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Well-Informed, Technically Sound, and of Public Concern: Chicago-Kent Wins JMLS Info Tech & Privacy Law Competition

Cherish Keller and Elaine Wyder-Harshman of Chicago-Kent College of Law won the 24th Annual John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology & Privacy Law, prevailing in the final round over the excellent team of Teresa Harrold, Elizabeth Perry, and Joshua Summers of Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University.

Ms. Keller and Ms. Wyder-Harshman of Chicago-Kent also won the award for Best Respondent's Brief. The winners of the award for Best Petitioner's Brief were Allyson Bennett, Christina Dallen, and David Kestenbaum of University of California Hastings College of Law.  The best-brief award winners will have their briefs published in The Journal of Computer & Information Law.

Noaman Azhar of Texas Tech University School of Law was honored as the tournament's best oralist.

Also advancing to the semifinals were teams from the top moot court programs in the nation:  Jennifer O'Brien, April Strahan, and Brianne Watkins of South Texas College of Law, along with Ms. Bennett, Ms. Dallen, and Mr. Kestenbaum of UC Hastings.

For several years, this tournament has drawn schools from around the world.  The tournament's Ambassador Round this year featured the top oralists among the field's international contingent.  The round was won by Eli Ball and Catherine Bond of Macquarie University Division of Law in Sydney, Australia; they prevailed over Sameer Pandit, Ananth Padmanabhan, and Deanne Uyangoda of National Law School of India University in Bangalore.

Now comes the self-serving information:

- Ms. Keller and Ms. Wyder-Harshman won despite the extra handicap of dragging the anchor that is the cranky, jumpy, easily confused director of their appellate advocacy program.

- This is Ms. Keller and Ms. Wyder-Harshman's second interscholastic win as a team:  last spring, they won the inaugural National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition in Los Angeles.

Cherish Keller and Elaine Wyder-Harshman of Chicago-Kent College of Law won the 24th Annual John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology & Privacy Law, prevailing in the final round over the excellent team of Teresa Harrold, Elizabeth Perry, and Joshua Summers of Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University.

Ms. Keller and Ms. Wyder-Harshman of Chicago-Kent also won the award for Best Respondent's Brief. The winners of the award for Best Petitioner's Brief were Allyson Bennett, Christina Dallen, and David Kestenbaum of University of California Hastings College of Law.  The best-brief award winners will have their briefs published in The Journal of Computer & Information Law.

Noaman Azhar of Texas Tech University School of Law was honored as the tournament's best oralist.

Also advancing to the semifinals were teams from the top moot court programs in the nation:  Jennifer O'Brien, April Strahan, and Brianne Watkins of South Texas College of Law, along with Ms. Bennett, Ms. Dallen, and Mr. Kestenbaum of UC Hastings.

For several years, this tournament has drawn schools from around the world.  The tournament's Ambassador Round this year featured the top oralists among the field's international contingent.  The round was won by Eli Ball and Catherine Bond of Macquarie University Division of Law in Sydney, Australia; they prevailed over Sameer Pandit, Ananth Padmanabhan, and Deanne Uyangoda of National Law School of India University in Bangalore.

Now comes the self-serving information:

- Ms. Keller and Ms. Wyder-Harshman won despite the extra handicap of dragging the anchor that is the cranky, jumpy, easily confused director of their appellate advocacy program.

- This is Ms. Keller and Ms. Wyder-Harshman's second interscholastic win as a team:  last spring, they won the inaugural National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition in Los Angeles.

Meet the New Boss: Chief Justice to Participate in GWU Competition

Chief Justice John Roberts will judge the final round in George Washington University Law School's internal Van Vleck Constitutional Law moot court competition, to be held in February 2006.  So far as folks at GW know, this will be his first Moot Court argument as Chief Justice.  The other judges on the panel are Guido Calabresi and Sonya Santomayor of the Second Circuit.  Hot panel.  Superhot, even.

GWU Students Win Intergalactic Title In Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot

Kristie Blase and Olivia Hussey of the George Washington University Law School won the world championship of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court, held October 21 in Fukuoka, Japan. 

Ms. Blase and Ms. Hussey argued in front of three sitting judges of the International Court of Justice in the final round.  They defeated Asia-Pacific regional winners from Singapore.  Earlier in the week, Ms. Blase and Ms. Hussey had defeated the European champs from Cambridge in the semifinals.

GW's account of the competition is here.  Kudos to it for including a groovy, artsy photograph of the winning team that kicks the stuffing out of the usual "people-in-suits-giving-Tom-DeLay-mugshot-smiles-while-holding-trophy" art we get in the moot court world (click here for self-serving example thereof).

Most importantly, Ms. Blase seems now to be the runaway winner of Mootness's 2005 Can't Stop Talking About You Award for Most Wins Reported on this Site in a Calendar Year.  As moot court junkies already know, this is Ms. Blase's third win of the year to get mad propz on Mootness:  last spring, in addition to winning the North American title in the Lachs Space Moot, she and Lynn Deavers of GWU won the National Animal Law Moot Court Competition.