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The Competitive Moot Program allows interested students to participate in a variety of mooting competitions under the supervision of Faculty members and practitioners. McGill teams regularly participate in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot, Tribunal-École Pierre-Basile Mignault, Concours Charles Rousseau, Gale Cup Moot, Laskin Moot Court Competition, Corporate Securities Moot Competition, Wilson Moot, Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Moot, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, and Sopinka Cup. The Faculty has frequently won several of these competitions.

The following funds, which are administered by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, provide financial support to the competitive mooting teams representing McGill:

• The John G. Ahern, Q.C. Memorial Mooting Fund was established by the law firm of Ahern, Nuss and Drymer in 1979, in the name and memory of its distinguished founder (B.C.L. 1918), Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montreal and Quebec in 1955–56, and renowned and respected advocate pleader throughout his long career.
• The S. Leon Mendelsohn Mooting Fund was established by the partners of Mendelsohn in honour of their esteemed founder (B.C.L. 1924).
• The Richard and Hilda Golick Mooting Sponsorship, established in 1994 and funded by the proceeds from the Law and You Seminars, also provides financial assistance to students participating in competitive mooting.
• The McCarthy Tétrault Foundation donation to the Faculty in support of competitive mooting.
• The Robinson Sheppard Shapiro 90th Anniversary Fund.