The importance of moot courts in lawyer’s formation

Abstract

This socio-legal research aims to identify the evolution of teaching and learning methods of law. It focuses on those that offer mechanisms that provide the student, future lawyer, with effective tools to solve the different types of conflicts that arise in the legal field, in the areas of law practice following the social changes generated by the reforms in the modality in which the procedural and procedural steps are developed in the Colombian State. Consequently, a critical bibliographical study is carried out on the information collected through primary and secondary sources, that analyses qualitatively and quantitatively the importance of judicial simulation models in the training of lawyers. The demands of the sociopolitical transformations are taken into account, while the transversality of human rights is considered, as much as its imperative observation and application in jurisdictional processes and administrative procedures in which students, once graduated, will act as lawyers. We also consider the theoretical and practical preparation they have on the rights and obligations of people within the legal system, and the argumentative exercise, fundamental in litigation. Therefore, we propose a transition from the moot courts as a supplementary technique, to one of vital complementarity for the effective exercise of the functions of professional litigants, which should therefore be implemented in university academic curricula from Colombia.