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School of Law
1045 W. Maple St.
Robert A. Leflar Law Center
Waterman Hall
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Phone: (479) 575-5601

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School of Law Hosts Trial Competition In Fayetteville

Posted on February 15, 2013

The Regional Championship of the 38th Annual National Trial Competition brings together 22 teams from law schools in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Tennessee for three days of mock trials in Fayetteville, hosted by the University of Arkansas School of Law.

Mock trials with local attorneys and other volunteers serving as judges and witnesses are going on in courtrooms all over town this week. Preliminary rounds are Thursday and Friday, with final rounds on Saturday.

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Teams are judged on their performances, and the top two teams will go on to compete in the national competition April 3-6 in San Antonio.

The competition was the focus of an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette story on Friday.

Faculty in the News

Professor D’lorah Hughes will present “Exactly How Big is this Tent?: The Clown Car Conundrum for Interdisciplinary Clinics” at the AALS Conference on Clinical Education from April 28- May 1, 2013.
On April 15, Professor Dustin Buehler traveled to San Francisco to advise 3L students T.W. Brown and Matt Mitchell as they presented oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as part of the law school’s Federal Appellate Litigation Project.
Professor Rob Leflar presented “Discerning How Patients Die: Legal and Political Controversies in Japan, the United States, and Taiwan” at the 3rd East Asian Law & Society Conference at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China on March 23.
On March 19th, Dean Stacy Leeds spoke about the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative during an Agri-Business Marketing Conference hosted by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana.
Professor Sharon Foster‘s article, “LIBOR Manipulation and Antitrust Allegations,” was recently accepted for publication in the DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal.

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Sharon Foster

Professor Sharon Foster joined the School of Law faculty in 2000 and became a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2006. Prior to her arrival, she was an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles from 1998 to 2000. She taught in...

School of Law

1045 W. Maple St.
Robert A. Leflar Law Center
Waterman Hall
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Phone: (479) 575-5601

Law School Directory