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Every spring, the �ǿմ�ý School of Law hosts the Dean Dunmore Moot Court Competition, an intramural appellate advocacy tournament where second and third year students compete in an NCAA bracket-style competition judged by faculty members, local judges and experienced practitioners.

George Floyd’s shocking death last May under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin triggered profound grief, fervent protests, and intense discussions across our nation and within the (virtual) walls of our law school.

�ǿմ�ý Professor Emeritus Morris G. Shanker, an award-winning educator and legal scholar who passed away last August at the age of 93, designated a $2 million bequest to the School of Law to endow a chaired professorship to be named in his honor.

A team of four �ǿմ�ý law students emerged as regional champions in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPT0)'s 2021 National Patent Application Drafting Competition.

Professor Sharona Hoffman has been interviewed by numerous local, national, and international news outlets in recent weeks about vaccines, vaccines passports, mask mandates and more.

The Yemen Accountability Project (YAP) at �ǿմ�ý School of Law has published its second white paper, “

George S. Kamanda, a third-year law student at �ǿմ�ý, was named the recipient of the 2021 Wong Moss Outstanding Alumni Award by his undergraduate alma mater, Delaware County Community College, and has been asked to deliver the Commencement keynote address for the college’s Class of 2021 virtual ceremony.

The �ǿմ�ý Law School Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court team has just capped off a tremendous year of competitions.

On March 30, 2021, the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, together with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), submitted a letter to United Nations experts concerning attacks by federal and local police on medics during the racial justice and anti-police brutality protests over the summer of 2020 across the United States.

Environmental law expert Jim Chen, a 1991 graduate of �ǿմ�ý School of Law, will be its 2021 graduation ceremony speaker. This year’s commencement will take place in-person from 1-2:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 16, two weeks before the University’s convocation.

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of our Milton A.

Every spring, National Jurist selects a handful of the most impressive law students from the nation’s 200 law schools as “Law Student of the Year Finalists.”  Making the list of seven finalists this year was �ǿմ�ý School of Law 3L Clare Shin.  

Dean Michael Scharf was a lead author of the Public International Law & Policy Group’s Amicus Brief which was cited in the International Criminal Court Ntaganda Appeals Judgment delivered on March 30, 2

On March 30, 2021, U.S. News and World Report issued its Law School rankings for 2022. �ǿմ�ý School of Law improved four places in the overall ranking and eight places in the International Law ranking.

Building upon Co-Dean Michael Scharf’s concept of “Grotian Moments” (paradigm shifts and tipping points in international law), as set out in his two recent books published by Cambridge University Press, the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg convened an international workshop on March 26-27, 2021, entitled “Grotian Moments in International Law.”