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Chicago-Kent places second in Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition
CHICAGO–April 2, 2009--Chicago-Kent students Emily Kepner and Kara Schuur took second place in the 16th annual John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition, held March 28 and 29 at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey.
Moot Court Honor Society team members Emily Kepner '10 and Kara Schuur '09 placed second in the 2009 John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition
The competition, which involved 37 teams, focuses on timely issues of criminal procedure and criminal law. This year, students argued a case related to a criminal defendant’s Fourth and Sixth Amendment rights following his arrest after a routine traffic stop.
Chicago-Kent posted strong performances in preliminary round matchups against University of Detroit - Mercy and Boston University. After elimination-round victories over Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, Southwestern University, and St. Thomas University, Chicago-Kent lost to a team from Albany Law School by a mere 0.5-point margin. Judge John J. Gibbons presided over the final round of competition along with Hon. Michael Shipp, U.S. Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; and Seton Hall Law School professor John B. Wefing.
Chicago-Kent team member Emily Kepner is a second-year student who graduated cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in psychology. Teammate Kara Schuur, the winner of Chicago-Kent’s 2008 Ilana Diamond Rovner Moot Court Competition, is a third-year student who earned an undergraduate degree in communications and journalism from Northern Illinois University. The team was coached by third-year students Andrew Booth and Brody Dawson, who are members of Chicago-Kent’s 2009 National Moot Court Competition championship team.
The competition is named for John J. Gibbons, former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Gibbons, who served on the Court of Appeals from 1970 to 1990, has written more than 800 published opinions, a number of which appear in law school casebooks. He has also published more than twenty law review articles. He formerly taught Constitutional Law and other subjects at Seton Hall University Law School, where he held the Richard J. Hughes Chair in Constitutional Law until June, 1997. Upon his retirement from the bench, Judge Gibbons rejoined his old firm, now Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, and has headed the firm's alternative dispute resolution group and its appellate practice group.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent’s advocacy programs have a tradition of excellence. Chicago-Kent is the only law school ever to win the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year (2008), and the first school in more than 30 years to win the National Moot Court Competition in two consecutive years (2008 and 2009). This year, Chicago-Kent's Moot Court Honor Society teams have earned eight final-round placements in national and regional competitions and won five titles.
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