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Main Page Contact Francisco Duque, 912.961.3173 For Immediate Release
AASU Hosts Southeast Moot Court Tournament Nov. 9-10(Savannah, GA, November 7, 2007) Defending national champions Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) will host the Southeast Undergraduate Moot Court Tournament November 9-10. Debate will start Friday at 1 p.m. and continue Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. All sessions take place on the AASU campus, 11935 Abercorn Street. The event is one of six regional qualifiers leading to the 2008 American Collegiate Moot Court Association championship to be held at Drake University Law School in Des Moines, Iowa on January 18-19. AASU will field two teams comprised of students Jessica Gay and Edric Kirkman and Sarah Loskoski and Kelley Fahy. Last January AASU dethroned top-seeded, two-time consecutive national champions Patrick Henry College, a private school in Virginia, to claim the championship. Seniors Brian Dotson Adam Morrison brought home the championship. They were coached by now retired associate professor of political science John Kearnes, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, assistant professor of speech/communication, and Becky da Cruz, assistant professor of criminal justice. Kearnes established the moot court program at AASU in 2001. Both Dotson and Morrison have since graduated from Armstrong Atlantic. During November 9-10, AASU will host teams from Arkansas State University-Jonesboro, the College of Holy Cross in Wooster, MA, Lyon College in Batesville, AR, Patrick Henry College, University of Louisville, and University of Tampa. In all, 19 teams will debate the 2007 case of the United States v. William DeNolf on the issue of the right to bear arms. The top teams, those scoring in the top 25th percentile, will go on to compete at the national championship in January. The tournament is sponsored by AASU's Department of Criminal Justice, Social & Political Science, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn, P.C. in Savannah. Desnoyers-Colas and Paul Fabian Mullen, assistant professor of Criminal Justice, Social & Political Science, serve as coaches for the AASU teams. Local attorney Joseph Steffen, with Miltiades & Steffen, serves as advisor. For more information, contact Paul Fabian Mullen at 921.5678 or call the Department of Criminal Justice, Social & Political Science at 927-5296. |
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