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Sarah Sharp (3L) (left) and Aiyana McKenzie (3L) (right) take a moment mid-moot at the 2023 MacIntyre Cup trial advocacy moot held in Calgary. Photo by Chantal Boutin.

Faculty of Law

MOOT REPORT: Strong performances by Team Manitoba at MacIntyre Cup

February 15, 2023 — 
The University of Manitoba was proudly and exceptionally represented by Sarah Sharp (3L) and Aiyana McKenzie (3L) in last weekend’s MacIntyre Cup held in Calgary (Feb 9 – 11, 2023).

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Faculty of Law

Faculty of Law proud to host Canadian Division of Jessup International Moot

February 3, 2023 — 
This year marks the 50th anniversary since Canadian law schools first started hosting the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition’s annual Canadian Division Qualifying Tournament in 1973. The University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law has the distinctive honour of hosting this Canadian leg of the world’s largest moot court competition over the weekend of February 23 to 25, 2023 at The Fairmont Winnipeg Hotel.

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UM Law 2022 Davies Moot Competition team of 5 law students standing side by side.

Faculty of Law

Both Sides Know: Competing in Davies Moot an exceptional exercise in dynamic litigation training

April 22, 2022 — 
Beyond tackling an advanced transaction in corporate law that not even lawyers five-years out encounter, law students competing in the Davies Corporate/Securities Moot need to come prepared to argue both sides of the problem. As a testament to the dynamic brilliance and professionalism of this year’s team from Robson Hall, Brandon Gray (2L), who tied for second-place Top Oralist, immediately expressed appreciation for his teammates and coaches for their contributions and assistance during the competition.

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Robson Hall’s 2022 Kawaskimhon moot team: Katie Rothwell (3L) and Keira Hasenack (2L), beaming hugely behind their masks while attending the consensus-based, non-adversarial Indigenous moot in Montreal.

Faculty of Law

Achieving reconciliation: Kawaskimhon Moot trains law students to advocate for Indigenous rights

April 8, 2022 — 
The Kawaskimhon Moot (Kawaskimhon being a word of Cree origin that translates as “speaking with knowledge”) incorporates Indigenous legal traditions with federal, provincial and international law. With no winners or losers, mooters take part in roundtable negotiations on a particular topic, representing their assigned party. Team Manitoba was very pleased with their negotiation outcome. “After over 12 hours at the negotiation table, my teammate Katie and I were able to come to a memorandum of agreement with the other parties in the spirit of reconciliation,” said Hasenack. “This experience also allowed us to connect with like-minded law students from across Canada, who share a passion for Indigenous rights.”

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Robson Hall moot courtroom art by Dakota/Ojibway artist Linus Woods.

Faculty of Law

Kawaskimhon Moot 2021 raised much-needed conversations

May 15, 2021 — 
Looking back on invaluable student experience in view of changing paradigms

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Robson Hall exterior Fall 2019

Faculty of Law

Training family lawyers for today’s family needs

February 27, 2020 — 
The Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba is pleased to host law students and coaches from the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of Saskatchewan for the Western Canada Family Law Negotiation Competition, March 6-7, 2020.

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