American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition

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The American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition focuses on constitutional law issues.  More than 180 teams from 110 law school compete in six regional competitions.  Semifinalist teams at regional competitions advance to the Naitonal competition here in Chicago.

Previous topics include the following: (1) whether felon disenfranchisement laws violates the Fourteenth Amendment; and (3) whether a judge violated the sentencing reform act when requiring a student to pass out flyers on campus regarding his crime.  The competition's website is http://www.abanet.org/lsd/competitions/naac/home.html.

In 2010, the team of Joel Bruckman, Michael Murphy, and Stephanie Potter were Octofinalists and won the Fourth Best Brief award.  In 2009, Matt Kellam, Venus Brown, John Ochoa were Semifinalists at the regional round.

2010-2011 ABA Teams

Coach Professor Joanne Hodge, Bridget Brockman, Jennifer Goedken, and Joshua Scanlon

Patrick Goodwin, Samantha Piekarski, and Joe Menges

Coached by Anthony Sciara