Thirty-six teams of law students from all parts of the country will converge in Madison from Friday, March 28 through Sunday, March 30, 2008, when the UW Law School’s Moot Court Board will host the 14th annual Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition.
This year’s competition will focus on issues of constitutional law involving liberty interests and the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech as applied to wearing a particular style of clothing.
Members of the Law School Community and the Madison Community are invited to attend the Semi-final and Final Rounds in the State Capitol on Sunday, March 30. Semi-finals will be in the State Assembly Parlor Room and Supreme Court Hearing Room from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; final rounds will be in the Supreme Court Hearing Room from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Faculty and local practitioners are invited to judge rounds on Friday and Saturday; up to four free Continuing Legal Education Credits have been approved for serving as a judge. Anyone who is interested in judging, or would like more information, may contact Haben Goitom 3L, Evans Director, at hgoitom@wisc.edu. Spaces are filling up quickly, Goitom says. Student volunteers will be serving as bailiffs.
This competition is a three-day event open to all ABA-accredited law schools. It is named in honor of Evan A. Evans, a distinguished Wisconsin graduate of the Class of 1899 and Senior Circuit Judge of the Seventh Circuit from 1916 to 1948.
Submitted by on March 19, 2008
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