Helpful Materials

This section has helpful materials, including previous Best Brief Award-winning briefs from previous competitions, and links to other helpful sites.

Best Brief Winners from the 2024 McBaine Competition:

• 2024 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2024 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2021 McBaine Competition:

• 2021 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2021 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2020 McBaine Competition:

• 2020 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2020 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2019 McBaine Competition:

• 2019 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2019 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2018 McBaine Competition:

• 2018 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2018 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2017 McBaine Competition:

• 2017 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2017 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2016 McBaine Competition:

• 2016 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2016 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2015 McBaine Competition:

• 2015 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2015 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2014 McBaine Competition:

• 2014 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2014 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2013 McBaine Competition:

• 2013 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2013 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2012 McBaine Competition:

• 2012 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2012 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2011 McBaine Competition:

• 2011 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2011 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2010 McBaine Competition:

• 2010 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2010 Best Respondent Brief

Best Brief Winners from the 2009 McBaine Competition:

• 2009 Best Petitioner Brief
• 2009 Best Respondent Brief

Briefs from the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States:

•  http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/search.html

Audio from Supreme Court Oral Arguments:

•  http://www.oyez.org

Video of Other Moot Court Competitions:

• 2010-2011 McBaine Moot Court Competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuSLztzCAQ8
• 2008-2009 McBaine Moot Court Competition:
  • YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8uI3S0fkJs
  • University website: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?seriesid=39b91510-89ff-4ec6-8288-17c0f877e1a1
• 1993-1994 McBaine Moot Court Competition (R.B. Ginsburg, C.J.; C.H. Hall, J.; J.L. Kennard, J.):
• 2009 George Washington University Law School, Constitutional Moot Court:
• 2008 University of Virginia Law School, William Minor Lile Mot Court Competition
• 2006 George Washington University Law School, Jacob Burns Van Vleck Moot Court competition
• 1995 Harvard Law School, Ames Moot Court Competition