IIT Chicago-Kent wins National Health Law Moot Court Competition's best brief award

Award-winning brief will be published in the "Journal of Legal Medicine"

Emily Herbick and Abrahem Wehbi, third-year students at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, won the best brief award at the National Health Law Moot Court Competition held November 8 and 9 at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Law in Carbondale. Herbick and Wehbi, who advanced to the tournament's semifinal round, will share a $500 scholarship grant from the American College of Legal Medicine Foundation, and their award-winning brief will be published in the Journal of Legal Medicine.

The competition, the only one in the nation devoted to health law, is co-sponsored by the SIU School of Law Center for Health Law and Policy, the SIU School of Medicine's Department of Medical Humanities, the American College of Legal Medicine, and the American College of Legal Medicine Foundation. Teams from IIT Chicago-Kent won the national championship in 1995 and 2008.

Team member Emily Herbick earned a degree in news-editorial journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Teammate Abrahem Wehbi graduated summa cum laude from DePaul University with a degree in psychology.

Founded in 1888, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, also known as Illinois Tech, a private, technology-focused, research university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, architecture, business, design, human sciences, applied technology, and law.

Teams in IIT Chicago-Kent's Ilana Diamond Rovner Program in Appellate Advocacy have won numerous individual student honors and regional and national competitions. In 2008, IIT Chicago-Kent became the first law school to win both the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year. In 2009, IIT Chicago-Kent successfully defended its championship in the National Moot Court Competition.

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