student prizes 2013–2014
Neale M. Albert Fund Prize
Awarded for the best paper
on the subject of art law
Jacob Victor ’14
“Copyright in Traditional Cultural Expression: Assessing the Normative Stakes”
Charles G. Albom Prize
Awarded annually to a student who
demonstrates excellence in the area of judicial
and/or administrative appellate advocacy in
connection with a Law School clinical program
Caitlin Bellis ’14
Cynthia Liao ’14
Max Mishkin ’14
Aadhithi Padmanabhan ’14
Burton H. Brody Prize
Awarded for the best paper
on constitutional privacy
Micah Fergenson ’14
“The Objections to NSA Surveillance: Or, How We Might Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the NSA.”
Nathan Burkan Memorial Corporation Prize
Awarded for the best paper(s)
in the field of copyright law
Rebecca Wexler ’16
“The Private Life of DRM: How Fundamental Rights Frame Copyright Enforcement Reform”
The Joseph A. Chubb Competition Prize
Awarded for excellence in legal draftsmanship
Lise Rahdert ’15
David Felton ’14
Thomas I. Emerson Prize
Awarded for a distinguished paper or
project on a subject related to legislation
Kellen Funk (Joint Degree) ’14
“‘The Faith of the Lawyer Is Much Akin to
That of the Theologian’: The Theological
Framework of the American Codification
Debates”
Quintin Johnstone Prize in Real Property
Law, Established by the CATIC Foundation
Awarded to a second- or third-year student
at the Law School who has demonstrated
excellence in the area of real property law
Steven Kochevar ’14
“The Rise of Institutional Mortgage Lending
in Early Nineteenth-Century New Haven”
Florence M. Kelley ’37 Family Law Prize
Ambrose Gherini Prize
Awarded to the student who demonstrates
Awarded for the best paper in the field of
exceptional interest or achievement
International Law, either public or private
in the area of family law
Rachel Bayefsky ’15
Ariel Stevenson ’14
“Pulp Mills on Environmental Impact
Assessment: A Giant Leap, or a Small Step?” “Replacing Lost Tax Revenue in Migrant–Source Countries”
Michael Shih ’14
Alexa Lutchen ’14
“Not This Port in the Storm: Climate
Alicia LeVezu ’14
Litigation and the Law of the Sea”
for their work in the Sol and Lillian
Goldman Family Advocacy for Children
Margaret Gruter Prize
and Youth Clinic
Awarded for the best paper on how ethology,
biology, and related behavior sciences may
William T. Ketcham, Jr. Prize
deepen our understanding of law
Awarded for the best paper in
Christian Mott ’15
the field of private international law
“Nudges & Freedom”
William A. Smiley, iv ’14
“Creeping Sharia? The Irrelevance Jerome Sayles Hess Prize for and Non-Necessity of Foreign Law Bans”
International Law
Awarded for the student who demonstrates
Khosla Memorial Fund for excellence in the area of international law
Human Dignity Prize
Julia Brower ’14
Awarded to the student who best demonstrates
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an active engagement in advancing the values
of human dignity in the international arena
Marshall Jewell Prize
Celso Perez Carballo ’14
Awarded for the best second-year student
Ingrid (Deborah) Francois ’14
contribution to a law journal other
than The Yale Law Journal
Daniel Herz-Roiphe ’15
“The Young, the Old and the Economists:
Rethinking How Agencies Account for Age in Cost-Benefit Analysis”
Edgar M. Cullen Prize
Awarded for the best paper by a
first-year student
Julian J. Z. Polaris ’15
Elizabeth Ingriselli ’16
“Principles over Principals? “Mitigating Jurors’ Racial Biases: The Effects
How Innovation Affects the Agency
of Content and Timing of Jury Instructions” Relationship in Medical and Legal Practice”
Raphael Lemkin Prize
Awarded for a paper in the
field of international human rights
Leah Zamore ’14
“Guantánamo Bay: A Prehistory”
Stephen J. Massey Prize
Awarded to the student who best exemplifies,
in work on behalf of clients and in other
community service, the values of the Jerome N.
Frank Legal Services Organization
at Yale Law School
Daniel D. Abraham ’14
Angela Cai ’14
Gillian Quandt ’14
Alaina Varvaloucas ’14
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Judge William E. Miller Prize
Awarded for the best paper
concerning the Bill of Rights
Benjamin Eidelson ’14
“‘Judged by Ancestry’: The Uncertain Appeal
to Individualism in Equal Protection Law”
C. LaRue Munson Prize
Awarded for excellence in the investigation,
preparation, and (where permitted under the
Legal Internship Rule) presentation of civil,
criminal, or administrative law cases, under
a Law School clinical program
Sarah Grusin ’14
Renagh O’Leary ’14
Tina Thomas ’14
Joseph Parker Prize
Awarded for the best paper on a subject
relating to legal history or Roman law
Steven Kochevar ’14
“The Rise of Institutional Mortgage Lending in Early Nineteenth-Century New Haven”
Israel H. Peres Prize
Awarded for the best student Note or
Comment appearing in The Yale Law Journal
Rachel Bayefsky ’15
“Dignity as a Value in Agency Cost-Benefit Analysis”
Clifford L. Porter Prize
Awarded for an outstanding student
performance in taxation
Zachary Liscow ’15
“Are Court Orders Responsible for the
‘Return to the City’?: The Consequence of School Finance Litigation”
Edward D. Robbins Memorial Prize
Awarded to the best third-year student
contribution to a law journal other
than The Yale Law Journal
Paul Connell ’14
Tian Huang ’13
“An Empirical Analysis of CFIUS: Examining Foreign Investment Regulation in the United States”
Colby Townsend Prize
Awarded for the best paper
by a second-year student
Zachary Liscow ’15
“Are Court Orders Responsible for the
‘Return to the City’?: The Consequence of
School Finance Litigation”
William K.S. Wang Prize
Awarded to recognize superior performance
in the introductory corporate law course
Victor Chiu ’15
Edward Fox ’15
Michael Zucker ’16
Francis Wayland Prize
Awarded to the student showing greatest
proficiency in preparing and presenting a
case in negotiation, arbitration, and litigation
Abigail Graber ’14
Kendall Hoechst ’14
Roger Maldonado ’14
Jessica Marsden ’14
Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize
Awarded annually to the best student
paper written in law and economics.
Edward Fox ’15
Conor Clarke ’15
“Tax Expenditures and Direct Spending: A Survey Experiment”
Jon Fougner ’14
“Weighing Pro- and Anti-Competitive Effects of Consortium Bidding”
barristers’ union prizes
John Fletcher Caskey Prize
For the best presentation of a case on final
trial in the Thomas Swan Barristers’ Union
Benjamin Graham ’15
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moot court prizes
Thurman Arnold Appellate Competition Prize
Awarded annually for the best student
argument in advanced Moot Court competition
Jane Chong ’14
Benjamin N. Cardozo Prize
Awarded for the best brief submitted
by a student in Moot Court
Ryan Watzel ’14
Benjamin Field ’14
Potter Stewart Prize
Awarded each term to the student team
that presents the best overall
argument in Moot Court
fall 2012
Jeffrey Kane ’14
Daniel Herz-Roiphe ’15
spring 2013
Jane Chong ’14
Courtney Dixon ’15
Harlan Fiske Stone Prize
Awarded for the best oral argument
by a student in Moot Court
John J. Snidow ’14
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Michael Egger Prize
Awarded on recommendation of the Board of
Officers for the best student Note or Comment in
The Yale Law Journal on current social problems
Shaun Mahaffy ’13
“The Case for Tax: A Comparative Approach
to Innovation Policy”
John Currier Gallagher Prize
For the student showing most proficiency in
the presentation of a case on final trial in the
Thomas Swan Barristers’ Union
Benjamin Wallace ’16
Benjamin Scharps Prize
Awarded for the best paper
by a third-year student
Bridget Fahey ’14
“Consent Procedures and
American Federalism”
Sarah Grusin ’14
“The Unheralded Rise and Imminent
Demise of Structural Reform Litigation in Health Care”
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Prize-winning papers have been posted to a digital repository at http://lsr.nellco.org/yale/ylsspps/