Lizzy Coltrane, Jocelyne Riehl and Megan Boorsma were quarterfinalists at the Fifteenth Annual Leroy R. Hassell, Sr. National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition at Regent University School of Law on October 16-17. The team also won awards for Best Petitioner’s Brief and Best Overall Brief in the competition.
Coltrane and Riehl performed exceptionally well in four preliminary rounds of oral argument, going 4-0 in those rounds against teams including Touro and Florida Coastal. Boorsma wrote the team’s award-winning brief.
Elon Law has enjoyed consistent success at the Regent competition, with past teams reaching the finals, semifinals and quarterfinals, and winning best brief awards in 2009 and 2011. Founded in 2008, the Moot Court Board fields teams which regularly finish in the top eight or higher at national competitions and have won six best brief awards.
Later this fall, Elon Law will field teams in the National Moot Court Competition in Richmond, Virginia, and at the Mercer University School of Law’s Legal Ethics and Professionalism Moot Court Competition. In the spring, teams will compete at the William B. Spong Moot Court Tournament at William & Mary Law School, the J. Braxton Craven, Jr. Memorial Competition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the National First Amendment Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C., and the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition in Washington, D.C. Elon will also host the Sixth Annual Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition from March 31-April 2, 2016.
The Regent team was coached by adjunct professor and Elon Law moot court alumnae, Melanie Crenshaw. Elon Law’s Moot Court Program is directed by Senior Associate Dean Alan Woodlief.
More information about the accomplishments of Elon Law’s student moot court board is available here.