DEAN'S WELCOME

Welcome to Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and our Thirty-first Annual Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition.

This Environmental Law Moot remains an outstanding example of the growing national commitment to environmental law among law students. This growth shows increasing interest not only in the evolving fields of environment, energy, and natural resources law, but in the depth and breadth of commitment to environmental law in American legal education.

Haub Law has a proud tradition and reputation in national and international fields of environmental law and policy, driven by the hard work of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It was our students who initiated the concept of this Competition many years ago, and who still today annually provide the leadership vital to its continued success. The Competition is also made possible by the hard work and dedication of the National Environmental Law Moot Court Board and in particular this year by the work of our Chair, Ms. Mariah Bowman; Prof. Todd Ommen, the NELMCC advisor and problem author; Caroline Chen, the Bench Memo author; and by the detailed attention of Ms. Lorraine Rubich, Program Manager. The Competition could not take place without the gracious contributions of our Premier Sponsors, The ABA, Alter Echo, Baker Botts, Riker Danzig LLP, and of course, all our sponsors who continue to support this event each year.

We wish all of you the best of luck and enjoyment during this year’s Competition. I am confident we will continue to work together to design the legal and institutional frameworks needed for an environmentally sound world. We welcome you to our campus; and please let us know if there is anything, we can do to make your visit even more enjoyable.

Horace Anderson Dean

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Welcome From The Moot Court Board Chair

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Thirty-Fifth Annual Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition (NELMCC). On behalf of the NELMCC Board and all of the faculty that made the competition possible, we are grateful to have you join us. For those who have participated before, we are gladdened at your return. For those joining us for the first time, welcome and we hope to have you again. To all competitors, thank you for your time and effort spent on preparations. This competition would not be possible without the efforts of Pace faculty, staff, and students. I am especially grateful for Lorraine Rubich, the Program Manager, Achinthi Vithanage, the Associate Director of Pace's Environmental Law Programs, and Anne Olson, the Program Coordinator. Your dedication and support do not go unnoticed and are indispensable to the continued success of NELMCC. I would also like to thank Professor Todd Ommen, the author of this year's problem, along with Caroline Chen, our 2023 Environmental Law Fellow, who assisted Professor Ommen in these efforts and writing the supplemental documents for the competition.

I would like to say thank you to the NELMCC Board for their constant support and countless hours of hard work: Samantha Blend and Maggie Minas, Co-Vice-Chairs of Judges; Michelle David and Brianna Grimes, Co-Vice-Chairs of Grading and Scoring; Daniel Krupa, Alexis Neunteufel, and Michael O’Hora, Co-Vice-Chairs of Hospitality and Fundraising; Madison Bialkowski and Christen Maccone, Co-Vice Chairs of Rules; and Gabriella Izquierdo and Theresa Persico, Co-Vice-Chairs of Bailiffs. I would also like to recognize the students who served as committee members. I truly appreciate your efforts to be involved in Haub Law’s esteemed environmental law program.

Thank you is also due to the members of Pace Environmental Law Review, Pace Law Review, and Pace International Law Review. Thank you to the editors for facilitating successful grading and to the associates who spent time over their winter break to check brief citations.

A special thank you to the attorneys who have set aside their time and taken on the essential roles of judges and brief graders for the competition. It is a privilege to have such bright legal minds involved in the competition to give competitors feedback to apply to their academic and professional careers. I would like to extend our utmost gratitude to those joining us as final round judges; you make the final round professional and memorable for both competitors and spectators.

I am incredibly grateful to all involved in this competition and I am pleased to welcome you to NELMCC 2023. Best of luck to those competing, and please, remember to enjoy and learn.

Best,

Mariah R. Bowman