Barristers' Council

the barristers' council is georgetown university law center's intramural and interscholastic advocacy competition organization. it qualifies, coaches, and fields the teams that represent georgetown at national and international appellate advocacy, mock trial, and alternative dispute resolution competitions. the barristers' council is a student organization originally chartered to run the legal research and writing program at the law center and to represent the school at interscholastic moot court (appellate advocacy) competitions. in the early to mid-1980s, when the school created a legal research and writing department, the council shifted its focus to fielding all of the law center's moot court teams. in the early 1990s, the council responded to an increased interest in trial advocacy skills and created the trial advocacy (mock trial) division. in 2001, the barristers' council added a third advocacy division, the alternative dispute resolution (adr) division, by merging with the adr