William & Mary winner at Regent Constitutional Law competition

In what seems like an oddity to me, William & Mary Law School won the 8th Annual National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition held February 6-7, essentially trading trophies with Regent University School of Law -- the competition host and winner of last weekend's Spong competition at William & Mary. Elon University School of Law took second place in the tournament, which featured 12 teams from eight schools.

Elon also won the Best Brief Award. Tyler Smith of Roger Williams University School of Law won Best Oralist.

Full results are here, including a link to video of the final round. Elon's website write up is here, which also references its Best Brief Award at the Charleston School of Law National Moot Court Competition.

I should say, I am a bit concerned at what I can only hope is a mix-up by Elon's communications department. The "News" section of its law school website features an article titled "Elon Mock Trial advances to championship series in March." Unfortunately, the mock trial competition discussed in the article is for undergraduate schools, and not law students. That's not clear in the article itself, however, and given its placement on the law school's website, anyone not familiar with the American Mock Trial Association might attribute the undergraduate team's success to the law school. Of course, I guess it's possible that Elon has resorted to entering its law school teams into undergraduate competitions (ala Seinfeld's Cosmo Kramer's domination of a youth karate dojo), but I'll give them benefit of the doubt here that it's just an honest mix up by Elon's PR folks.