IIT Chicago-Kent students Ashley Brody and Matthew Fitterer to participate in the Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition

Ashley Brody and Matt Fitterer, second-year students at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, will participate in the 27th annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition March 29 to 31 at Brooklyn Law School.

Law school teams from 36 moot court programs throughout the country will compete in the tournament. The competition is named for the late Jerome Prince, a prominent evidence scholar and the author of Prince on Evidence. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Dean Prince joined the Brooklyn Law School faculty in 1934 and served as dean from 1953 to 1971. After his retirement, he remained on faculty, continuing to teach evidence courses until his death in 1988.

IIT Chicago-Kent team member Ashley Brody is a second-year student who earned an undergraduate degree in legal studies with a certificate in environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin. Teammate Matthew Fitterer, also a second-year student, received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Illinois.

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, science, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. IIT Chicago-Kent is the only law school ever to win the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year (2008), and the first school in more than 30 years to win the National Moot Court Competition in two consecutive years (2008 and 2009).