All students enrolled in Appellate Advocacy participate in the David E. Snodgrass Intramural Moot Court Competition, which began with the initiation of the UC Law SF Moot Court Program in 1878. In 1963, the competition was named to honor the memory of David E. Snodgrass, Dean of Hastings from 1940 to 1963 and the founder of the “Sixty-Five Club.” The Snodgrass Competition honors the outstanding appellate brief writers and oral advocates at UC Law SF.
Each year, the Appellate Advocacy professors nominate students for Snodgrass Competition Awards in brief and oral argument categories. The Snodgrass Judging Committee reviews and scores the nominated submissions and determines the winners in each category. Awards for the top ten briefs, top ten oral advocates, and top five overall are presented at the annual Moot Court Awards Ceremony held in April. A student must be nominated for awards in both the brief and oral argument categories to be considered for an overall award. The David E. Snodgrass Award goes to the student with the highest combined brief and oral advocacy score.
The Legal Research and Writing and Moot Court Department congratulates all of our past winners of the Snodgrass Moot Court Competition and shares best wishes for those competing this year!
David E. Snodgrass Intramural Moot Court Competition
Overall Award Recipients
1964 Yale Harlow
1965 Bruce Taylor
1966 Michael J. Roark
1967 Stephen J. Koundakjia
1968 James B. Young
1969 Dennis C. Poulsen
1970 Linda J. Brown
1971 Thomas N. Douglass, Jr.
1972 Douglas J. Gray
1973 David L. Slate
1974 Jane Peterson
1975 Michael P. Bradley
1976 Gary G. Devine
1977 Jeffrey M. Graeber
1978 Kenneth F. Strong
1979 James M. Wagstaffe
1980 Michael E. White
1981 Mark S. Kannett
1982 Susan A. Richman
1983 Barbara J. Orr
1984 David S. Yamaguchi
1985 Cynthia A. Bashant
1986 Henry Cirillo
1986 John Williams
1989 Sang-Jin Nam
1990 James N. Conway
1991 Derek J. Bercher
1992 Robert Timothy Reagan
1993 Christopher Parsons
1994 Dana Linker Steele
1995 Scott A. Sher
1996 Meghan Rhea
1997 William Sloan
1998 Thomas J. Wallace
1999 Saundra McClendon-Riley
2000 Margaret Branick-Abilla
2001 Dara Tabesh
2002 Jack C. Chen
2003 Joshua A. Weiss
2004 Irene Pertsovsky
2005 Anthony Flemmer
2006 Corinne Fratini
2007 Neil Perry
2008 Kyong M. Kim
2009 Molly Friend
2010 Judy Yang
2011 Adam Kaplan
2012 Cassandra Shryock
2013 Joy Siu
2014 Ashish Sudhakaran
2015 Jonathan Goldstein
2016 Jonathan Klaren
2017 Karl Johnston
2018 Hilda Kajbaf
2019 Zahra Alamire
2020 Nathan Guerrero
2021 Justine Chang