mock trial competition
The Yale College Mock Trial Association will host its seventh annual Invitational Mock Trial Tournament on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8 and 9, at the University.
Since its inception in 1996, the Yale Invitational has become the largest intercollegiate invitational mock trial tournament in the United States. This year, the tournament will host over 500 students who hail from 13 states, including California, Washington State and Arizona.
According to the tournament's director, Craig Bucki '03 of Jonathan Edwards College, the 2002 Yale Invitational will showcase some of the finest mock trial talent from throughout the country. "Individuals from national powerhouse teams such as Boston University, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, the University of Southern California, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania will participate this year," he says.
During the course of the tournament, teams of approximately eight students will compete in four rounds, twice as plaintiffs and twice as defendants, in a hypothetical case in which parents sue a defendant for allegedly hitting their son with his vehicle while driving drunk. Attorneys and judges from throughout Connecticut have volunteered to adjudicate the rounds.
This year, for the first time, the 2002 Yale Invitational is sponsored by the Princeton Review. Founded in 1981, the Princeton Review offers courses, books, computer software and Internet services to students applying for admission to colleges and to graduate and professional schools.
The public is invited to observe the mock trials, which will be held on Friday at 4 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. and on Saturday at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in three locations: William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St.; the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.; and Street Hall, corner of Chapel and Elm streets. For further information, contact Craig Bucki at craig.bucki@yale.edu or (203) 436-0771, or visit the website at www.yale.edu/mocktrial.
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