JOSEPH MATTHEWS, COACH ANDREW RICCIO, BENJAMIN KEIME, AND ABIRAMI ANANTHASINGAM
PROFESSOR CHARLTON COPELAND
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rom Las Vegas to Frankfurt, Miami Law’s moot court teams experienced a record winning streak in competitions all over the world. Students took home the top spot in five prestigious competitions: the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court competition, the second time a Miami Law team won; the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Regional Competition; the Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition; the Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition; and the John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition. Miami Law students also finished in the top 4 percent at the National Appellate Advocacy Championship held in Chicago and advanced to the semifinals of Tulane Law School’s Annual National Baseball Arbitration Competition. As a result of these successes, the Charles C. Papy, Jr. Moot Court Board finished as the ninth best moot court team in the country the past academic year. Miami Law’s team has received an invitation to the prestigious Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship in Houston, which pits the top 16 teams in the nation against one another to crown the moot court national champion. “We are absolutely thrilled with the success we had this year,” said David T. Coulter, president of the Charles C. Papy, Jr. Moot Court Board. “It was certainly one of our best years in recent memory. Without a doubt, our success was the result of the tireless effort of our members, outgoing executive board, advisers, and alumni. ”
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rofessor Charlton Copeland has received a Dukeminier Award and the Michael Cunningham Prize for his article, “Creation Stories: Stanley Hauerwas, Same-sex Marriage, and Narrative in Law and Theology,” published by the Duke University School of Law’s Law and Contemporary Problems at the end of 2012. The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law presents the Dukeminier Awards each year to acknowledge the best law review articles published on sexual orientation and gender identity law issues. The winning articles are reprinted in The Dukeminier Awards Journal which celebrates scholarly excellence in the field of sexual orientation.
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Moot Court Teams Experience Winning Streak
Professor Copeland Receives Dukeminier Award
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