Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Serve as Chief Judge at Stone Moot Court Competition Final

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Serve as Chief Judge at Stone Moot Court Competition Final

 

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New York, March 31, 2011—U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor will serve as a judge of the final round of the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition, to be held April 7 at Columbia Law School.
 
Sotomayor has been a lecturer-in-law at the Law School, and in 2000 created and co-taught a course called “The Federal Appellate Externship.” She will be joined by two judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Denny Chin and
Debra Livingston, who is also the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at the Law School.
 
The Stone Moot Court is a three-round elimination competition of appellate advocacy. This year, 90 students entered the first round held during the fall term. More than 125 alumni, many of whom participated in the competition as students, returned to the Law School to judge the preliminary rounds of the competition. On the strength of their brief and oral argument scores, 24 competitors advanced to the spring semifinal rounds. The four students with the highest scores will present their final arguments on April 7.
 
The finalists are: Anjali Bhat ’11, Prashanth Chennakesavan ’11, Matthew F. Kuhn ’11, and Paul E. Smith ’12. They will argue a case written by Evie Spanos ’11, who is competition director and last year was a finalist.
 
The Stone Moot Court has been held at the Law School since 1925. It is named after Harlan Fiske Stone, Class of 1898, a former Columbia Law School dean who went on to serve as U.S. Attorney General and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
 
The final will be in rooms 104 and 106 of Jerome Greene Hall, 435 West 116th St., from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
 
Columbia Law School’s Moot Court Program is made possible by the generous support of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.  
                                   
 
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