The Seventeenth Annual National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition (NELMCC) will be held on Thursday, February 24 through Saturday, February 26, 2005 at Pace Law School, White Plains, New York.

Registration	Oral Rounds	Important Dates
Communication	Awards	Refunds
The Problem	Location & Accommodations	Contact Information
Briefs	On the Web

Registration

The registration deadline is October 4, 2004.  Each participating school is required to complete and return a registration form to Pace, accompanied by the team registration fee of $375, payable by check to Pace Law School–NELMCC.  The registration fee covers most meals, including continental breakfasts, lunches and an evening reception.  Teams are responsible for their travel/ hotel expenses and some meals.

Registration is limited to one team per school. Acceptance is based on a "first come, first served" basis.  Registrations received after October 4, 2004 will be accepted at the discretion of the NELMCC Board but will not be accepted after November 1, 2004.  Registration is not complete until the Competition office has received both the registration form and fee.  The Problem will be distributed on the scheduled distribution date only to schools whose registration is complete.  Late or incomplete registrants will receive the Problem when the fee is paid in full.  Please contact your school business/financial office promptly to initiate check processing.

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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 8, 2004 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 12, 2004 pursuant to Rule II (B).

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Briefs

Each team will write a brief for one of the respective parties’ legal positions.  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 at Pace University School of Law.  Packages containing briefs must bear a postmark or other indicia proving date of mailing no later than December 3, 2004.  The team should maintain proof of mailing, either a postal receipt or 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 web site.  Each school must e-mail one copy of its brief (NOT the measuring brief) by December 3, 2004, 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 web site with links to all the teams' briefs, identified only by the team number.  On December 10, the Coordinator will send to each team contact information on how to gain access to the briefs.  The content, legal analysis and accuracy of the briefs are graded by practicing environmental attorneys.