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UWLA Moot Court Success in Fall 2020
January 28th, 2021
UWLA Law Students Devin Cutting and Patricia Snyder competed in the annual National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition and maintained UWLA's long tradition of success in legal advocacy competitions.
The National Criminal Procedure Moot Court, hosted by the University of San Diego, featured teams from 30 law schools across the country this year. To my knowledge, all other participating schools are large, traditional ABA institutions. Stated another way, UWLA is likely by far the smallest law school in the tournament, and likely the only Cal Bar (non-ABA) institution.
In the preliminary rounds the UWLA team competed against St. John's University (NY) and the University of Kansas School of Law. St. John's is ranked #30 amongst law schools nationwide and has a 96% bar passage rate over two years on the New York State Bar. The KU School of Law has 500 law students and (founded in 1878) is the largest and oldest law school in Kansas.
The UWLA team performed exceptionally well. Based on their performance against St. John's and Kansas, the UWLA team advanced beyond the preliminary rounds to the "playoffs" rounds of the top 16 teams after the two-day preliminary competition. In the Round of 16, UWLA competed against Marquette University (Wisconsin). Marquette has 400 law students; the median undergraduate GPA of Marquette law students is 3.5 and the median LSAT score of Marquette law students is 154. Marquette is well known throughout the country for its moot court program. For example, during the 2020-2021 academic year, Marquette will participate in 10 national moot court competitions. https://law.marquette.edu/programs-degrees/moot-court-overview .
UWLA (not yet founded in 1878) also has an impressive history of success in moot court competitions. This year marks the third time in the last four years that a UWLA team has advanced to the "playoff" rounds in the national Criminal Procedure Moot Court. And last year the UWLA team won best Respondent's Brief at the competition.
Advancing to the playoff rounds in a large national tournament is an impressive feat whenever it happens, but particularly so during a pandemic, when a very competitive event is staged remotely.
The National Criminal Procedure Moot Court, hosted by the University of San Diego, featured teams from 30 law schools across the country this year. To my knowledge, all other participating schools are large, traditional ABA institutions. Stated another way, UWLA is likely by far the smallest law school in the tournament, and likely the only Cal Bar (non-ABA) institution.
In the preliminary rounds the UWLA team competed against St. John's University (NY) and the University of Kansas School of Law. St. John's is ranked #30 amongst law schools nationwide and has a 96% bar passage rate over two years on the New York State Bar. The KU School of Law has 500 law students and (founded in 1878) is the largest and oldest law school in Kansas.
The UWLA team performed exceptionally well. Based on their performance against St. John's and Kansas, the UWLA team advanced beyond the preliminary rounds to the "playoffs" rounds of the top 16 teams after the two-day preliminary competition. In the Round of 16, UWLA competed against Marquette University (Wisconsin). Marquette has 400 law students; the median undergraduate GPA of Marquette law students is 3.5 and the median LSAT score of Marquette law students is 154. Marquette is well known throughout the country for its moot court program. For example, during the 2020-2021 academic year, Marquette will participate in 10 national moot court competitions. https://law.marquette.edu/
UWLA (not yet founded in 1878) also has an impressive history of success in moot court competitions. This year marks the third time in the last four years that a UWLA team has advanced to the "playoff" rounds in the national Criminal Procedure Moot Court. And last year the UWLA team won best Respondent's Brief at the competition.
Advancing to the playoff rounds in a large national tournament is an impressive feat whenever it happens, but particularly so during a pandemic, when a very competitive event is staged remotely.
Congratulations to Mr. Cutting and Ms. Snyder.