IIT Chicago-Kent Names National Health Law Moot Court Competition Team

Third-year IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law students Emily Anderson and Lindsay Friedman will compete in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition held November 1 and 2 at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Law in Carbondale.

The competition, the only one in the nation devoted to health law, is cosponsored 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 Anderson graduated from the University of Rochester with a major in English. Teammate Lindsay Friedman earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Earlier this year, Anderson and Friedman were members of IIT Chicago-Kent's National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law team.

Founded in 1888, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law is celebrating "125 years of distinctive legal education." IIT Chicago-Kent is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. In 2008 and 2009, IIT Chicago-Kent won the National Moot Court Competition, the largest appellate advocacy tournament in the United States.