Chicago-Kent cons way to win at Evans competition

No, not really. My friend Professor Kent Streseman at Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology runs an outstanding, clean program. It's just the best headline I could come up with for the Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition, so my apologies to him and his tremendous students for the cheap attempt at humor. They deserve better, especially after Professor Streseman kindly complimented my "cheesy jokes and funky puns" while pronouncing the death of his own blog today.

Anyway, Chicago-Kent took home its second-consecutive Evans trophy this past weekend, defeating South Texas College of Law in the final round. The John Marshall Law School (Chicago) and the University of Akron School of Law finished as semifinalists. Forty teams competed in the University of Wisconsin Law School-run tournament.

Both of Chicago-Kent's two teams swept the brief awards, with the championship team taking Best Respondent Brief, and a second team winning Best Petitioner Brief. Jay Reding of the University of St. Thomas School of Law claimed Best Oralist honors.

It was a good weekend for Chicago-Kent, which finished second at the Gibbons Criminal Procedure Competition in addition to its Evans championship.