After 36 teams had been eliminated, Emma Freeman ’05 and her teammates on The Gordon Hirabayashi Memorial Team argued in the final round of Harvard Law School’s Ames Moot Court competition.

The final round of the competition, in which Freeman’s team was pitted against the The William J. Stuntz Memorial Team, was presided over by retired Supreme Court Justice The Honorable David Souter, The Honorable Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, and The Honorable Mark Wolf of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

The trio awarded Freeman with the distinction of “best oralist” as well as honoring her team with the award for best brief.  In this year’s competition the teams argued the constitutionality of a statute that would require, “all state and local government entities in Ames to purchase only green technologies manufactured in the United States using domestically sourced materials.”