until you reach the time, "30:51." The purpose of my statement if I am not mistaking, I thought that taking pictures wasn't allowed during the arguments... If he was taking a picture, or not taking a picture.

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    She talks about dates and years, but doesn't say what those dates and years are

  • @sofiafrankielin1662
    @sofiafrankielin1662 Před 5 lety +6

    The first guy got grilled by John Roberts so much

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    in 2008-2009 i wanted to be a green Baret, as a female, but couldn't. in airborne school, it was about 2 females to every 250 males

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    despite the discrimination, it was a wonderful experience i was fully qualified for

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    what is a "discreet violation"?

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    what does the judge mean a "better case"?

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    what is a "petitioners registration period"?

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    why does she say "secondly" instead of "and"

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    I think he doesn't fully understand what air defense artillery is

  • @masilophoko8478
    @masilophoko8478 Před 5 lety +5

    Stare Decisis : stand by decisions taken.
    Am I correct?
    First year law student here in South Africa.

    • @giovannikichimbomosquera577
      @giovannikichimbomosquera577 Před 5 lety

      Yes you are right

    • @ramaemamaema5285
      @ramaemamaema5285 Před 2 lety

      Correct. But the underpinnings of that doctrine are somewhat shaky when you begin to give them heightened scrutiny. You must listen to Dobbs v Jackson oral arguments. The conservative Justices really proved to me that this really has no standing. Alito and Clarence especially

    • @anthonyiuculano6002
      @anthonyiuculano6002 Před rokem

      Yes

  • @nateo200
    @nateo200 Před 6 lety +2

    YES! Been looking forward to this!

  • @an0n71
    @an0n71 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow the best of the moot😲

  • @thomasgorges2827
    @thomasgorges2827 Před 2 lety

    How about ask them who or what case they want to represent

  • @user-fq8kv5wb7z
    @user-fq8kv5wb7z Před 6 měsíci

    What kind of people are in the United States?

  • @roelescamilla6022
    @roelescamilla6022 Před 4 lety +2

    What’s fascinating is that while the court wanted to know the specific numbers of “slots” for combat roles, or when women could “serve” in combat; but that really irreverent in today’s military and war fighting theaters. Women by default serve in combat roles regardless of their combat role eligibility.

    • @bodbn
      @bodbn Před 4 lety

      Unless it's actual combat. Not just sitting at a joystick or computer. I mean 99.9 percent of combat deaths continue to be male. Liberals love to play with definitions.

    • @roelescamilla6022
      @roelescamilla6022 Před 4 lety +1

      Ryan no one is playing with definitions. In theaters like Afghanistan and Iraq or most mordant warfare the idea of combat zones based on “battle lines” are simply not as easy to define. I personally know women who have been under fire even though they were not technically in a “combat zone.” That is the nature of today’s war fighting. There is also the idea that women cannot serve in specific roles because they are closed to them, but women are in fact doing those roles in theater but not being give the MOS designation.

    • @IHWKR
      @IHWKR Před 2 lety

      As a veteran you are sorely mistaken as to what a combat role is. Your friend was certainly not infantry, certainly nothing related to direct combat. One can serve in a combat zone and still not be a combatant. Women by default are pampered in the military. Men an dwomen are held to two different physical fitness tests, the male's being much harder that the female's. Some women albeit very few have the capacity to withstand the rigors of true combat and frankly, even then I am hesitant to serve beside a woman in a combat role for a number of reasons but that is here nor there.
      I'm am curious as to her MOS/AFSC and where she was deployed. For all we know she could have been finance and some outsider just decided to pop off a round.

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    I feel lie they "memorized" what the read which would be on the test, but they dont really "understand " what it means

  • @footballchanalofficia3575

    Yes

  • @danhilbert6163
    @danhilbert6163 Před 3 lety

    Since the United States has an all volunteer army, navy and air force, it is redundant and unnecessary to compel any citizen to register or submit his/her name to any office of governmental affairs.

    • @whitenova754
      @whitenova754 Před rokem

      It's so that when they need to make it mandatory, and not just volunteer, such as in a time of war, they're able to actually get it done.

  • @Leo-wt1cb
    @Leo-wt1cb Před 4 lety +5

    2:34 O YE O YE OYE

  • @tienmai737
    @tienmai737 Před 6 lety +1

    GREAT

  • @lucaslivingstone-sitch5443

    Lord tell me i'm related to her so I can have an "in" to law school . . . haha

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    I dont think is a "need" of a percentage of women, its any woman who wants to register, can

  • @StJP-hh2zb
    @StJP-hh2zb Před 2 lety +1

    Korematsu.

  • @rentiap
    @rentiap Před 4 lety

    If one has not elected to be a United States citizen, nor has one resided on territory or other property owned by the United States.
    Must one register for the draft?

    • @sphaleriteme
      @sphaleriteme Před 4 lety +2

      just checked and immigrant non-US citizens are required to be registered as well...interesting

  • @MahmutAyabakan
    @MahmutAyabakan Před 15 dny

    Davis Gary Johnson Timothy Williams Kenneth

  • @gamingwithstick7166
    @gamingwithstick7166 Před 2 lety +2

    Declare Tejinder singh a legend

  • @an0n71
    @an0n71 Před 3 lety +1

    2nd petitioner guy should compete with Amanda, they could have a fair square 🤣

  • @matthewchunk3689
    @matthewchunk3689 Před 3 lety +2

    my question: if.bloom was so innocent, why'd he have to hire a bunch of uckin lawyers??

  • @euphegenia
    @euphegenia Před 6 lety +6

    This kid is a genius.

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    i did everything the men did

  • @aninyjob8485
    @aninyjob8485 Před 6 lety

    Amazing

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    most females never makes it past e4 spc in army

  • @y30758
    @y30758 Před 9 měsíci

    frederick ding stone cold

  • @manuelsedillo9489
    @manuelsedillo9489 Před 4 lety +1

    Im in an crazy insanity 51/50.,IF,Only scooby1961 were here :/.

  • @AttatlawNakornDivarangkoon

    great knowledge

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    the fact that he thinks ada is combat makes it almost laughable

  • @VP-km1ru
    @VP-km1ru Před 2 lety

    i have no idea what theyre saying or what im watching! it's like doing drugs without actually doing drugs but twice the hallucination. does anyone else know what theyre saying or talking about? just stringing together random words to make nonsensical sentences.

    • @bennyksmusicalworld
      @bennyksmusicalworld Před 6 měsíci

      Just because it doesn’t make sense to you doesn’t mean they don’t know what they’re talking about. After all, they’re the best of the best at Harvard Law to speak in front of CJOTUS.

  • @johnfitzgerald1192
    @johnfitzgerald1192 Před 11 měsíci

    34:24: He compares Same sex marriage in the Church to smoking cigarette's. That it is legal for anyone over the age of 18 to purchase cigarette's, but you can't smoke inside the church. It should be the same for those whose been Practicing Christianity and baptized in the Faith. He believes their are some people who don't take the faith seriously and then theirs those who do. And for those who don't take the faith serious they are the ones who wants to ridicule the faith.
    The Constitution of America since the days of long ago has always protecting Religious freedoms and Practices from outsiders (anti-Christians) and businesses.

  • @milankaszas9478
    @milankaszas9478 Před 4 lety

    what's going on with that baby?

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    ADA compared to combat LOL

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    ada is not combat lol

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    Shes using alot of big words that dont actually mean anything

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    age isnt even so much a consideration

  • @dwayneday2895
    @dwayneday2895 Před 3 lety

    Reserve right of quarm
    Mental objective weaker the in woman pramatoal role at to man at merge of catrical thinking at higher then a third of male role of combat

  • @thomas9152
    @thomas9152 Před 4 lety +1

    I would never do moot

  • @shandydavidutterback4827
    @shandydavidutterback4827 Před 3 lety +3

    I wonder what it would be like if Ben Shapiro student presenting..hmmm

    • @jacobmorrison6545
      @jacobmorrison6545 Před 3 lety +2

      “Lets say hypothetically there are women in some hypothetical combat role for the sake of argument...”

  • @willgardner6477
    @willgardner6477 Před 6 lety +6

    Professional candidate vs. Unprofessional judges

    • @anthonyiuculano6002
      @anthonyiuculano6002 Před rokem +3

      Unprofessional how? Because they speak more simplistically? Maybe they've understood already that speaking more eloquently doesn't help make one's argument more compelling

  • @user-ek9vg8eo1j
    @user-ek9vg8eo1j Před 4 měsíci

    it seems to me, this is a violation of human rights, s women are human, and give birth to children and rear children

  • @deanhoward4142
    @deanhoward4142 Před 6 lety +2

    Ding Dong the witches are dead

  • @jhuff20
    @jhuff20 Před 5 lety +8

    Nerds

    • @judyanddy
      @judyanddy Před 4 lety +12

      What makes them nerds besides hard working students?

  • @clareowen2047
    @clareowen2047 Před 2 lety +1

    Boring