U of T Law has selected the students for upper-year competitive moots
U of T Law’s competitive mooters for the 2023–2024 school year have been selected following this year’s in-person tryouts. First and second-round tryouts took place on September 12-13 and September 14 respectively, with calls being made to the successful candidates on September 15.
As is the case each year, tryouts were coordinated by the Moot Court Committee (MCC), a student-run committee charged with choosing candidates that fall within the parameters set by the Faculty of Law and with finding student coaches for each team.
Candidates were tasked with mooting the 2014 Wilson Cup problem, British Columbia and Don Sterling v. Keith Baxter and Jasmine Liu. The issue centred around an application for adoption made by Keith Baxter and Jasmine Liu for Xavier Jackson, a four-year-old child who had spent most of his life with the couple.
The application sought waiver of the consent of Don Sterling, a member of the South River First Nation: under s.17(5) of the British Columbia Adoption Act, “the consent of an aboriginal child’s biological parent” cannot be waived unless the child is at risk of serious harm or adoptive placement with the parent’s extended family is not possible.
Baxter and Liu challenged s.17(5) as a violation of their s.15 right to equality and their s.7 right to security of the person per the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Mooters were challenged with arguing that any purported violation of s.15 or s.7 could not be saved under s.1.
Below are the finalized results of this year’s tryout.
Adam F. Fanaki Competition Law Moot
- Jonathan Herlin (3L)
- Donya Ashnaei (3L/MBA)
- Emily Chu (2L)
- Olivia Schenk (2L)
Callaghan Memorial Moot
- Jason Ruggeberg (2L)
- Zachary Train (2L)
- Daniel Kiesman (2L)
- Abby Craswell (2L)
- Alison Borch (2L)
- Hannah Rosenberg (2L)
- Janna Getty (2L)
- Emily Jin (2L)
- Angela Shi (2L)
- Emma Davies (2L)
- Maddy Schneider (2L)
- Madison Regan (2L)
- Jules Lyon (2L)
- Christine Wang (2L)
- Yiwei Bian (2L)
- Maheen Akter (2L)
Davies Corporate/Securities Law Moot
- Lauren Di Felice (3L)
- Brody Zukerman-Schure (3L/MBA)
- Alexander McGuigan (2L)
- Riya Thomas (2L)
Donald G. Bowman National Tax Moot
- Nina Varghese (2L)
- Taylor Rodrigues (3L)
- Yinzi Gao (4L)
- Jeffrey Liu (3L)
Gale Cup Moot
- Nina Patti (3L)
- Brynne Dalmao (2L)
- Julia Campbell (3L)
- Elizabeth Hicks (2L)
Harold G. Fox Canadian Intellectual Property Moot
- Alessia Woolfe (2L)
- Mina Alam (2L)
- Avital Sternin (2L)
- Rebecca Tyli (2L)
Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Law Moot
- Emma Seip (3L)
- Isaiah Hasham (2L)
- Justin Lyon (2L)
- Abby Sasitharan (2L)
Jessup International Moot
- Vidit Desai (2L)
- Eyal Wilk (2L)
- Arik Portnov (2L)
- Foti Vito (3L)
Julius Alexander Isaac Moot
- Mahnoor Noor (2L)
- Grace Chan (2L)
- Sherry Li (2L)
- Samir Reynolds (3L/MPP)
Laskin Moot
- Alex Horbal (2L)
- Marisa Benjamin (3L)
- Michel Hajjar (3L)
- Chelsea Gordon (2L)
National Labour Arbitration Competition of Canada
- Benjamin McLean (3L/MBA)
- Nathan McLean (3L/MBA)
Tort Law Moot
- Tiger Zheng (2L)
- Alex Nyikos (2L)
- Jonathan Kleiman (2L)
- Roman Chorneyko (2L)
Walsh Family Law Moot
- Julia Fine (2L)
- Laura Hunter (3L)
- Aviva Ripstein (3L)
- Constantine Kanagelidis (2L)
Wilson Moot
- Joshua Schwartz (2L)
- Jarren Feffer (2L)
- Carson Cook (2L)
- Liza Markova (2L)
Winkler Class Actions Moot
- Ian Thomson (3L)
- Kareem Elmankabady (3L)
- Noam Epstein Roth (2L)
- Bjorn Wagenpfeil (2L)
