I want to take this opportunity to thank the students at Tulane Law School—in particular Susan Jaffer, Paul Lund, Demelza Baer, and Taryn Brown—for all of their hard work in putting this event together. I also want to thank our “celebrity” guest judges for joining me on the panel to judge the finals of the competition. The guest judges were: Don Fehr, Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association; Gary Roberts, Dean and Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis; and Richard House, General Counsel of the New Orleans Hornets. And, of course, thanks to the students from the 37 different law schools from around the country for competing in this year’s event. All of the judges were impressed with the quality of the teams from the first round through the finals. I hope you enjoyed the competition and were able to find some time to take advantage of all that New Orleans has to offer (well, maybe not all of it) during Mardi Gras.
Finally, congratulations to the winners of this year’s competition. As always, the winning brief will be published in The Sports Lawyers Journal. Here are the results:
The winner of the 2009 Competition was: William & Mary Law School.
Semi-Finalists were: William & Mary Law School, Western State University Law School (second place), University of Virginia and Capital University.
The best brief was submitted by: Florida Coastal School of Law.
The top 5 Oralists were: 1) Sarah Grimm (Ohio State University Moritz School of Law), 2) Arpan Sura (William & Mary), 3) Mathew Spriggs (Ohio State University Moritz School of Law), 4) John J. O'Kane (William & Mary) and 5) Adam Milasincie (University of Virginia School of Law).
Here are the schools that competed in this year’s competition. 1) Florida Coastal School of Law Team 2) University of Detroit Mercy School of Law 3) Indiana University School of Law 4) University of Connecticut School of Law 5) UC Hastings College of Law 6) Florida State College of Law 7) Drexel University Earl Mack School of law 8) University of North Dakota School of Law 9) Charlotte School of Law 10) Western State University College of Law (Second Place) 11) Brooklyn Law School 12) The George Washington School of Law 13) Marquette University Law School 14) Capital University Law School 15) William & Mary Law School (Winner) 16) Temple Law School 17) Cornell University Law School 18) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law 19) Nova Southeastern University Law Center 20) Loyola University New Orleans College of Law 21) West Virginia University College of Law 22) Wayne State University Law School 23) Howard University School of Law 24) University of Maryland School of Law 25) Harvard Law School 26) DePaul University College of Law 27) Wake Forest University School of Law 28) University of Wisconsin School of Law 39) Thomas Jefferson School of Law 30) University of North Carolina School of Law 31) Emory University School of Law 32) Ohio State University Moritz School of Law 33) University of Michigan Law School 34) Villanova School of Law 35) University of Virginia School of Law 36) The John Marshall School of Law 37) The University of Toledo College of Law
Thanks for posting the results of this year's Mardi Gras Invitational Sports Law Competition. I was fortunate to be the faculty advisor for the Loyola New Orleans teams from 1992-2000. I must brag a bit as well because we produced winners in 1997, 1999, and 2000 and a finalist in 1993. In some of those years we went head-to-head with Matt Mitten's teams from South Texas and Marquette.
I really wanted to congratulate you and Tulane on the quality of the final panel this year, and the great judging that was always present during the years that I was involved. The problem was always timely, as was the one this year, and the competition is well organized.
Congratulations again to everyone at Tulane for continuing the fine tradition of hosting a first-rate national moot court competition.
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