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2/23/05 Northwestern Moot Court Team Advances to International Competition

Northwestern University School of Law won the North Central regional round of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held Feb. 18 to 20 at Indiana University , Bloomington . Individual members also ranked high in the speaking category and the team took fifth place in the brief award.

The team of second-year JD students Yeora Song, Marc Johnson, Christina Sajous, Susan Rhee, and Kate Karas competed against 12 other schools and bested Ohio Northern University in the final round to win the competition. Additionally, Rhee placed third and Johnson and Song placed fourth in the speaker awards.

The team is coached by Northwestern Law adjunct professor and alum Sunil Harjani (JD '00).

They will next compete as one of 11 U.S. schools among 100 teams from around the world in the International Rounds held in Washington D.C. , March 28 to April 2. Northwestern last sent a team to the international competitions in 1999.

The competition is co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law and the International Law Students Association. A group of international law students founded the event in 1959 to promote international legal education. Participants compete in oral and written pleadings on timely issues of international law and argue their cases as if before the International Court of Justice in the Hague , Netherlands . The competition was officially named in honor of Judge Philip C. Jessup of the International Court of Justice in 1963.

 

	From left to right: Harjani, Rhee, Karas, Song, Johnson, Sajous

 

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