2013 Niagara Moot Court Competition Results

The results are in!

Click the image for a full-screen view, and learn more about the 2013 competition here.

2013 Niagara Tournament Kicks Off Next Week

Check out this press release on next week's 2013 Niagara International Moot Court competition.  And you can learn more about the competition at cusli.org.

This year's problem was co-written by Professor Michael P. Scharf and Professor Michael A. Peil, and centers on competing international legal obligations in the counter-terrorism context.

Fifteen teams from Canada and the United States will be competing to see who wins the final round.

UN Security Council Ombudsperson, Kimberly Prost, a former Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court, Ian Binnie, C.C., and the former head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs, Judge Thomas G. Snow will judge the competition's final round.

If you can't make next week's competition in Toronto, stayed tuned to CUSLI Nexus for competition updates.

Niagara International Moot Court: Register Now—and Be Heard by a Supreme Court of Canada Judge, UN Security Council Terrorism Sanctions Committee Ombudsman, and Former Head of the DOJ’s Justice Office of International Affairs

Tomorrow is Election Day in America, and the last day to register for the 2013 Niagara International Moot Court Competition!  The competition will be held in Toronto next February 28th through March 2nd.  

And if the tournament’s timely topic isn’t enough—exploring the thorny obligations under international law when it comes to stamping out terrorism financing in a complicated, globalized world and asylum law—competitors and attendees should check out the competition’s Final Round judges:

• Kimberly Prost, UN Security Council Terrorism Sanctions Committee Ombudsman and former judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia;

• Thomas Snow, US Immigration Law Judge and former head of the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs; and,

• The Honourable Mr. Justice William Ian Corneil Binnie, Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada.

2012 Niagara International Moot Court Results

by Keith Edmund White

As promised, the results of the 2012 Niagara Competition are below. Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you for all the competitors that made this competition so successful. Furthermore, any competitors with photos or other memories of the competition, shoot your experiences to cuslinexus@gmail.com. And as a competitor myself, who was horrible at networking with everyone, feel free to leave a comment to say hi (or any corrections to the list).

Niagara Cup Winner

University of Windsor

Memorial Awards*

Best Applicant Memorial 

University of Western Ontario (6)

Best Respondent Memorial

Creighton University 

Runner-Up Applicant Memorials

Queens Faculty of Law (4) and University of Pittsburgh (5)

Runner-Up Respondent Memorial

American University (17)

Individual Oralist Awards

Best Advocate

Gregory Graham, University of Pittsburgh

Runner-Up Advocates

Paul Allen, Creighton, and Alicia Roberts, Pittsburgh University

Third Place

Stacy Edwards, American University

Fourth Place

Reshma Sambre, Michigan State University

Fifth Place

Evgeny Krasnov, Hofstra University School of Law

Team Oralist Awards

Best Applicant

American University 

Best Respondent

University of Pittsburgh

Henry T. King Award

Michigan State University

Team Standings

Niagara Cup Runner-Up – University of Western Ontario

Semifinalists – Creighton University and Michigan State University

Quarterfinalists – American University, Case Western Reserve University, University of Pittsburgh, University of the Pacific McGeorge

*Team briefs can be found online here. They are labeled by team numbers which is the number in the parentheses. Creighton--I'm still looking for your number, it will be updated shortly. Furthermore, please send requests to take down any names to cuslinexus@gmail.com.