Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-26
STUDENTS EAGER /:
FOR MOOT COURT
Interest Keen in Annual Win a;
ter Procedure at Ma
tional University.

The Fall term in the law school of
National University was brought to
close last week with examinations
in all courses. Quarterly tests were
held in the school of economics and
government the previous week.
Both schools now are closed for the
holidays. Glasses for the Winter term
will begin on January 8. During the
holidays the administrative offices of
the university will remain open Cor
the registration of new students. The
library also will be open during that
period to permit students to do re-
search work.
Students of the law school eagerly
are looking forward to the opening
sessions of the moot court. which is
conducted during the Winter term.
The court, annually one of the most
popular features of the law school
courses. so closely resembles an ac-
tual tribunal of justice that the at
tendance by outsiders is showing a
large increase every year.
Regular Records Kept.
The courtroom itself is a reproduc-i
ton of one of the chambers of the
District of Columbia Supreme Court.
Prof. Willett, a practicing attorney
and member of the faculty, preSides
at the sessions of the moot court. and
there is a full staff of the usual court
officials. including a clerk and a crier.
Records are kept as in any regular
court of law. Members of the moot
court bar are regularly admitted when
properly qualified for practice before
the tribunal
The Fall term has been devoted to
questions of practice, including prep
aration of pleadings and settling of
such issues as arise in all litigation.
The moot court term now will be con-
cerned with a number of jury trials
involving legal and practical problems
of Importance.
The juries which will render YER
diets in all the cases to be tried are
drawn from members of the fresh
man class. The procedure in the Sc
lection of jurors is identical With that
in regular court. Witnesses are
chosen from among the junior class
membership.
Members of the moot court are
busy with preparation of their cases
and are locking forward to some in
teresting legal battles when the ses-
sions begin.
Lecture on Philippines.
Many of the students of the law
school are members of the newly
founded Philippine Juridical Society
of Washington. which held it's first
lecture last Sunday evening in the
assembly hall of the Y. NJ. C. A.
Judge Charles S. Lobingier, professor
of Roman and civil law at National.
was the speaker. His subject was
Blending Legal Systems in the Phil
ippines."
The lecturer emphasized the fact
that no lawyer could practice success
fully in the Philippine Islands unless
he has not only knowledge of Anglo
American law, but also Roman and
civil law. The lawyer in the Philip
pines, Judge Lobingier said. must be
a comparative lawyer, because in
certain parts of the islands there are
enforced certain principles of law
found in the Mohammedan countries
only. The attorney also must deal
with certain principles of the old Fill
pino customary law.
Five National University law grad .
yates have taken the Virginia bar eX-
animation with success. They are
Harry J. Archer. C. B. Green. George
Keck, w. w. Mackall and Frank NJ.
Steadman.