THE ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER PROGRAM IN APPELLATE ADVOCACY
Students selected for membership in Chicago-Kent's Moot Court Honor
Society are eligible to participate in the Ilana Diamond Rovner
Program in Appellate Advocacy in their second and third years. The
Rovner Program, named for United States Court of Appeals Judge Ilana
Diamond Rovner '66, consists of intensive course work in appellate
litigation, participation in intramural moot court competitions,
and representation of Chicago-Kent in national, regional, and local
interscholastic competitions. In their first semester in the program,
students enroll in Appellate Advocacy, a course providing advanced
individualized instruction in brief writing, oral argument, appellate
procedure, and sophisticated legal research topics. Each student
is assigned two personal mentors from a group including Chicago-Kent
faculty, members of the Society's Alumnae/i Advisory Council, and
third-year students in the Rovner Program. Students who display
excellence in Appellate Advocacy are selected to represent Chicago-Kent
in interscholastic competition, and the winners of the Fall intramural
competition receive partial scholarship awards funded by the law
school's Fay Clayton Endowment, named for this 1978 Chicago-Kent
graduate and successful appeals lawyer. All Chicago-Kent upper-class
students may seek advocacy training through the law school's clinical
and externship programs, including the law school's Program in Dispute
Resolution: Litigation and its Alternatives.
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