This collection showcases articles and notes authored by students of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. These works reflect the depth of research, critical analysis, and innovative thinking contributed by our student community across a wide range of legal topics. Many of these pieces originate from student-run journals and reflect the authors’ engagement with current legal debates, emerging areas of law, and scholarly discourse. By preserving these works in our institutional repository, we ensure that student scholarship remains accessible to future researchers, practitioners, and the broader legal community.
Submissions from 2021
Defining Necessary Deadly Force for Police: A Framework for Interpreting California’s A.B. 392, Alison Goldman
The Inadequacy of the Impossible: Obtaining Post-Conviction DNA Testing in Alabama, Trena Riley
"Complaints" About Eviction: Central Housing and Minnesota’s Approaches to Retaliatory Eviction Protection, Tyler C. Dixon III
Exhausting Comity-Based Abstention in the FSIA’s Expropriation Exception, Avi Rosskamm
How Do You Know It Was Me? A Case Comment on Cobbler Nevada, LLC v. Gonzales, David T. Frankel
"And the Oscar Goes To . . .": Why the Academy Awards May Create Antitrust Drama with Proposed Eligibility Rule Changes, Armando Marin III
"What Makes You Think You Can Do That?": How Venue Restrictions Prevent Access to Abortion for Minors in Arkansas, Bella Mancini Pori
Toward a Rights-based Model of Economic Sanctions, Seyed Mohsen Rowhani
Deeply Fake, Deeply Disturbing, Deeply Constitutional: Why the First Amendment Likely Protects the Creation of Pornographic Deepfakes, Bradley Waldstreicher
The Use of Mediation to Resolve Conflicts Arising from Cultural Appropriation by Western Fashion Brands, Faith Adongo
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: How New York's Bail Reform Saga Tiptoes Around Addressing Economic Inequality, Daniel Chasin
A Case for Diversionary Restorative Justice in Cases Involving the Embezzlement of Funds from Small Businesses, Amanda Cooper
Hong Kong and China: Building Bridges between Two Systems in One Country, Harold Kang
Website Accessibility Lawsuits: Using Online Dispute Resolution to Provide More Efficient Outcomes within the Second Circuit, Zachary Kriesberg
2020 International Advocate for Peace Award, Melanie Leslie, Lela P. Love, Zachary Kriesberg, Prabha Sankaranarayan, Ken Cloke, Dave Joseph, Gwendolyn Meyers, Mary Montague, and Shadia Marhaban
Applying Mediation to the Complexities of Surrogacy Agreements, Aude-Mazarine Lestienne
As Long as You Love Me: The Effects of Enforcing Prenuptial Agreements on Intimate Partner Violence, Annie L. Zagha
Submissions from 2020
Untag Me: Why Federal Judges are Broadly Construing Illinois’s Biometric Privacy Law, Lisa P. Angeles
Oklahoma v. Purdue Pharma: Public Nuisance in Your Medicine Cabinet, Justin Kaufman
Child Abuse and Cannabis Use: How a Prima Facie Standard Mischaracterizes Parental Cannabis Consumption as Child Neglect, Jasmine Harris
Contracting Away Your Career: An Interstate Comparison of Noncompete Law and a Proposal for Optimal Legislation in New York, Matthew Rametta
Competing Free Speech Rights: Evaluating Compelled Disclosures on Food Packaging in a Way That Reflects Scientific Realities - Or a Lack Thereof, Rakelle Shapiro
When a Picture Is Not Worth a Thousand Words: Why Emojis Should Not Satisfy the Statute of Frauds' Writing Requirement, Moshe Berliner
The Right of Publicity as Market Regulator in the Age of Social Media, Barbara Bruni
The Efficacy of Choice-of-Law and Forum Selection Provisions in Third-Party Litigation Funding Contracts, Robert Glenn
Discrimination and Privacy Concerns at the Intersection of Healthcare and Big Data, James Koenderman
Patents As Property: Oil States and Its Implications on the Takings Clause, Jordan T. Owens
Strategies for Emergency Release of Incarcerated People during Covid-19 Outbreak, Sara Alvarez, Andrew Kopke, Mariel Stein, and Meg Tiley
Securing the Best Odds: Why Congress Should Regulate Sports Gambling Based on Securities-Style Mandatory Disclosure, Ryan Grandeau
Countering Misinformation in the Health Care System: The Case for Stricter Regulations within Health Insurance Provider Directories, Jaclyn Kleban
Inter(Lock)down: The Need for Stricter Enforcement of Section 8 of the Clayton Act, Shafkat Rakib
The Need for Negotiation in Water Resource Disputes Between Central Asian States, Tamiris Askarova
Using Mediation to Get NHL Players Back in the Winter Olympics, Jared Brover
The Trump Administration’s Social Security Rules Will Harm Innovation in the Assistive Technology Industry and People with Disabilities, Christopher Buccafusco and Mariel Talmage
A Tangled Web: Can Arbitration Be the Answer to Resolving Manufactured Credit Event Disputes?, Adam Eisenbud
Where's the Beef: The Use of Mediation to Resolve Disputes Between Rappers, Craig Epstein
Lights, Camera, State Action: Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, Graham L. Fisher
How Mediation Between Schools and Students Will Help Students Combat Student Debt, Joshua A. Graber
The Ongoing Speculation About Smart Contracts: Smart Enough to Replace Third Party Arbitrators, or Is "Smart" Just A Misnomer?, Rakhil Kalantarova
Easy as ABC: Why the ABC Test Should Be Adopted as the Sole Test of Employee–Independent Contractor Status, Eric Markovits
The New York Prosecutorial Conduct Commission and the Dawn of a New Era of Reform for Prosecutors, Clyde Rastetter
“Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”: Conceptualizing the Artist-Manager Relationship as a Marriage for Purposes of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Gillian Sloane
Don't Fight Like Cats and Dogs: Using Mediation for Workplace Accommodation Requests for Service Animals, John F. Walpole
Child Vehicular Heatstroke Deaths: How the Criminal Legal System Punishes Grieving Parents Over a Neurobiological Response, Amanda Washabaugh
Submissions from 2019
Killer's Code: Familial DNA Searches through Third-Party Databases under Carpenter, Jesse Kitnick
Katz in the Cradle: The Second Justice Harlan and Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in Electronic Transactional Information, Zachary Silver
When Deprivation of Access to Literacy Infringes on Indigent Parents' Right to Direct the Education of Their Children, Dana Leone Kennedy
The "Natural" Response to Adjudicating Current Litigation When the Creation of a Related Agency Rule Is Simultaneously Underway, Lauren Kostman
The Right to Appointed Counsel: The Case for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Amanda Kavita Sewanan
Child Marriage in America: An Interim Solution Pending a Total Ban, Raquel Wildes Genet
The Courtroom Turned Classroom: A Model Procedure for Educating the Gatekeepers of Expert Evidence in Complex Toxic Tort Cases, Izabelle Tully
Sexual Ageplay in Virtual Reality: Practicing Free Speech or Producing Child Pornography?, Lillian Esposito
Familial Searching: How Implementing Minimum Safeguards Ensures Constitutionally-Permissible Use of This Powerful Investigative Tool, Alexandra Nieto
Re-Examining Custody and Incarceration Requirements in Postconviction DNA Testing Statutes, Ian J. Postman
War Torts, Autonomous Weapon Systems, and Liability: Why a Limited Strict Liability Tort Regime Should Be Implemented, Elizabeth Fuzaylova
How Playlists Broke the Internet: An Analysis of Copyright in Playlist Ownership, Tori Misrok
Too Big for Personal Jurisdiction? A Proposal to Hold Companies Accountable for In-State Conduct in Accordance with Due Process Principles, Polina Pristupa
Mediation as an Alternative to Litigation for Child Custody Disputes for Incarcerated Parents, Maria Abbruzzese
The Universal Periodic Review as a Form of Alternative Dispute Resolution: Strengths & Shortcomings, Sara Alvarez
Kids Say the Darndest Things: Minors and the Internet, Emily DiRoma
A Cashless Economy: How to Protect the Low-Income, Samuel Erlanger
Beeware of the Consequences: The Importance of Urban Apiaries and Environmental ADR, Chelsea Gallay
Editor's Note & Acknowledgments, Nicholas Gliagias
Using Restorative Dialogue as an Assimilation Technique for Unaccompanied Children Escaping Gang Violence, Naomi Jawahar
The Role of Transformative Mediation in Family Business Disputes, Jacob Lebovics
Remodifying Colombian Peace Process: A Critical Perspective and a Demand for Justice, Armando Martinez
Novel Adaptation to Stage and Screen: Rethinking the Contractual and Creative Process, Jennifer Rainville McCabe
Solving the Problem-Solver Problem: How a Revamp of Arbitral Ethics Will Encourage Plaintiffs and Benefit Defendants, Lindsey Rubinstein
A Solution to The Silencing and Denial: How ADR Can Harmonize Catholic Law with the International Communities Demand to End the Sexual Victimization of Children in the Catholic Church, Danielle Shayne Shapero
Arbitration as the Ideal Method of Labor Law Dispute Resolution: A Case Study Using 14 Penn Plaza LLC, et al. v. Steven Pyett, et al., Douglas Shribman
When the Rich Regret: The Case of Non-payment in Art Auction Sales, Allison Trupp
Submissions from 2018
Combating the Actor's Sacrifice: How to Amend Federal Labor Law to Influence the Labor Practices of Theaters and Incentivize Actors to Fight for Their Rights, Shelley Attadgie
Conspiracy: Contemporary Gang Policing and Prosecutions, Keegan Stephan
The Futility of Futility: An Analysis of the Charlie Gard Case Within the Framework of U.S. Law, Elana Bengualid
A Fish Out of Water: Why the GAO's Approach to Finding Agency Propaganda Is Inadequate in the Social Media Age, Jennifer Pierce
O.K. Computer: The Devolution of Human Creativity and Granting Musical Copyrights to Artificially Intelligent Joint Authors, Jared Vasconcellos Grubow
Babies Having Babies: Advocating for a Different Standard for Minor Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases, Emily Barry
Lease Terminations as Fraudulent Transfers: Reconciling Bankruptcy Code Sections 548 and 365(c)(3), Patrick J. Glackin
Facilitating the Intent of Deceased Social Media Users, Yael Mandel
Framed by Forensics: Fulfilling Daubert's Gatekeeping Function by Segregating Science from the Adversarial Model, Kayla Marie Mannucci
Artificially Intelligent Lawyers: Updating the Model Rules of Professional Conduct in Accordance with the New Technological Era, Katherine Medianik
Deconstructing the DAO: The Need for Legal Recognition and the Application of Securities Laws to Decentralized Organizations, Laila Metjahic
"Too Big to FOIA": How Agencies Avoid Compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, Stephanie Alvarez-Jones
