Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court to visit NCCU

Photo: The United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., will be the judge on the bench at NCCU 2009 moot court competition. Last year, preLaw Magazine named North Carolina Central University Law School "the nation's best value among law schools."

DURHAM - The N.C. Central University law students who compete in the finals of next year's moot court competition have a little extra reason to be nervous: The judge on the bench will be John G. Roberts, Jr., chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Roberts will be on campus for a day next April at the behest of Raymond Pierce, dean of NCCU's law school. Pierce met Roberts at a recent judicial conference and gave the hard sell, regurgitating fact after fact about the school, which has been lauded in recent years for affordability and stellar passage rates on the state bar exam.

Pierce asked him to come and speak at the school. "He said he doesn't do speeches but would judge a moot court competition," Pierce said Friday.

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