The Moot Court
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Snow Schedule:
· NO quarters
· starting 30 min early
· shortened break
· all rounds 1:15 min
Friday, February 5, 2010
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Preliminary Round Judge’s Check-in and information session; Lunch provided (Student Conference Center, 2nd floor)
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm – Preliminary Round 1 (Argument On-Brief)
Oral Arguments and Judges' Comments to Competitors
2:45 pm – 3:15 pm – Break
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm – Preliminary Round 2 (Argument Off-Brief)
Oral Arguments and Judges' Comments to Competitors
4:30 pm -- 5:00 pm – Break
5:00 pm - 6:15 pm - Semifinal Round
6:15 pm – 6:45 pm – Break; dinner provided for competitors and judges
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm - Final Round
The Religious Freedom Moot Court is pleased to announce the judges of the final round bench:
- Judge Milan Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
- Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
- Melissa Rogers, Director of Wake Forest School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs and Appointee to President Obama's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Recognizing “religion’s special role in our society,”1 The George Washington University Law School is proud to have inaugurated the National GW Religious Freedom Moot Court Competition. Religious freedom, embodied in the twin Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment, is one of the fundamental guarantees of the United States Constitution and is a founding principle of our nation. The Moot Court competition will focus on a current religious freedom issue that implicates a First Amendment controversy.
Last year's winning brief was published by the Rutgers School of Law Journal of Law and Religion. It has been made available here.