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.

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Submissions from 2024

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Five Essays on Current Topics in Tax, Noah Beatty

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Amazon's Yellow Dog Contract: The Malbaff rule, the fissured workplace, and the Labor Board’s benign neglect of powerful client companies, Dermot Delude-Dix

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College Athlete Unionization: A Winning Play or a Losing Game?, Emily Gabos

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Unions, Black Worker, and Criminal Records: Reckoning with the Labor Movement's History of Racial Discrimination Should Lead It into the Future, Ty Parks

Submissions from 2023

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Babies and Individual Income Tax: How to Boost China's Fertility, Alex Ang Gao

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Restoration, Retribution, and Sexual Assault: The Value of Apologies, Kristen M. Marino

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A Defense of Principled Positivism, Brandon Walker

Submissions from 2022

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Do Police Union Contracts Hinder Accountability: A Quantitative Approach, Jacob Bell

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Systematizing Discrimination: AI Vendors & Title VII Enforcement, Colin Clemente Jones

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Orchestrating Equity: What Antidiscrimination Law Can Learn from Blind Hiring in American Orchestras, Stephen F. Marino

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The Public Square Has Eyes (or Cameras): Anonymous Speech Under the First and Fourth Amendments in the Age of Facial Recognition, Apratim Vidyarthi

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Finding Transparency & Equity in Consumer Litigation Funding, Michael A. Wittman

Submissions from 2021

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The Bankruptcy-Standing Problem: Plaintiffs as Creditors and the Limits of Article III, Chase Hanson

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Has expansion of Medicaid under ACA affected statewide crime rates in the states that have implemented expansion?, Taylor Hertzler

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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

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The Availability of Uber on Drunk Driving, Abigail Russo

Submissions from 2020

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Catch Rule 22: When Interpleader Actions Violate Statutory and Constitutional Diversity Jurisdiction Requirements, Kristen DeWilde

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Habeas Class Actions: Current Opportunities and Challenges in Immigration Law, Ellyn Jameson

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The Case Against MDL Rulemaking, Jenifer J. Norwalk

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The Recommendations Clause and the President’s Role in Legislation, Benjamin J. Schwartz

Submissions from 2019

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Relationship Problems: Pendent Personal Jurisdiction after Bristol-Myers Squibb, Louis J. Capozzi III

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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

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A Class of Their Own: Applying Weak Ascertainability to Settlement-Only Classes in the Third Circuit, Danielle Lazarus

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Medical Marijuana Laws and Opioid Overdose Deaths in the United States, Gregory Schuster

Submissions from 2018

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A Municipal Speech Claim Against Body Camera Video Restrictions, Matthew A. De Stasio

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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

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Smart Contracts and the Cost of Inflexibility, Jeremy M. Sklaroff

Submissions from 2017

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Class Action Notice in the Digital Age, Alexander W. Aiken

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A Proposal to Study the Effect of Optimism, Overconfidence, and the Planning Fallacy on Lawyers’ Ability to Secure Favorable Results for Clients, Chelsea Berry

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State Court Rewriting of Overbroad Statutes, David Schneyer

Submissions from 2016

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There and Back Again, a Smuggler’s Tale: Hawala and Money Laundering in the Greater Philadelphia Area, David Marshall Block

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A Curious Motion: The Uncertain Role of Anti-SLAPP Statutes in Federal Courts, Markus A. Brazill

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Presidential Inaction and the Constitutional Basis for Executive Nonenforcement Discretion, Daniel Stepanicich

Submissions from 2015

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Working Models: An Analysis of Workplace Mediation Programs Available to New York City Complainants, Nina Martinez

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Choice of Law in Fraudulent Joinder Litigation, Walter Simons