Introducing the 2025–26 competitive moot teams
After a busy tryout season, U of T Law’s 2025–26 competitive mooters have been selected. As with past years, the student-run Moot Court Committee (MCC) coordinated the tryout process. First-round tryouts took place from September 9–10, featuring a panel of student judges with at least one MCC member. Second-round tryouts took place on Thursday, September 11. The second-round panel was composed of one faculty member, one MCC member, and one other student judge. Calls were made to successful candidates beginning at 6pm on Sunday, September 14.
This year, the tryout problem came from the 2019 Wilson Moot problem Irina Kowalski v Saskatchewan (Attorney General). The problem concerned the constitutionality of the Saskatchewan provincial government’s Fertility Program, which requires that an individual be under the age of 40 to be eligible for government funding for in vitro fertilization (IVF). The claimant, Ms. Irina Kowalski, was 41 years old at the time the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench heard the appeal. Kowalski sought declarations that her ineligibility for government funding for IVF treatment violated her ss. 15 and 7 Charter rights and that these infringements are not justified under s. 1 of the Charter.
Prospective mooters were asked to represent Ms. Kowalski as the appellant on appeal. They were tasked with arguing that the Fertility Program’s violation of ss. 15 and 7 of the Charter were not saved by s. 1 of the Charter.
The MCC would like to thank all the volunteer student and faculty judges who made the tryouts possible this year!
Below are the final results of this year’s tryout:
Note: Mooters in their third year of combined four-year programs are noted as 2Ls (and fourth years are noted as 3Ls).
Mooters in the Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Competitive Program were not selected by the MCC this year. The Willms & Shier Environmental Moot was not filled this year due to issues with prerequisites.
Adam F. Fanaki Competition Law Competitive Program
Evan Chow (3L)
Jamie Blunt (2L)
Oscar Judelson-Kelly (2L)
Tyler Lee (2L)
Callaghan Competitive Program
Aliyah Mancini (2L)
Amanda Yu (2L)
Cassandra Heward (2L)
Dima Kiwan (2L)
Erica Walter (2L)
Hanaya Akbari (2L)
Jamie Dibble (2L)
Jordan Guberman (2L)
Katie Power (2L)
Neil Ryan (2L)
Paul Huang (2L)
Rayyan Esmail (2L)
Simren Sharma (2L)
Srivani Edupuganti (2L)
Tourang Movahedi (2L)
Zane Shammas-Toma (2L)
Canadian Labour Arbitration Competition
Ethan Sabourin (2L)
Ivy Chen (2L)
Davies Corporate Securities Competitive Program
Belaal Hamid (2L)
Jordan Rosenfeld (2L)
William Mitchell (2L)
Yebin Shin (2L)
Donald G. Bowman Tax Competitive Program
Daniel Austin-Boyd (2L)
George Macauley (3L)
Ke Xu (2L)
Talha Mahmood (2L)
Gale Competitive Program
Aditya Juvekar (2L)
Evan Tanovich (2L)
Sakina Hasnain (3L)
Sarah Mackenzie (3L)
Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Competitive Program
Alexia Lee (2L)
Annie Chang (3L)
Caleb Lakhani (2L)
Sam Zhang (2L)
Jessup Competitive Program
Hasti Jamalomidi (2L)
Justin Wang (2L)
Samraggi Hazra (2L)
Yuha Khan (2L)
Julius Alexander Isaac Competitive Program
Bridget Le Donne (2L)
Bruce Yao (2L)
Jacob Meloche (3L)
Paula MacPherson (2L)
Laskin Competitive Program
Amit Nehru (3L)
Josephine Winsor (3L)
Marwan Yousif (2L)
Romina Hajizadeh (2L)
Tort Law Competition Program
Erika Mackenzie (2L)
Harleen Grewal (2L)
Myles Whelen (2L)
Sofia Sucevic (2L)
Walsh Family Law Competitive Program
Annabelle Lim (2L)
Chelsea Musanhu (3L)
Georgia Gardner (3L)
Madura Muraleetharan (2L)
Warren K. Winkler Class Actions
Allie Fong (3L)
Harjaap Brar (3L)
Iryn McMechan (2L)
Rebecca Dragusin (2L)
Wilson Competitive Program
Alicia Parker (2L)
Alysha Mohamed (2L)
Katie Martin (2L)
Tenzin Shomar (2L)