The Environmental Law Program sent two teams to the West Virginia Energy Moot Court Competition

The Environmental Law Program sent two teams to the West Virginia Energy Moot Court Competition March 2-4, 2023, from left to right: Jared Cooper, Robert Velazquez, Halina Bereday, Julianna Smith, and Samantha Fairbanks.

This was the first in-person moot court competition the Environmental Law Program has done since pre-Covid times. Both teams represented UMD Carey Law well, with one team advancing out of the preliminaries but losing to Yale in a close match. Special thanks to Judge Douglas Nazarian who did a moot with our teams and provided a mini lecture on energy markets, including Hughes v. Talen Energy, a Supreme Court case that arose out of Judge Nazarian's energy work at the Maryland Public Service Commission prior to his judicial appointment.