Omar Ha-Redeye was a judge in the 2011 Niagara International Moot Court Competition, on February 24-26, 2011 in Toronto.

This year’s problem focused on Arctic sovereignty in a dispute between Canada and the U.S.

The competition is hosted by the  Canada-United States Law Institute (CUSLI) and involves participation from the following schools in Canada and America:

American University Washington College of Law
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Cornell University Law School
Georgetown University Law Center
Michigan State University College of Law
Queen’s University Faculty of Law
Seattle University Law School
St. Louis University School of Law
University at Buffalo Law School
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
University of Windsor Faculty of Law
Valparaiso University School of Law
Washington University School of Law
William Mitchell College of Law

Sponsors included DLA Piper, Fasken Martineau, Crowell Moring, Cassels Brock, McMillan, and Torys LLP.

Award for Best Advocate went to David Kocan & Brandon Wheeler, with Second Place going to Jason Urbaniak and Catherine Mariano, Third Place to Kaitlyn Faucett and Matt Vance, and Fourth Place to Kurt Kruckerberg.  Complete results of the competition can be found here.

Niagara Problem 2010

To augment his legal education, Omar Ha-Redeye registered in a bar prep course with CanBarPrep.

Instructors for the course included Professor Stephanie Ben-Ishai of Osgoode Hall Law School, Howard Black of Minden Gross, Craig Carter of Fasken Martineau, Kim Crosbie of the Crown Law Office – Criminal, Professor Trevor Farrow of Osgoode Hall Law School, Lorne Wolfson of Torkin Manes, Professor Benjamin Alarie of University of Toronto, Professor Poonam Puri of Osgoode Hall Law School, Reuben Rosenblatt of Minden Gross, Freya Kristjansen of Cavalluzzo, Hayes, Shilton, McIntyre & Cornish, and Sid Troister of Torkin Manes.

Devin Johnston is continuing with the podcast series at Law is Cool.

His last episode features an interview by Omar Ha-Redeye with Caitlin Rose, a summer student at Fasken Martineau, who helped create the McGill Journal of Law and Health.

Devin continued this episode with interviews from various political representatives on environmental issues. 

A recent report by the Sierra Club of Canada gave political parties the following grades for their environmental plan:

• Bloc Québécois B
• Conservative Party F
• Green Party A-
• Liberal Party B+
• New Democratic Party B