The Fordham Moot Court team captured the regional championship and all the other prizes in the National Moot Court Competition, the country’s premier moot court event, on November 19.
Team members included Amanda Meinhold, who served as captain, Kimberly R. Greer, who won Best Oralist, and Emily Anne Vance, who won Second Best Oralist. The Fordham team received the Best Brief award with a score of 97 out of 100. The team was coached by Andrea Chidyllo, Editor-in-Chief of the Moot Court Board, and Professor Maria L. Marcus.
“The team’s professionalism was striking as they faced difficult, cutting-edge issues,” said Marcus. “At each stage, they continued researching and rethinking their arguments in order to perfect them.”
In a competition that attracts hundreds of teams nationwide, the regional winners advance to the national championship rounds in February. The competition is sponsored by and held at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
The issues involved 1) defining a tipper’s personal benefit and a tippee’s knowledge in insider trading cases and 2) whether exculpatory testimony given in a grand jury proceeding is admissible in a subsequent criminal trial if the witness is unavailable to testify.