This book investigates the critical intersection between experiential legal education and law as an instrument of social change, emphasizing the transformative role of moot court advocacy in shaping legal consciousness and mobilization. It demonstrates how mooting serves as a dynamic pedagogical tool for developing advocacy skills, strategic litigation techniques, and rights-based approaches to justice. Positioning the moot court as the law student’s laboratory, the text underscores its importance in preparing future lawyers for professional realities. Students gain practical exposure to courtroom protocols, legal research, and drafting, while engaging with procedures before international judicial bodies such as the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Criminal Court.

This book is an essential resource for law students, legal educators, and practitioners seeking to integrate experiential learning, advocacy training, and social change theory into legal education.

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Azubike Chinwuba Onuora-Oguno is a distinguished Nigerian legal scholar and Professor specializing in international human rights law. He holds an LLB from the University of Ilorin in Nigeria, a BL from the Nigerian Law School, an LLM in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa and an LLD in International Human Rights Law from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Professor Azubike’s research focuses on the right to education, minority rights and socio-economic rights within African human rights frameworks. He has held visiting positions at several institutions, including Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Canada and the University of Torino in Italy. In 2025, he coached the JESSUP team of the University of Saskatchewan. Currently, Professor Azubike is an Adjunct Professor with the Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of the Free State in South Africa. As a socio-legal scholar, Professor Azubike engages with theories such as legal mobilization, struggle theory and public interest lawyering as tools for social engineering.