1. Go to a pro-moot law school with an independent moot court board.我个人对moot court board的理解就是moot club。2. During your time on the moot court board, support your team.比如尽可能地帮队友搞搞practice rounds之类的。3. Read and study the facts upon the release of the Problem. Choose a theme unifying the issues that an intelligent nonlawyer will understand.4. Practice oral argument before finishing the brief.一般来说是在提交memo之后才开始联系oral，不过既然作者写到，大家可以试试看。
5. Practice with a variety of judges using a variety of questioning styles, especially tough and aggressive questions.这一点也很有意思。鉴于practice的目的之一是build a question list，很多时候就会过于强调训练时对question数量的拓展，而忽视questioning style diversification。如果在训练时就能采用多种questioning style的话，真正上场的时候也不会那么慌了吧。
6. Give the practice-round judges good briefs written by opposing competitors who wrote for the side against which you are arguing.我的理解是，如果oral rehearsal是judge-to-unilateral-advocate的，那么另一方需要向judge提供己方的brief，以最好地扩张每一次训练的效果。
7. Further research questions after practice.8. Take advantage of competition rules to earn the maximum score while complying with them.其实有点鸡贼了。不过moot和real-life advocacy也确实不一样，在不违规的情况下尽量利用好规则也没问题。
9. Study the judges’ scoring sheet and alter your argument style accordingly.这样的话，rehearsal的时候其实可以搞一个quasi-scoring sheet，judge一边审一边打分，这样可以量化每次rehearsal的质量。
10. Study opposing competition briefs.11. Teach your teammates to be great speakers.“You are only as good as your weakest teammates. The more you coach your teammates, the more you will learn about what a moot court judge appreciates in a moot court advocate.”换句话说就是oralists之间要互帮互助的意思。不要单打独斗。之前还只是讲录音，现在直接快进到录像了。不过这样也好，可以对仪态表情之类的进行追踪。
13. Scope out the moot court room.上场前熟悉房间。相当于在virtual hearing时期提前调试好设备选好背景打好光。14. Stand when the judges enter the room.基本礼仪问题。之前法律竞赛的编辑Helen L.写过一篇vismoot庭审礼仪稿，供大家参考。
15. Quietly push in your chair, go to the podium, and await the chief’s signal before beginning.感觉作者带过的moot是要去台子上单独发言。我自己见过的moot基本都是椅子+桌子坐着delivery就行了。不过在挪椅子的时候不要发出太大声音也很重要就是了。
16. Start with a strong and short introduction and roadmap.17. Never ask the court whether it wants to hear a brief recitation of the facts or whether it is happy with your answer.换句话说，直击重点就行。以及不要问whether the court has more questions或者说if the court/panel/arbitrators have no further questions——把court进一步问问题的任何可能都给堵死。
18. Never begin with “This case is about...”.假如你总结的theme和judge想的theme不一样，your roadmap will probably be ruined by a hostile question or comment from the Court. 由于我没有过类似经历，所以也无从判断该tip好坏。大家按需取用即可。
19. Speak in simple and plain English as if talking to a smart high-school student.我真的会笑……Court：好了我知道你们都把我当高中生。20. Stay in the moment and focus.21. Speak slowly and conversationally, lower your speaking pitch, and project from the diaphragm.Diaphragm是横膈膜的意思。参加过合唱团的mooter有福了，因为他们早已熟悉如何从腹部发声（不过腹部发声学起来也很快就是了。作者会比较强调lower speaking pitch我是没料到的，不过仔细一想也确实蛮有道理——音调较低的声音听起来会更沉稳一些（胡乱分析）。
22. Make eye contact with every judge.23. Do not use adverbial excesses like “clearly” and “obviously”.24. Do not compliment a judge by saying “That is an excellent question.”这种情况我真的见过。现场大家都很尴尬。可以微笑点头以表示“嗯这个问题真不错”，但是不要说出来。不-要-说-出-来。
25. Do not say, “As I argued previously” or “With all due respect.”前者听上去是在回避问题，后者听上去有点阴阳怪气——“对不起，我实在受不了你们了，但由于你们是Court我是counsel，所以我不得不强压怒火表现出对你们的尊敬。”
27. Keep your feet planted in one place.28. Do not distract with hand gestures, except to use practiced, theatrical, and very occasional hand gestures like steepling or palms-down movements, always at chest level or below.建议refer to tip 12以解决此问题。以及个人觉得steepling有点做作。建议全脱稿。如果实在要用，in a bullet-point form.30. Stop immediately to answer a judge’s question.不要跟judge说“Let me finish this point before answering your question”或者“I’ll get to it later”。会死得很惨的。
31. Answer every question beginning with a “yes” or “no” whenever possible.如果judge问的是一般疑问句，不要顾左右而言他。先yes/no了之后再说理。你是在oral，不是在做学术分析，不需要理客中（不是。
32. Answer multiple questions in some logical order.33. Do not repeat a judge’s question.Never get defensive. 不过这也要求赛前好好准备question list才行。35. Know thoroughly the procedural history and the facts of the case.36. Seize the nettle by addressing the other side’s arguments in advance.37. A good way to rebut: note a judge’s question to counsel for the other side and explain why you disagree with it.38. Cover all major arguments.就是说，回答judge的问题很重要，但是要保证自己的delivery能做完。39. Move to the next point after answering a question. Eg. “And that brings me to my next point.”Transition的方式很多，在rehearsal阶段要多练习，并且让arguments在脑海中以roadmap的形式排列——条条大路通罗马嘛。
40. Concede fact, law, and argument when doing so does not matter much or when you can argue that you win regardless of the concession. Never concede something important.妥协的艺术。如果不得不妥协+妥协了也能赢，那可以妥协。否则一定要死守阵地。
41. Do not pause after answering a question.尤其在virtual hearing时期……“Sorry, but are you frozen?”42. Avoid lengthy or numerous quotations.43. Just give the name of the court and the date of the decision.Do not give full citation to a case. 能精简就精简，能省时就省时44. Do not cite a case unless you know the facts.赛前一定做好case study。建议各赛队除了question list，也常备case list。
45. Avoid planned jokes and overblown metaphors.46. Do not talk or fidget when others are speaking.礼仪问题。Be a good speaker. Be a good listener.47. Drink water before starting. If parched, drink while a judge asks a question.其实我个人是觉得，在被问问题的时候喝水也不怎么礼貌。尽量还是在自己不发言的时候补充水分吧。
48. Oral argument is having a conversation rather than debating.So speak conversationally.49. Never personally attack or embarrass a moot court adversary and do not comment on the adversary’s minor mistake.一个歪门邪道的解释：不要抓住对手的minor mistake不放。高手，从来都是一击致命（。
50. Respect the time card. Do not give a canned conclusion when the time is up, but say “I see that my time is up” and ask the panel for permission to finish the only short sentence left.如果剩得太多没说，那我只能说没办法了。训练的时候要做好time management.
51. Do not slow down or take anything for granted until you win the competition.52. Wholeheartedly want to win.53. When you are done competing, coach a team.54. Buy silver polish to show off your winning trophies.55. Return as an alumnus to support your alma mater’s moot court program.毕业后尽可能地支持母校的moot program。多多帮忙，多多传帮带。