{"id":409,"date":"2012-11-26T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=409"},"modified":"2012-11-26T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:45:37","slug":"freeman-05-argues-in-harvards-ames-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2012\/11\/26\/freeman-05-argues-in-harvards-ames-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeman &#8217;05 Argues in Harvard&#8217;s Ames Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-411\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2012\/11\/AMES_Emma-Freeman1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-411\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2012\/11\/AMES_Emma-Freeman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Harvard Gazette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After 36 teams had been eliminated, Emma Freeman \u201905 and her teammates on The Gordon Hirabayashi Memorial Team argued in the final round of <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/orgs\/bsa\/final-round\/\">Harvard Law School\u2019s Ames Moot Court<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n<p>The final round of the competition, in which Freeman\u2019s team was pitted against the The William J. Stuntz Memorial Team, was presided over by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2012\/11\/souter-back-on-the-bench\/\">retired Supreme Court Justice The Honorable David Souter<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The trio awarded Freeman with the distinction of \u201cbest oralist\u201d as well as honoring her team with the award for <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/orgs\/bsa\/files\/2011\/10\/Hirabayashi-Team-Brief-for-Respondent.pdf\">best brief<\/a>.\u00a0 In this year\u2019s competition the teams argued the constitutionality of a statute that would require, \u201call state and local government entities in Ames to purchase only green technologies manufactured in the United States using domestically sourced materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-412\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2012\/11\/AMES_Emma-Freeman-Group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-412\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2012\/11\/AMES_Emma-Freeman-Group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Harvard Gazette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 36 teams had been eliminated, Emma Freeman \u201905 and her teammates on The Gordon Hirabayashi Memorial Team argued in the final round of Harvard Law School\u2019s Ames Moot Court competition. The final round of the competition, in which Freeman\u2019s team was pitted against the The William J. Stuntz Memorial Team, was presided over by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2012\/11\/26\/freeman-05-argues-in-harvards-ames-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freeman &#8217;05 Argues in Harvard&#8217;s Ames Competition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}