Common Law Jessup Team Wins Baxter Award
The Common Law Section’s 2008 Jessup team has won this year’s Baxter Award for the world’s best Respondent Memorial.The Richard Baxter Award is presented to teams for excellence in Memorial writing by comparing individual Applicant and Respondent Memorials. The Applicant and Respondent Memorials of teams that receive an Alona E. Evans Award or a Hardy C. Dillard Award are entered into the Richard Baxter Award Competition.
Click here to read a copy of the Common Law Section’s award winning Respondent Memorial.
Safina Lakhani, Brendan Green, Benjamin Piper, Michael Marin and David Quayat finished fourth at the 2008 Hardy C. Dillard Competition, making them the only North American team that placed in the top ten. The Dillard Competition brought together the best Memorials from the national and regional rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition.
For the last two years in a row, the Common Law Section’s Jessup team has placed first at the White and Case Canadian National Division Qualifying Tournament. The team won 7th place at the Shearman & Sterling International Round for their memorials this year, and both David Quayat and Brendan Green finished in the top group of oralists. In 2007, the Common Law team ranked as quarterfinalists at the international round.
Congratulations to the team and their coach, Anthony Daimsis.