Ames Moot Court Competition - Winners

Winners

Previous notable winners include:

• Noted Second Circuit judge Henry Friendly (1927)
• California Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner (1927)
• Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (1932)
• Former Delaware governor Pierre S. du Pont, IV (1963)
• Former member of the California State Legislature Sheila Kuehl (1977)
• Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein (1977)
• Former Stanford Law School dean Kathleen Sullivan (1980)
• Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick (1981)
• Congressman Artur Davis (1992 -- Best Oralist, not on winning team)
• Former assistant to the Solicitor General Kannon Shanmugam (1997).

Recent winners:

• 2012 -
  • Best Overall Team & Best Brief - The Gordon Hirabayashi Memorial Team (Yaira S. Dubin, Emma L. Freeman, Benjamin F. Jackson, Michael D. Lieberman, William H. Milliken, Michael J. Springer)
  • Best Oralist - Emma L. Freeman
  • Runner-Up - The William J. Stuntz Memorial Team (Ryan Doerfler, Cormac Early, Conor Mulroe, Josh Segal, Vivek Suri, Allison Trzop)
  • Judges - David Souter (Supreme Court); Reena Raggi (Second Circuit); Mark Wolf (District Court of Massachusetts)

• 2011 -
  • Best Overall Team - The Belva Ann Lockwood Memorial Team (Caroline Anderson, Matthew Greenfield, Stephen Pezzi, Mitchell Reich, Stephanie Simon, Noah Weiss)
  • Best Oralist - Matthew Greenfield
  • Best Brief & Runner-Up - The Hon. John McCarthy Roll Memorial Team (Avis Bohlen, Adam Hallowell, Jessica Palmer, Yvonne Saadi, Matthew Scarola, Benjamin Watson)
  • Judges - Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court), Frank H. Easterbrook (Seventh Circuit), Peter Rubin (Massachusetts Court of Appeals)

• 2010 -
  • Best Overall Team & Best Brief - The Hon. William Wayne Justice Memorial Team (Jason Harrow, Philip Mayor, Jason Murray, Amanda Rice, Zachary Schauf, Yujing Yue)
  • Best Oralist - David Denton
  • Runner-Up - The Griffin Bell Memorial Team (Dustin Cho, David Denton, Taylor Hathaway-Zepeda, Luke McCloud, Lindsay See, Benjamin Snyder)
  • Judges - John Roberts (Supreme Court); Diana Murphy (Eighth Circuit); Julia Smith-Gibbons (Sixth Circuit)

• 2009 -
  • Best Overall Team - The Charles Sumner Memorial Team (Anna Fecker, Candyce Phoenix, Colleen Roh, Hillary Schrenell, Hagan Scotten, Tobias Tobler)
  • Best Oralist - Hagan Scotten
  • Best Brief & Runner-Up - The Clarence Darrow Memorial Team (Paul Bailin, Ryan Buschell, Nicolas Cornell, Kathryn Nielson, Ray Seilie, William Sullivan)
  • Judges - Richard Posner (Seventh Circuit), Diane Wood (Seventh Circuit), Barrington Parker (Second Circuit)

• 2008 -
  • Best Overall Team - The Honorable Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Team (Ishan Bhabha, Jonathan Cooper, Alexandra Davies, Christina Krause, Logan Steiner, David Zimmer)
  • Best Oralist - David Zimmer
  • Judges - Stephen Breyer (Supreme Court), Marsha Berzon (9th Cir.), Frank Hull (11th Cir.)

• 2007
  • Best Overall Team - Oliver Hill Memorial Team (Shannon Delahaye, Joseph Dvorkin, Frederick Fedynyshyn, Adam Hosmer-Henner, Yelena Konanova, David Oliwenstein)
  • Best Oralist - Tejinder Singh
  • Judges - Antonin Scalia (Supreme Court), Carlos F. Lucero (10th Cir.), Debra Ann Livingston (2d Cir.)

• 2006 ,
  • Best Overall Team - Shirin Shakir Memorial Team (Elizabeth Edmonson, Mark Jensen, Tian Tian Mayimin, Samuel Miller, S. Chartey Quarcoo, and Kevin Terrazas.
  • Best Oralist - Tian Tian Mayimin
  • Judges - Anthony Kennedy (Supreme Court), Merrick Garland (DC Circuit), Diana Gribbon Motz (4th Cir.)

• 2005
  • Best Overall Team - William H. Rehnquist Memorial Team (Adam Harber, S. Christopher Szczerban, Ramin Tohidi, Nathan Holcomb, Brian Fletcher, and Joshua Salzman)
  • Judges - David Souter (Supreme Court), Emilio Garza (5th Cir.), Ilana Diamond Rovner (7th Cir.)

• 2004 -
  • Best Overall Team - The Archibald Cox Memorial Team (Ramzi Ajami, Jonathan Benloulou, Michael Bloch, Tom Lue, Sujit Raman, Jamie Simpson)
  • Judges - Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court), Richard A. Paez (9th Cir.), Reena Raggi (2d Cir.)

• 2003 -
  • Best Overall Team - The John Rawls Memorial Team (William Edwards, Aaron Katz, Scott Michelman, Elizabeth Oyer, Chris Pistilli, Geoffrey Wyatt)
  • Judges - Douglas H. Ginsburg (DC Cir.), Fortunado Benavides (5th Cir.), Karen Nelson Moore (6th Cir.)

• 2002 -
  • Best Overall Team - The Gerald Gunther Memorial Team (Norina Edelman, Mark Freeman, Beth Harrison, Greg Lipper, Joshua Solomon, Louis Tompros)
  • Judges - Stephen G. Breyer (Supreme Court), Diarmuid O'Scannlain (9th Cir.), Ann Williams (7th Cir.)

• 1998 -
  • Best Overall Team - The Charles Hamilton Houston Memorial Team (Rachel Clark, Russell Robinson, Kannon Shanmugam, Guhan Subramanian, Amanda Tyler, George Wang)
  • Judges - David Souter (Supreme Court), Bruce Selya (1st Cir.), Phyllis Kravitch (11th Cir.)

• 1989
  • Best Overall Team - A. Bartlett Giamatti Memorial Team (David Blank, Mary Cliff, Michael Dorf, Michael Grossman, Matthew Kreeger, Sylvia Quast)

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