National Center for Adoption Law, Policy To Co-Host National Moot Court Competition Feb. 16-17
Law students from across the country will demonstrate their advocacy skills as they present legal arguments at the National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law Friday, Feb. 16, and Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Ohio Statehouse and the Ohio Supreme Court.
Capital University Law School’s National Center for Adoption Law and Policy, along with its Moot Court Board, are partnering with four prominent child advocacy organizations to host the second annual competition. Twenty-three teams from throughout the country will argue before a final round of judges composed of leaders from:
• The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges;
• The American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law;
• The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys; and
• The National Association of Counsel for Children.
Students from nearly 20 law schools nationwide will argue cases on the rights of fathers who have not legally established paternity (putative father’s rights); the right to appointed counsel in civil cases; and conflicts of law in putative father registries. Attorneys, judges, magistrates and law professors from across the country have volunteered to judge the oral arguments and briefs filed by the teams.
The following law schools are participating:
• Capital University Law School
• Loyola University Chicago School of Law (defending national champions)
• Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law
• Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Huntington, N.Y.
• St. John’s University School of Law in Jamaica, N.Y.
• University of Dayton School of Law
• University of Michigan Law School
• University of Missouri Kansas City
• Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va.
• New England School of Law in Boston
• Seton Hall School of Law in Newark, N.J.
• University of Colorado Law School
• University of Mississippi School of Law
• University of Pennsylvania Law School
• University of San Diego Law School
• University of South Carolina Law School
• University of Tennessee College of Law
All preliminary rounds will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, at the Ohio Statehouse. The quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, at The Supreme Court of Ohio, located at 65 S. Front St., in Columbus.