IIT Chicago-Kent to participate in the 30th annual Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law October 27-29

Katie Cisneros and Kate Goyert, third-year students at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, will represent the law school in the Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, which will be held October 27 to 29 at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

Established in 1981, the Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law has become one of the largest and most highly respected of all international moot court tournaments. Students from law schools throughout the country and from outside the United States gather at John Marshall each year to brief and argue challenging and unresolved issues of technology law. Prominent state supreme court justices, federal district and appellate judges, and distinguished law professors and practitioners score and critique each round of the competition. The winning briefs are published in the Journal of Computer & Information Law.

Team member Katie Cisneros graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Cisneros also earned a master's degree in education from the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Teammate Kate Goyert received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Loyola University-Chicago.

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. In 2008 and 2009, Chicago-Kent won the National Moot Court Competition, the largest appellate advocacy tournament in the United States. In 2008, Chicago-Kent became the first law school to win both the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year.