Support Team U of Alberta Law in Twitter Moot on Nov 20, 2012

On November 20, 2012 at 11am MST, students from law schools across Canada, including the U of A Faculty of Law, will argue about whether or not you (and everyone else) have a right to a healthy global atmosphere in the world's second ever Twitter Moot, hosted by West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL), Vancouver. This mock court case will showcase law students advocacy skills using statements of 140 characters or less over Twitter, while allowing an international audience to consider what the law has to say about climate change.

Katherine Thompson - 15 November 2012

Twitter Moot

On November 20, 2012 at 11am MST, students from law schools across Canada, including the U of A Faculty of Law, will argue about whether or not you (and everyone else) have a right to a healthy global atmosphere in the world's second ever Twitter Moot, hosted by West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL), Vancouver. This mock court case will showcase law students advocacy skills using statements of 140 characters or less over Twitter, while allowing an international audience to consider what the law has to say about climate change.

Team U of Alberta: Sam Harrison (1L) and Pippa Feinstein (3L)

The site http://wcel.org/live-twitter-moot-feed will stream the second ever (in the history of the world!!) Twitter Moot, on November 20th, and is currently streaming tweets with hashtag #twtmoot. It is a great site to go to for people who do not have twitter, or just want a simple way to follow the Twitter Moot live on November 20, 2012 at 11am MST. Team U of Alberta is comprised of Sam Harrison (1L) and Pippa Feinstein (3L). Our two UofA Faculty of Law students twitter handles are: @Orangepipsies and @tankersnothanks

Check out the history of the inaugural Twitter Moot #twtmoot on the WCEL website: http://www.wcel.org/.

Here is our WCEL U of A Law Twitter Moot team homepage: http://wcel.org/team-university-alberta

Attachments

Read the U of Alberta Twitter Moot teams Factum (summary of legal argument) of CIER. In addition, Sam and Pippa have submitted graphics (see below), which will be referred to in their tweeted legal argument. Read about the Twitter Moot problem for more information.

Sponsorship

We would like to thank NG Ariss Fong http://www.ngariss.com/ for sponsoring Team U of Alberta!

Sam and Pippa will be representing the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, and the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), in the Twitter Moot on November 20th. Thanks to CIER for preparing instructions on the position to be taken by Sam and Pippa in the Twitter Moot. Thanks too to Professor Cam Jefferies, University of Albert Faculty of Law Assistant Professor and Bowker Fellow (and founder of Fin Free Edmonton, a chapter of United Conservationists), and Stella Varvis, Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, for all their advice for and guidance of the U of Alberta Twitter Moot team during their Twitter Moot preparations.

Support Team U of Alberta

  • If you're on Twitter, click here to tweet your support for Sam and Pippa and the #twtmoot team from the University of Alberta.

  • Post your good wishes for the team from U of A in the comments below.

  • If you're glad to see students from the University of Alberta participated in the Twitter Moot, take a moment to make a donation to support the event so that we can hold these for years to come.