Communication 

All official correspondence via mail or e-mail from the NELMCC office to the registered teams will be directed to the person listed as team contact on the registration form. It is the responsibility of the team contact to disseminate the NELMCC correspondence to each member of the team, since we will only correspond with the team contact.


Problem  

The legal Problem drafted each year involves timely issues of national importance to the practice of environmental law.  Recent topics have included illegal dumping of hazardous waste, vicarious criminal liability of corporate officers for their company’s environmental crimes and commerce clause limits on water pollution regulation. 

The Problem and Rules will be distributed by mail and e-mail on or about October 4, 2007 to all schools who have registered and paid in full.  The Problem will later be posted on the Pace Law School web site.  The deadline for questions relevant to the Problem is November 2, 2007 pursuant to Rule II (B).

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Briefs

Each team will write a brief for one of the respective parties’ legal positions. The content, legal analysis and accuracy of the briefs are graded by practicing environmental attorneys. Briefs are also graded for correct Bluebook citation, spelling, punctuation and format. In accordance with Rule IV, the measuring brief and seven other copies of the brief identified only by team number must be mailed or otherwise shipped to the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition office in a single package. The package containing the briefs must bear a postmark or other indicia proving date of mailing no later than December 3, 2007. The package shall be sent using expedited delivery from a shipper or postal service so that it arrives at the NELMCC office no later than three days from the date of the postmark. The team must retain proof of mailing, such as a receipt with the transaction date from the shipper or postal service, and a tracking number assigned by the shipper for delivery verification. A deduction will be applied to late mailings (see Rule IV (C)(1)(d)).

Teams will serve their briefs on the other teams via a posting of the briefs on the Pace Law School website. Each school must e-mail one copy of its brief (NOT the measuring brief) by December 3, 2007, 11:59 p.m. (EST) to the Competition Coordinator (see contact information on last page). Each team should insure that the e-mailed brief contains no identifying information, except the team number. Meeting this deadline will constitute fulfillment of the obligation to serve opposing teams.  A page will be created on the Pace website with links to all the teams' briefs, identified only by the team number. On or about December 11, the NELMCC office will send information to the teams on how to gain access to the briefs.