35th Robert F. Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition

On behalf of the New York Law School Moot Court Association and the entire New York Law School community, we cordially invite you to serve as a judge of the 35th Robert F. Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition. The Wagner Competition is the nation’s largest student-run moot court competition and the only national competition dedicated exclusively to the areas of labor and employment law.

This year’s competition authors, Edmond Polatschek and Kyle Kunst, developed an original and challenging fact pattern. The first issue addresses employee privacy rights when dealing with on-line social networking platforms. This issue focuses on the Supreme Court’s holding in City of Ontario v. Quon, which held that the search of a police officer’s text messages sent over a government-issued cell phone to private parties was reasonable, and not a violation of the Fourth Amendment. The second issue focuses on the successorship doctrine of labor law. At issue is whether or not, and to what extent, a successor company will be bound by a collective bargaining agreement entered into by a predecessor company. The fact pattern outlining these issues was released to competitors and judges on January 10, 2011, and is available at www.nyls.edu/wagner.

Specialized knowledge of labor and employment law is not necessary to be a judge in this competition. The fact pattern co-authors are hard at work on a bench memorandum which will provide all the information you need to judge. As the competition nears, judges will receive a copy of this bench brief.

In addition to engaging with students from fifty law schools about emergent legal issues, you may also obtain up to two Continued Learning Education (“CLE”) credits, one for each round you judge. We can only grant a maximum of two CLE credits per person, but welcome your participation in as many rounds as you would like to attend.

We would be honored to have you serve as a judge of the Wagner Competition. Preliminary and advanced oral argument rounds will take place March 17-20, 2011. If you are interested in participating, please register online at www.nyls.edu/wagnerjudges. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns at wagnermoot@nyls.edu or (212) 431-2175.