NYU Law Team Wins Space Law Moot Court World Championship
A team of NYU Law students, consisting of Elyse Cox '27, Jacqueline Stark LLM '25, and Denis McGrath '27, emerged as victors in the world finals of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court for 2025.
Their win marked a first for NYU Law in the competition and the first Manfred Lachs world championship for a North American team in over a decade.
So step number one was trying to bring the Space Law Society back to NYU, which I did with the help of [Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law] Benedict Kingsbury, who’s our faculty sponsor
The students' journey to becoming international champions began during McGrath's 1L year, when he learned that NYU Law had once had a Space Law Society, which had gone dormant during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The team was formed with the help of Benedict Kingsbury, faculty sponsor.
- The Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court was suggested as a potential focus for the revived Space Law Society.
Author's summary: NYU Law team wins first space law championship.
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