Congratulations to Lewis & Clark Law School, which won the 21st Annual National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition at Pace Law School this past weekend. The Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University and the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah finished the 70-team tournament as finalists. For those unfamiliar with Pace, the problem is three-sided, so each round actually consists of three teams.
The University of Houston Law Center took home the Best Overall Brief trophy, and Charlotte Youngblood of LSU won Best Oralist.
More results are here. I'll update this post with the semifinalists once Pace posts them.
For Lewis & Clark, the win is its second straight, and third since 2004 (it also was a finalist in 2007). Meanwhile, the victory will instantaneously make it lawschooladvocacy.com's "top moot court program" of 2009. As I've said here numerous times before, that site's oversimplified points system places entirely too much emphasis on Pace (and other large, single-stage tournaments, such as the 50-or-so-team Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition). An example of the ridiculousness: Lewis & Clark, with its 2008 win, finished last year as a "top 25" moot court "program" despite accumulating a total of ZERO points at any other competition.
February 23, 2009
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