Moot

A moot is an activity which law students may do in their spare time to practice their skills of oral argument and case preparation. It takes the form of a competitive discussion of a difficult point of law, likely relating to some hypothetical facts. ILSA has a list of International Law Moot Court Competitions (in ordinary English the adjective "moot" can mean that a question is still debatable - that is to say that there are differences of opinion on it...or (especially in the USA) that the question is not a practical issue but a merely academic one.