The Campbell University School of Law won the 2007 William E. McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition held at the University of Minnesota Law School. The team of Jamie Gentry, Stephanie Evans, and Jennifer Kerrigan finished first in the country and also won the Best Brief award. All are second-year law students at Campbell.The National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious appellate advocacy competitions. Forty teams from law schools across the U.S. participated in this year’s rounds held in Minneapolis on March 1-3, 2007, including teams from the University of Michigan, Georgetown, Washington University in St. Louis, Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina, the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin, Brigham Young University, and Ohio State University.The competition problem was based on Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, a case currently pending before the United States Supreme Court involving the constitutionality of voluntary race-conscious school assignment plans at primary and secondary public schools.The Campbell students won every argument. They beat teams from Washington University, Georgetown, and the University of Washington in the preliminary rounds. They then defeated teams from Cincinnati, Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Washington University in the single-elimination rounds to win the national championship.”Six out of the seven teams they beat were from top forty law schools,” said Professor Gregory Wallace, one of the team’s faculty coaches. He added that “Campbell students once again have proven that they are among the best in the nation.” Professor Bryan Boyd, the team’s other faculty coach, said “These students set a goal to win from the very first day. For over ten weeks, they never lost sight of this objective. Their teamwork and relentless work ethic are the kind of attributes we expect in all of our Campbell students.”Campbell University School of Law is a highly demanding, purposely small, intensely personal community of faculty and students whose aim, guided by transcendent values, is to develop lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion, and professional competence and who view the practice of law as a calling to serve others and to create a more just society. For more information, please call 1800-334-4111 or log on to its website at http://www.law.campbell.edu
Campbell Law wins national moot court competition