Teams for 15 competitive moots selected
The 2021–2022 upper year competitive mooting tryouts took place between September 14 and 16. 84 people tried out for the 65 available positions in various moots. This year, there were two new moots offered to students: the Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Moot and the Willms & Shier Environmental Moot. The Davies Securities Moot is also returning this year, after being cancelled in the 2020–2021 season.
Candidates were required to argue the 2017 Grand Moot problem, which centred on the constitutionality of section 6(1) of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act. This provision is a criminal prohibition that restricts surrogate mothers’ compensation. Potential mooters represented the fictional appellants, Mr. Lewiston and Mr. Soleil, a gay couple seeking to have a child through compensated surrogacy after their options for uncompensated surrogacy become unavailable. They argued that section 6(1) infringes on the equality rights of same-sex couples and potentially compensated surrogate mothers.
This year, the Moot Court Committee (MCC) ran three initiatives in an effort to reduce some barriers to entry. One was continuing to coordinate alumni practice sessions with mooting alumni from U of T Law on the Sunday before tryouts. The MCC also piloted two new projects this year. First, the “Tryout Buddies” program, where potential mooters were matched with one another so that they could prepare for tryouts together. Second, a feedback program, where judges were asked to note any feedback for mooters. Feedback was then anonymously forwarded to tryout participants who requested it by emailing the MCC.
Below are the finalized tryout results.
Note: Combined degree students are labelled by their year at the law school, e.g. students who were in their non-law year last year are 2Ls.
Adam F. Fanaki Competition Moot
Grace Li (2L)
Peter Tross (2L)
Kyra McAlister (2L)
Monica Layarda (3L)
Bowman Tax Moot
Zoey Chau (2L)
Chuxi Wang (2L)
Zachary Wallace (3L)
Dylan Juschko (3L)
Callaghan Moot
Bill Xu (2L)
Cameron Somerville (2L)
William Hall (2L)
Sterling Mancuso (2L)
Emma Tomas (2L)
Alison Schwenk (2L)
Gordon Lee (2L)
Zach Rosen (2L)
Adam Iggers (2L)
Myles Goodman-Vincent (2L)
Stefan Rus (2L)
Kaitlyn Nelson (2L)
Hussein Fawzy (2L)
Max Levy (2L)
Anisha Sivathas (2L)
Tiasha Bhuiyan (2L)
Davies Securities Moot
Robin Chang (2L)
Rose Ma (2L)
Branden Cave (3L)
Abdullah Khan (3L)
Fox IP Moot
Annie Chan (2L)
Amy Yun (2L)
Christopher Cook (3L)
Megan Chan (2L)
Gale Cup Moot
Laura Goldfarb (2L)
Benjamin Zolf (2L)
Charles Ma (2L)
Jean-Pierre D’Angelo (3L)
Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Moot
Alexa Cheung (3L)
Iris Liu (3L)
Amy Chen (3L)
Sue Yingxue Li (3L)
Julius Alexander Isaac Moot
Meaza Damte (2L)
Anna Hulchanski (3L)
Anna Zhang (3L)
Julia Pimentel (3L)
Jessup Moot
Jonathan Hou (3L)
Michelle Kim (2L)
Seema Sidhu (3L)
Mishail Adeel (2L)
Labour Arbitration Competition
Victoria Purdy (2L)
Jacqueline Huang (2L)
Laskin Moot
Faisal Bhabha (2L)
Maguid Nicholas (2L)
Dhriti Chakravarty (3L)
Evan Linn (3L)
Walsh Family Moot
Thomas Ritthaller (2L)
Joseph Mercado (3L)
Jamie Ahn (3L)
Sarah Shin (3L)
Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot
Lauren Yan Lin Cao (2L)
Jane Fallis Cooper (2L)
Gina Kwon (2L)
Wilson Moot
Ivy Xu (2L)
Haya Sardar (2L)
Elspeth Gibson (3L)
Katarina Kusic (2L)
Winkler Class Actions Moot
Griffin Murphy (2L)
Elgar Gong (3L)
Sean Grouhi (3L)
Karan Sharma (3L)
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article did not include the participants of the Davies Securities Moot. This article has been updated accordingly.
