Kansas School of Law Takes National Honors in 30th Annual International Moot Court Competition at The John Marshall Law School
Nathan Lindsey and Christopher Omid of the University of Kansas School of Law placed first in the 30th Annual International Moot Court Competition Oct. 27 through 29, 2011.
The competition, hosted by The John Marshall Law School Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law (CITPL) in Chicago, brings together students from across the nation and abroad to argue emerging issues in the field. Edmund Luggen and Alec Kempster of Michigan State University College of Law placed second behind Lindsey and Omid.
This year’s problem involves a former mayor, well-loved by his constituents, who filed suit against a law student who recorded, without permission, information regarding a case the mayor was involved in. When the student published the recording online, the mayor’s words caught national attention and the mayor believes it affected the verdict of his case.
The problem presented in this year’s competition looks at a violation of an eavesdropping statute, tortuous interference with contractual relations claim, and the public disclosure of private facts following a reversal of summary judgment for the defendant, Donnie Dollar, according to Gina M. Spada, program coordinator for CITPL.
The winning briefs will be published in John Marshall’s Journal of Computer and Information Law.
Lindsey and Omid also won the category of Best Petitioner Brief.
Steven Osit, Darya Zuravicky and Elana Jacob of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law won the category of Best Respondent Brief.
Edmund Luggen, Michigan State University College of Law won the category of Best Oralist.
Malcolm Jezewski, Brynn Horner and Ryan van der Merwe of the Murdoch University School of Law in Australia were Ambassador Round Winners.
Shimolee Jhaveri and Spoorthi Priya Madhavaram of Gujarat National Law University in India were Ambassador Round Finalists.
Semi-finalists teams were Erik Baumann and Amanda Neugebauer of the Baylor Law School, and Osit, Zuravicky and Jacob of Cardozo; and Robert Carollo. John Marshall was one of the first law schools to offer a focus on information technology and privacy, when the area of study was referred to as “infomatics,” and shortly before the term “Internet” was coined.
Professor Emeritus George Trubow organized the program in information technology and privacy law in 1983 because he recognized computers were going to make it easier to store, share and eventually manipulate information raising serious legal issues.
Trubow founded the competition. It was first funded by a grant from the Benton Foundation in 1982, and in 1988 it was permanently endowed by the estate of Carl W. Carlson, a 1933 John Marshall Law School graduate.
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