Editor of Law Review serves as president of moot court

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Nancy Zieah, a liquor store owner/operator turned law school student, appreciates the fact that many students at Cooley Law School are—like her—not traditional law school students right out of undergrad.

Zieah started her academy trajectory with an undergrad degree from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she was on the honor roll for all terms. Fluent in Arabic and Chaldean, she was a delegate in the Model Arab League and was a member of Amnesty International.

“I studied political science because it casts a wide net over societal problems and solutions,” she says. “I particularly liked studying international politics and social justice reform. This is probably what drew me to things like the Jessup International Moot Court competition at Cooley, and the expungement fairs.”

The current president of the Melissa Mitchell Moot Court, Zieah earned the Trinity Term Top Advocate Award in 2021 for the highest score in a single round. Last year she was a member of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court team that ranked amongst top 30 national teams in Advanced Rounds.

Her experience with expungement came from volunteering for Safe and Just, an organization that hosts expungement fairs in the metro-Detroit area.