Law Tarheels win Charleston’s 12th annual national moot court competition
March 4, 2019
Runner-up in 14-team competition was from Regent University
A team of students from the University of North Carolina School of Law on Saturday won the 12th annual Charleston School of Law National Moot Court Competition. Runner-up was a team from Regent University School of Law.
UNC Law students Erica Bluford, Grant Figari and Alyssa Leader were named team champion in the Charleston School of Law’s 12th National Moot Court Competition. Members of Regent’s second-place team included Corrie Evans, Donna Kinney and Ashleigh Tiezsen.
“As part of its nationally-ranked advocacy program, the Charleston School of Law is proud to have hosted this exceptional national moot court competition,” said Dean Andy Abrams. “We extend our congratulations to all of the participating teams with particular recognition to the winners of this year’s competition– the team from the University of North Carolina.”
Fourteen teams from 11 law schools participated in the Charleston competition, which focused this year on whether a court erred in not overruling a jury’s decision in a defamation case and whether a related court order violated a defendant’s First Amendment right of free speech.
Best oral advocate for the competition was Sara Ungeheur of Seton Hall Law School. The Best Brief award was made to South Texas College of Law. Both Seton Hall and South Texas teams were semi-finalists.
Competitors participating in the two-day event included teams from:
- Elon University School of Law
- Florida State University College of Law
- George Mason University School of Law
- Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Mercer University School of Law
- Regent University School of Law
- Seton Hall Law School
- South Texas College of Law
- University of San Diego School of Law
- University of Maine School of Law
- University of North Carolina School of Law
The moot court competition is an appellate advocacy competition in which students argue before a panel of moot court judges drawn from the faculty at the Charleston School of Law, local attorneys and area judges. The student competitors argue points of law as though they were appearing before the United States Supreme Court.
- More information on the competition is here:
http://charlestonlaw.edu/2019-charleston-school-of-law-national-moot-court-competition/.
About the Charleston School of Law
The Charleston School of Law offers students the unique opportunity to study the time-honored practice of law amid the beauty and grace of one of the South’s most historic cities. Students at the Charleston School of Law study law as a profession and find a faculty focused on using the law as a calling in the public interest.
