School of Law NCAL NAAC Winners of the First NAAC
 



Congratulations to the Winners of the first National Animal Advocacy Competitions

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CLOSING ARGUMENT COMPETITION

First Place
Christopher Green, Harvard Law School

Honorable Mention
Ethan Eddy, Northeastern University School of Law
Juan Garcia, South Texas College of Law
August McCarthy, George Mason University School of Law

MOOT COURT COMPETITION

First Place Team
South Texas College of Law
Melissa Bush, Juan Garcia, Daniel Johnson

Second Place Team
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Nicholas DeSantis, Christos Georgalis, James Martines

Honorable Mention
Lewis & Clark Law School
Michael Berthoff, Stephanie Engelsman

Northeastern University School of Law
Ethan Eddy, Sara Pic

Best Oralist
Daniel Johnson, South Texas College of Law

Best Brief for the United States Department of Agriculture
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Nicholas DeSantis, Christos Georgalis, James Martines

Best Brief for Farm Animal Advocates
Northeastern University School of Law
Anya Lakner, Jon Rankin, Veronica Zolina

Honorable Mention:
Northeastern University School of Law
Ethan Eddy, Sara Pic

Please note: The formatting problems in the briefs are due to the conversion to another program and are not found in the original briefs.

The success of the competitions was due to the time and effort of everyone involved, and especially due to:

Moot Court Problem Author: Jonathan Lovvorn with the assistance of Nancy Perry, Tonya Sanerib, and David Wolfson

Moot Court Brief Graders: Geordie Duckler, Mariann Sullivan, and Sonia Waisman

Closing Argument Trial Record Authors: Geordie Duckler and Sarah Schmidt

Timekeepers/Bailiffs: Mary Lou Diangelis, Katie Dixon, Emily Read, Holly Gibbons, Holly Lewis, Liberty Mulkani, and Steve Wells

Logo Design
Robert Dell


Thank you

To Holly Lewis for coordinating the event.

To Holly Lewis, Katie Dixon, Holly Gibbons and Rebecca Goldfarb-Duggal for their outstanding assistance throughout the entire weekend.

To Jonathan Lovvorn, Nancy Perry, and David Wolfson for everything.

To all of the outstanding judges and jurors.

To all of the truly talented students who participated.

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