This collection brings together papers by students who have won commencement awards for excellence in writing: the David Werner Amram Prize, to the student who has written the best paper in civil procedure or a related area; the Pamela Dailey Prize, to the student who has written the best paper in the field of tax law; the M. H. Goldstein Award, to the student who has written the best paper in the field of labor law; the Fred G. Leebron Memorial Prize, to the student who has written the best paper in the field of constitutional law; the Henry C. Loughlin Prize, to the student who has written the best paper on legal ethics; the Lipman Redman Prize, to the student who prepared the best appellate brief in the Legal Writing course; and the Dolores K. Sloviter Prize, to the student who has prepared the best paper or research project in the field of judicial administration. Prize winners voluntarily submit their papers to this collection.
Submissions from 2023
Babies and Individual Income Tax: How to Boost China's Fertility, Alex Ang Gao
Restoration, Retribution, and Sexual Assault: The Value of Apologies, Kristen M. Marino
A Defense of Principled Positivism, Brandon Walker
Submissions from 2022
Do Police Union Contracts Hinder Accountability: A Quantitative Approach, Jacob Bell
Systematizing Discrimination: AI Vendors & Title VII Enforcement, Colin Clemente Jones
Orchestrating Equity: What Antidiscrimination Law Can Learn from Blind Hiring in American Orchestras, Stephen F. Marino
The Public Square Has Eyes (or Cameras): Anonymous Speech Under the First and Fourth Amendments in the Age of Facial Recognition, Apratim Vidyarthi
Finding Transparency & Equity in Consumer Litigation Funding, Michael A. Wittman
Submissions from 2021
The Bankruptcy-Standing Problem: Plaintiffs as Creditors and the Limits of Article III, Chase Hanson
Has expansion of Medicaid under ACA affected statewide crime rates in the states that have implemented expansion?, Taylor Hertzler
It’s Good for the Planet and It’s Good for Your Portfolio: Encouraging Millennial Participation in 401(k) Plans Through Lowering Barriers To ESG Investing, Rachel Baker Mann
The Availability of Uber on Drunk Driving, Abigail Russo
Submissions from 2020
Catch Rule 22: When Interpleader Actions Violate Statutory and Constitutional Diversity Jurisdiction Requirements, Kristen DeWilde
Habeas Class Actions: Current Opportunities and Challenges in Immigration Law, Ellyn Jameson
The Case Against MDL Rulemaking, Jenifer J. Norwalk
The Recommendations Clause and the President’s Role in Legislation, Benjamin J. Schwartz
Submissions from 2019
Relationship Problems: Pendent Personal Jurisdiction after Bristol-Myers Squibb, Louis J. Capozzi III
A Union by Any Other Name? How Capital Misses the Mark on the Position of Worker Centers within the Current Labor Law Regime, Elizabeth Dailey
A Class of Their Own: Applying Weak Ascertainability to Settlement-Only Classes in the Third Circuit, Danielle Lazarus
Medical Marijuana Laws and Opioid Overdose Deaths in the United States, Gregory Schuster
Submissions from 2018
A Municipal Speech Claim Against Body Camera Video Restrictions, Matthew A. De Stasio
Digital Media and Unionization in the “Guilded" Age: How Labor Organizations in the Entertainment Industry Are Swimming Against the Current of Streaming New Media and Technology, Jacqueline G.H. Kim
Smart Contracts and the Cost of Inflexibility, Jeremy M. Sklaroff
Submissions from 2017
Class Action Notice in the Digital Age, Alexander W. Aiken
State Court Rewriting of Overbroad Statutes, David Schneyer
Submissions from 2016
There and Back Again, a Smuggler’s Tale: Hawala and Money Laundering in the Greater Philadelphia Area, David Marshall Block
A Curious Motion: The Uncertain Role of Anti-SLAPP Statutes in Federal Courts, Markus A. Brazill
Presidential Inaction and the Constitutional Basis for Executive Nonenforcement Discretion, Daniel Stepanicich
Submissions from 2015
Working Models: An Analysis of Workplace Mediation Programs Available to New York City Complainants, Nina Martinez
Choice of Law in Fraudulent Joinder Litigation, Walter Simons