IIT Chicago-Kent to Participate in the International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law October 24 to 26
Lisa DeLeon, Zeke Katz and David McKenzie, third-year students at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, will represent the law school in the International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, which will be held October 24 to 26 at John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Established in 1981, the International 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.
In 2005, the IIT Chicago-Kent team of Cherish Keller '06 and Elaine Wyder-Harshman '06 won the overall competition and a first-place award for their respondent brief.
Current team member Lisa DeLeon graduated from Northwestern University with a major in history. Teammate Zeke Katz majored in philosophy and religion at Colgate University. Teammate David McKenzie earned an undergraduate degree in Chinese studies from DePaul University.
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, 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. 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.
