Participants must be ABA Premium Members. Law students currently have free basic memberships. The law school pays to upgrade your memberships in order to be eligible to participate in this competition. You will need to list your number on the Travel Form so you can be registered and your premium memberships paid.
2025 Topic: Fourth Amendment
All regionals will be held Thursday through Saturday with a Team Meeting held on Thursday. The ABA will be setting up hotel room blocks in each regional location. That information should come out sometime in January.
Important Dates
Regional Dates:
Location:
Teams Registered (2):
Assigned Sides:
Updated Rules Release:
Problem Release:
Team Information Form Due:
Briefs Due:
Distribution of Prelim Round Pairings:
National Dates:
National Location:
Feb 13-15, 2025
USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania / Philadelphia, PA
Christensen, Hongs, Uremovic / Karp, Layman, Mitchell
CHU Team: Petitioner / KLM Team: Respondent
Upon submission of team names in late November
November (DS to submitted)
January 6, 2025
A few days prior to competition rounds
April 3, 4, 5, 2025
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
CLARIFICATION QUESTIONS ARE DUE BY 11:59 PM ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2025 – Email with NAAC Problem Clarification Questions in subject line to: Erica.Zepeda@americanbar.org
Per the Rules:
Article 9—Competition Procedures for Oral Arguments and Briefs
2. Briefs
If two teams from the same school enter the competition, one team will submit a Petitioner’s brief and one team will submit a Respondent’s brief.
Prior Years Info for Reference Only
2023-2024