2008-2009 Student Writing Prize Winners

Addison Brown Prize

Haim Machluf, SJD '10 for Choice of Law-Internal Affairs Doctrine in Contractual Choice-of-Law Perspective

Victor Brudney Prize

Pavlos Masouros, LLM '09 for Private Ordering and Corporate Governance: 

The Case of Venture Capital

Roy Shapira,  LLM '09 for Corporate Philanthropy and the Handicap Principle

Holger Spamann, SJD '09 for Contemporary Legal Transplants: 

Legal Families and the Diffusion of Corporate Law

Davis Polk Legal Profession Prize 

Eric Nguyen, '09 and Douglas Brayley, '09 for Good Business: A Market-Based Argument for Law Firm Diversity

Ming Zhu, '09 for Racing Against the Traditional Credentials: 

An Empirical Study of the Effect of Race in Law School Hiring

Fisher-Sander Prize

Sean McDonnell, '09 for Fighting with Faith: The Role of Religion in Dealing with Modern Conflict

Yong K. Kim Memorial Prize 

Aaron Reid Monroe-Sheridan, '09 for Japanese Corporate Governance 

and the Daiwa Bank Case: A Comparative Examination of the Law and 

Legacy of the Daiwa Bank Scandal in New York

Ryan Park, '10 for The Globalizing Jury Trial: Lessons and Insights from Korea

Laylin Prize

Joseph Fishman, '09 for Locating the International Interest in 

Intra-national Cultural Property Disputes

LGBTQ Writing Prize 

Alvin Lee, '09 for Assessing the Korean Military’s Gay Sex Ban in the International Context

Matthew Murray, JD/MPP '09 for Gay Rights, Religious Liberty, and the First Amendment

Mancini Prize

Ben Gardner, LLM '09 and Jeremias Prassl, LLM '09 for Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles, and the Kingdom: A Look through the Constitutional Prism

Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Administrative Law

Sharon B. Jacobs, '09 for My Dog Ate Your Rulemaking Petition: Judicial Determination of Unreasonable Delay Under the Administrative Procedure Act

Michael Kolber, '09 for Rulemaking Without Rules: An Empirical Study of Direct Final Rulemaking

Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Bankruptcy

Abbye Atkinson, '09 for Two Steps Back:  Why Congress Should Consider How the Treatment of Educational Loans in Bankruptcy Disparately Impacts African- Americans

Philip Tedesco, '09 for In Forma Pauperis in Chapter 7: Access or Illusion?

Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Constitutional Law: 14th Amendment

Sonam Henderson, '09 for The Guarantee Clause, Justiciability, and Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie

Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers and Federalism

Jonathan Bressler, '10 for "The Right of Jury Nullification in Reconstruction-Era Originalism: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Constitutionalization of Judicial Precedent"

Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Environmental Law

Cassandra Barnum, '10 for "Injury in Fact, Then and Now (and Never Again): Summers v. Earth Island Institute and the Need for Change in Environmental Standing Law

Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Intellectual Property

Steven Horowitz, '09 for Copyright Under Uncertainty

Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Law and Social Change

April Kuehnhoff, '09 for Holding on to Home: Preventing Eviction and Termination of Tenant-Bad Subsidies for Limited English Proficiency Tenants Living in Housing Units with HUD Rental Assistance

Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Legal History

Jonathan Bressler, '10 for The Right of Jury Nullification in Reconstruction-Era Originalism: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Constitutionalization of Judicial Precedent

John M. Olin Prize

Holger Spamann, SJD '09 for The Global Cross-Section of Crime and Punishment

Program on International Financial Systems Prize

Yuli Wang, LLM '09, J.D. '12 for Cracks in the Foundation: A Transactional Study of Non-Agency Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities

Sydney Roberts Prize

Brett Myrick, '09 for Fair Ball! Justly Financing the Construction of Professional Sports Stadiums