FlaLaw » 2001 » February » 26 http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw University of Florida Levin College of Law Tue, 14 May 2013 15:50:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 UF shines at international moot court competition http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2001/02/uf-shines-at-international-moot-court-competition/ http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2001/02/uf-shines-at-international-moot-court-competition/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:32:15 +0000 wsmitty@ufl.edu http://www.law.ufl.edu/wpflalaw/?p=1442 UF’s International Moot Court Team came home regional runner-ups in the Phillip C. Jessup Southeast Regional Competition in Atlanta Feb. 16-18. The competition is the world’s largest and most prestigious moot court competition. More than 300 teams from 50 countries compete each year. This year’s team, led by Coach Jason Schneider, had high hopes and expectations. In each round of competition, three judges each awarded two points to the winning oralists and one point for the winning brief. A total of nine points were awarded in each round. In the first round, Brian Bell and Richard Mockler represented the Applicant, and defeated South Carolina 9-0. Brian Koch and Lara Peppard represented the Respondent, and defeated Florida State 6-3 in round two. Round three matched Bell and Mockler with University of Miami Respondents. The UF Applicant team defeated the Hurricanes 7-2. In the fourth round, UF Respondents faced a traditionally strong Stetson team. After 40 minutes of excellent arguments from Stetson, everyone was anxious to hear the UF response. Peppard exposed several weaknesses in the Stetson argument and Koch finished strong to win 5-4. Saturday night, the competition recognized the UF Briefs, and announced the team would move on to the semifinal round to face Alabama. After winning the coin-toss, Alabama chose to argue for the Applicant, and place their best team against UF. (Alabama’s Jessica Stetler had won Second Place Best Oralist in Saturday’s competition.) After both teams presented their primary arguments, everyone was sure the UF team was behind, but each team had five minutes of rebuttal remaining. Stetler limited rebuttal to Alabama’s strongest point, and Koch turned in the tournament’s finest performance by arguing for fairness and equity to prevail over the narrow rule of law. After an hour of deliberation, the judges agreed to send UF to the Championship Round to face Georgia. Georgia pitted the tournament’s Best Oralist against Mockler and Bell, who had outscored Saturday’s opponents by a combined score of 16-2. Because the Semi-Final judges required over an hour to reach a decision, Mockler and Bell had only 20 minutes to prepare for Georgia. Facing one of the competition’s most active benches, the UF Applicant team fielded 40 minutes of questions focused on fairness, rather than case law, custom, or the legal rule. On rebuttal, Mockler pointed out six occasions where Georgia took liberties with the law and facts,and asked the Court to maintain peace by enforcing international law. At the close of oral arguments, no one was certain who would be the Regional Champions. The judges announced that Georgia won the Championship by “a nose,” but the Florida team finished (5-1) and took home Regional Runner-up honors.

]]> http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2001/02/uf-shines-at-international-moot-court-competition/feed/ 0 Major players in 2000 election on campus for conference http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2001/02/major-players-in-2000-election-on-campus-for-conference/ http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2001/02/major-players-in-2000-election-on-campus-for-conference/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:51:54 +0000 wsmitty@ufl.edu http://www.law.ufl.edu/wpflalaw/?p=1439 Seminar to be webcast nationally

Key participants in Florida’s protracted 2000 Presidential Election are gathered in Holland Hall Auditorium today (Feb. 26) to examine legal, political and media aspects of the historic balloting. UF President Charles Young opens the session at 8 a.m., followed by law school Interim Dean Jon Mills, founding director of the Center for Governmental Responsibility, speaking on “Why Florida? What Brought Us Here?” Four panel sessions, with audience participation, are scheduled during the day. Participants include attorneys David Boies and Dexter Douglas, who represented Vice President Al Gore, and Joseph Klock Jr, who represented Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. National media reps, members of Gov. Jeb Bush’s Elections Task Force, state legislators and officials and academicians also are featured. (Complete agenda inside this issue of FlaLaw.) Thanks to efforts of WUFT-TV, the day-long conference will be Webcast nationally. The link: www.law.ufl.edu/news/webcast. An overflow viewing area has been set up on the concourse east of the auditorium. The conference, open to all law school students and faculty, is sponsored by the Levin College of Law, the UF Colleges of Journalism and Communications and Liberal Arts

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