Past Senior Research Projects
2022-23 Senior Research Projects
| SUPERVISING FACULTY |
STUDENT | PROJECT TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| Arimond, Bridget | Eiland, Austin | LGBTQI+ Rights in International Law: An Examination of the Impact of the Yogyakarta Principles |
| Barsa, Michael | Choi, Michael | Talking about Climate Change: The SEC's Climate Disclosure Rule and the Compelled Commercial Speech Doctrine |
| Barsa, Michael | Kittelberger, Jessica | Beyond Price Controls: The Extraterritoriality Principle’s Possible Transformative Impact on Animal Welfare |
| Biehl, Julie | Hughes, Erin | Community Defense Clinics as a More Effective Model of Public Defense |
| Calabresi, Steven | Cordonnier, Bailey | In Defense of Originalism |
| DiCola, Peter | Beirne, Michael | Loss of Laches: SCOTUS Supports Strategic Suits |
| DiCola, Peter | DeVlieger, Dana | The Inconsistent Application of the Extrinsic Test in Music Copyright Cases |
| Glogower, Ari | Sethi, Jas | Private Placement Insurance has Left the "Insurance" Behind - Reconciling the Favorable Tax Treatment of PPI with its Higher Risk and Returns |
| Gowder, Paul | Cleary, Elaine | Ghost Guns: 3D Printed Firearms and the First Amendment |
| Kitrosser, Heidi | Gilligan, Brendan | Without Borders or Boundaries: Executive Order 12,333 Signals Intelligence and the Constitutional Requirement of Judicial Review |
| Kleinfeld, Joshua | Bayer, Dominic | The Plain Meaning Rule and Textualism |
| Kugler, Matthew | Lee, Allison | (Title Pending) |
| Kugler, Matthew | Preminger, Alice | Right of Publicity and Deepfakes |
| Lindgren, James | Zylberberg, Daniel | Maintaining Kovel Privilege in a Corporate Transactional Setting |
| Linna Jr., Daniel | Wu, Elise | Between Promises and Pitfalls: Addressing the Potential Impact of Adopting Artificial Intelligence in the United Nation’s Agenda in Health and Human Rights |
| Llorente, Monica | Lang-Reyes, Andrew | First Generation Law Students: Tribulations & Triumphs |
| McGinnis, John | Stehle, Jared | Privatizing Antitrust: Neo-Brandeisians' Democracy Problem |
| McGinnis, John | Stippich, Grace | A Backwards-Looking Framework for Antitrust Law |
| Morgan, Jamelia | Boraz, Katharine | Justice for All: Remedies for Disability Discrimination in a Post-Cummings World |
| Pfander, James | O'Brien, Jacqueline | The Surprisingly Functional World of Territorial Jurisdiction |
| Pfander, James | Wagner, Nicholas | Quashing |
| Redish, Martin | Epstein, David | The Unitary Executive in the Age of Authoritarianism |
| Redish, Martin | Lane, Jackson | The Declaratory Judgment Act and Federal Jurisdiction |
| Reed, Stephen | Jameel, Sarah | The Future of Sustainable Fashion Law, Policy, & Business Practices |
| Sorensen, Juliet | Choi, Jeehoon | Lobbying and Bribery |
| Wang, Xiao | Bellis, Michael | Structural Direct Democracy |
| Weinstock, Robert | Nchako, Taylor | Integrating Indigenous Water Rights into International Conservation Law |
| Zimmerman, Clifford | Desgrosseilliers, Taylor | Megadrought and Prior Appropriation: Modern Legal Approaches to Distributing Water in the West |
| Zimmerman, Clifford | Hale, Lucas | (Title Pending) |
2021-22 Senior Research Projects
| Supervising Faculty |
Student | Project Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Pfander, James | Alley, Rex | The Historical Development of the Federal Tort Claims Act |
| Zimmerman, Clifford | Atseff, Emily | Senior Research Honors: Understanding Race & Caste in America to Reimagine Title VII |
| Carrel, Alyson | Busch, Anna | Negotiation Technology: Impact and Opportunity |
| Walker Sterling, Robin | Cange, Gloria | The Descramble for Africa: A Comparison of the Legal Ramifications after the Colonization and Decolonization of the African Continent |
| Delaney, Erin | Carbery, Benjamin | The Challenge of “New Style” Judicial Elections to Theories of Democratic Criminal Justice Reform |
| Calabresi, Steven | Carneiro, Henrique | Dueling Moderating Powers |
| Carrel, Alyson | Chokshi, Sohum | Corporate Feudalism |
| Bedi, Sheila | Cooney, Barrett | Honing the American Death Penalty: Practical and Ethical Implications of Expanded Exemptions to Capital Punishment |
| Pedraza-Fariña, Laura | Cure Dominguez, Alvaro | Reverse Survivorship Bias: A Look into Effect and Impact of Overlooked Low-Value Patents on Innovation and Social Welfare |
| Sorensen, Juliet | Davis, Amanda | Magnitsky Research |
| Horwich, Allan | Davis, Matthew | The Old Rule is the Correct Rule: Why the Ninth Circuit Should not Have Rejected the Tracing Requirement in Section 11 Claims |
| Redish, Martin | Dhanoa, Sudeep | Mootness, Case or Controversy, and Separation of Powers |
| Pfander, James | Douglas, Peter | Law, Equity, and Supplemental Jurisdiction |
| Rubinowitz, Leonard | Edmonds, Alexandra | Accommodating Online Spaces in E-commerce: An Examination of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the European Accessibility Act |
| Rubinowitz, Leonard | Edmonds, Maximilian | Justice 2.0: An Examination of the Legal and Social Implications of Algorithmic Policing Technologies |
| Redish, Martin | Hiltner, Victor | Adversary Democratic Due Process |
| Linna Jr., Daniel | Hurtado, Melissa | Artificial Solutions, Real Justice: How AI Legal Tech Solutions Can Improve Client Outcomes and Access to Justice |
| Schwartz, David | Jin, Rebecca | Gender Disparities in USPTO Patent Examination |
| Delaney, Erin | Junaid, Wafa | Colonial Constitutionalism and the Judiciary |
| Levine, Lisa | King, Michael | Examining the Process and Costs of Equitable Resolutions for Athletes, NGBs, and the USOPC |
| Hoeflich, Adam | Kriegel, Oren | Legal Ethics and MDL |
| Rountree, Meredith | Kurland, Kara | Requirements to Properly File State Post-conviction Petitions in Order to Toll AEDPA’s One-year Statute of Limitations on Federal Habeas Review |
| Spitzer, Matthew | Lee, Yongho | The Future of the Law on the Moon |
| Loeb, Nancy | Lempke, Cole | Senior Research Honors: Using the Endangered Species Act to Mitigate Climate Change |
| Rodriguez, Daniel | Matthews, Blair | Reparations are Owed - A Case for the American Decedents of Slavery |
| Redish, Martin | Piatt, Austin | The Paradox of the Administrative State |
| Kugler, Matthew | Ray, Alexandria | Is the CPRA’s Sensitive Personal Information Provision the Future of Privacy Protections for Vulnerable Populations? |
| Calabresi, Steven | Riahi, Nima | Islam and Constitutionalism: The Argument for the Indonesian Model |
| Wang, Xiao | Salzetta, Anthony | Unpuzzling Complete Preemption: BNB v. Anderson After 20 Years |
| Linna Jr., Daniel | Sheehan, Kimberly | How Innovation and Technology Adoption Has Changed and How it is Influencing Corporate Law Practice |
| Allen, Ronald | Smiciklas, Christopher | The Law's Aversion to Naked Statistics and Other Mistakes |
| Allen, Ronald | Smiciklas, Christopher | Minimal Rationality and the Law of Evidence |
| Francis, Clinton | Taylor, Anthony | Blockchain’s Smart Contracts and Applications to the Market |
| McGinnis, John | Yang, Xiaorui | Senior Research Honors: The Roberts Court’s Counter-Reformation in Administrative Law |
2020-21 Senior Research Projects
| Supervising Faculty | Student | Project Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Allen, Ronald | Lawrence, William | Reformulating the Foundations of Evidence Law: Minimal Rationality |
| Barsa, Michael | Flynn, Palden | State Citizen Suit Provisions |
| Bedi, Sheila | Tollner, Terah | "We Keep Us Safe": Movement-Led Proposals for Community Investment and Defunding the Chicago Police Department |
| Delaney, Erin | Mantegani, Joseph | Tribal Courts in Federalist Systems |
| Francis, Clinton | Irfan, Sumair | Ushering a Legal and Financial Creature of the Past into the 21st Century: A Critique and Reimagining of the Capital Structure System in the TMT Sector and Beyond |
| Francis, Clinton | Blosser, Natalie | Toward a More Efficient and Empirically Based System for Allocating Risk, Return and Control Among Capital Providers in Chapter 11 |
| Jacobi, Tonja | Maguire, Addie | The Differences in Policies and Purposes Between Administrative Searches of Probationers and Parolees |
| Jacobi, Tonja | Mascia, Eryn | Language, Power, and Prison Litigation |
| Jacobi, Tonja | Oka, Misty-Ann | Unwarranted: No-Knock Warrants After the Death of Breonna Taylor |
| Jacobi, Tonja | Louthen, Elliot | Inevitable Discovery |
| Kang, Michael | Dodsworth, Harry | The Negative and Positive Purcell Principle |
| Koppelman, Andrew | Kabe, Benjamin | The Process of Self-Government: Addressing the Tension Between Brandeisian Free Speech and Federalism |
| Lupo, James | Turner, Cole | The Law According to Baldwin: Race and Queer Identity in Cultural Responses to Inequality |
| McGinnis, John | Barrett, James | Evidence of Specific Original Methods of Constitutional Interpretation |
| McGinnis, John | Henry, Daniel | Canons of Statutory Interpretation and Administrative Scope of Authority |
| Pfander, James | Barnaby, Natalie | Virginia State Sovereign Immunity in the Post-Revolutionary Period |
| Rubinowitz, Leonard | Fintel, Kate | TBD |
| Schwartz, David | Learned, Glen | The Streamers Dilemma - DMCA Copyright Strikes on ld content |
| Schwartz, David | Rogers, Jules | Patentability of AI-Produced Inventions |
| Shapiro, David | Sopko, Adam | Judicial Perceptions of Risk in Policing (working title) |
| Shoked, Nadav | Stage, David | City Income Taxes & Wealthy Inequality |
| Shoked, Nadav | Le, Amy | The Law of Grants |
| Sorensen, Juliet | Heim, Meredith | Amicus Brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the Case of Manuela and Family v. El Salvador |