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Student Articles & Notes

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 2024 2024

Race against the Clock: A Comparative Analysis of New York State's and Germany's Ambitious High-Voltage Transmission Sitting Laws and What New York Can Adopt from the German Model, Andrew Leahy

Speaking Authorship: Honoring Indigenous Language Sovereignty in Joint Authorship Doctrines, Nancy Fu

Bound to Misfortune: Protecting Juvenile Abortion Through the Right to Travel, John H.C. Hughes

Who Gets to Reap What They Sow? Addressing the Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants from Income Tax Benefits and Designing a Solution, Gabriela Amaral

It Takes a Special Person to Raise a Special Needs Child: How New York's Existing Family Regulation Systems Are Not Equipped for Children with Autism, Alexandra DeBenedictis

The Need for Fentanyl-Specific Drug Education in Schools, Emma Guggenheimer

No Child Left Online: Influencer “Sharenting” as a Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Caroline Harrod

All for One, One for None: Arrington v. Burger King Worldwide and the Single-Entity Defense for Franchises, Tyler Nappo

Unconscionability & Involuntary Arbitration Agreements: The Systemic Exploitation of Immigrant Labor in the United States, Isabel Ortega-Romero

Emotionally Harmed? It Might Not Matter: An Analysis of Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller and Its Implications for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Sotir Zhupa

Condensing the Alphabet Soup: Missed Administrative Rulemaking Concerns in U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission v. Alpine Securities Corporation, David Davani

Whither Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in New York? The AFFH Mandate in an Era of Land Use Reform, Timothy Gentles

“Swifties” or Swift Suppression? How Police Officers Exploit Copyright Law and Practice Online to Evade Public Accountability, Jeremy Lamstein

Meaningful or Meaningless? The Temporal Scope of the Constitutional Right of Access to Courts for Incarcerated Litigants, Alison Aimers

Drug Addiction, Insanity, and Competency: How the Halimi Case Galvanizes a U.S.-Inspired Reform of France's Criminal Responsibility System, Ruben Attia

Stronger - Not Together: The Needed Elimination of Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Misconduct Claims Against the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee & International Olympic Committee, Peri L. Ayzidor

Always a Suspect: Law Enforcement's Violative Use of Geofence Warrants and Geolocation Data in Criminal Investigations and Proceedings, Aaron A. Bengart

The Use of Mediation to Reduce Medical Malpractice Claims, Unnecessary Antimicrobial Therapy, and Resistance Rates in Patients across the Nation, Shifra Ben-Jacob

What Recent Scrutiny Surrounding New Jersey's Newborn Screening Program Is Missing: Comment on the Reproductive and Social Justice Issues the Program Illuminates, Dylan Blanchard

Monitoring France's Performance Under the Strategic Action Plan for Roma and Traveller Inclusion (2020-2025), Sarah Brody

Deceptive by Nature: A Model for Regulating Native and Embedded Advertising in the Contexts of Children's Audiences, Zach Cihlar

Satire and Actual Malice: Expanding the Reasonable Reader Analysis for the Modem Era, Cory Crystal

Tackling the Thicket: A Comparative Analysis of Biologic Drugs and Biosimilars in the United States and Abroad, Lauren Cutler

What Happens When the Conflicts of Interest Board Does Not Prevent Conflicts? Examining New York City Charter Chapter 68, Abigail Damsky

Multi-Track Diplomacy & the Abraham Accords: A Blueprint for Broader Middle Eastern Peace between Israel and the Arab World Based upon Shared Economic Interests, Security, and Grassroots Peacebuilding, Eliott Dosetareh

Beat It: A Proposal to End Masturbation Bans in Prisons, Madison Dougherty

Service of Process via NFT Airdrops: The Pathway to Private Litigation for Injured Web3 Plaintiffs, Sophia Dudgeon

Holocaust Denial Legislation in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, and the United States: How the Law Presently Addresses the Issue and Proposals for Reform, Madeline Epstein

Death at the Door of Relief: The Criminalization of Humanitarian Work and Asylum, William Fox

Reducing the American National Debt by Negotiating New Tax Practices on Internal Revenue Code Sec. 501(c) Organizations, Armando D. Gonzalez

Incentivizing Innovation in the Realm of Social Goods: Patent Law's Unintended Inhibiting Effect on Environmental Technological Advancement, Ethan Graham

For the Love of the Game: Examining the Legality of Unofficial Fan Video Game Remakes, Madeleine Higgs

(In)Dependence Day: Why the Modern Streaming Industry Requires Modern Antitrust Enforcement, Samuel Kahn

Farewell to Cultural Superiority: Resolving the Alleged Chinese Misappropriation of Korean Cultural Heritage through UNESCO's 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Daniel Hyungtae Kim

Incorporating Alternative Dispute Resolution at the United Nations: Establishing and Implementing and Arbitration Panel to Determine Whether a Permanent Member of the Security Council Can or Cannot Veto Proposed Resolutions Potentially Involving Human Rights Violations and Mass Atrocities, Jillian Leavey

The New Frontier for Bankruptcy: Crypto, Lindy Lofton

Addressing New York's Scaffolding Issue through an Arbitration Framework, Jared Man

Taxing Wealth: A Comparative Analysis of National Wealth Taxes and How a Federal Wealth Tax Can Overcome Administrative Challenges, Jason Nadboy

Use of Collaborative Governance in Passing Effective Abortion Laws in Texas to Decrease Rates of Injury, Criminal Penalties, and Civil Litigation, Nowshin Nawal

Regulating Cryptocurrency: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and EU Approaches, Xander Xueyang Peng

Unblocking the Chain: Leveraging Mediation and Negotiation in Crypto Exchange User Disputes, Jane Perov

Dance like Everyone Is Watching: Why TikTok Choreography and Copyright Aren't in Sync, Roseanne Planker

Professional Norms at a Crossroads: Farhane and Its Implications for Legal Counsel, Hayley Sandoval

Early Neutral Evaluation in Baseball Arbitration, Yakov Schwalb

Against the Current: Charting a New Course for Human Rights in Sustainable Fisheries Management, James H. Stitt

Justice over Finality: Compassionate Release as a Mechanism to Correct Sentencing Errors, Eliza Stup

"Those Were Just Demos and Never Intended to Be Heard by the Public", Ryan Whyte

Negotiating in the Fast Lane: Developing an Integrative Bargaining Scheme for Formula One Licensing Agreements with Street Circuit Venues, Nicholas Wynne

If It Can Make It There, It Can Make It Anywhere: How New York's "Green Amendment" Is Catalyzing Environmental Progress in Light of Federal Failures, Zoe Zingale

Squatters Squabbles: The Use of Mediation to Provide Beneficial Solutions to Adverse Possession Claims in New Jersey, Bayla Zohn

Submissions from 2023 2023

In Satan We Trust: The Satanic Temple’s Ongoing Crusade to Protect Abortion Rights, Bradley Koberg

No Bullying Allowed Here: Adopting a Misuse Doctrine to Defeat Trademark Bullies, Jessica Shechtman

Navigating Campaign Finance Reform Through Publicly Funded Elections on the Local Level, Emily Bernstein

A Rights-Based Approach to Determining Venue for Immigration Removal Hearings, Maleah Bradley

Wrong Search at the Wrong Time: Keyword Search Warrants and the Fourth Amendment, Nicole Chan

The Writing on the Wall: A Proposal for Reform of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Wake of the Trump Administration's Border Wall, Sean Dalton

Arguing Arbitration Waiver After Morgan v. Sundance A Path to Hold Debt Buyers Accountable for Abusive Collection Litigation, Noa Gutow-Ellis

Juvenile Genetic Privacy in New York: DNA Collection and Maintenance Post-Francis O., Cassidy Moon

Bolstering New York’s Tenant Protection Law: Ensuring Retroactive Application Under the Heightened Regina Standard, Abigail Strange

Growth Beyond Its Limits - How Much Growth Is Too Much for the Purpose of the Local Government Antitrust Act of 1984?, Katherine Stern

To Protect or Not to Protect?: Unveiling the Courts’ Failures to Hold Law Enforcement Accountable for Inadequate Responses to Mental Health Crises After Wilson v. Gregory, Carly Zdankowski

The Drug Policy Reform Act: Analyzing the Potential Future of United States Federal Drug Policy, Justin Danziger

Pretrial Release, Risk Assessment, and the Failing Movement Towards a Cashless Bail System: The Need to Target the Source, Brooke Hodgins

People Over Profits: Why a Private Right of Action in the Occupational Safety and Health Act is Necessary During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Olivia Nevola

Adolescent Brain Development and Crime: Why New York State Should Increase the Age of Criminal Culpability to Twenty-One Years Old, Julia Patz

Judicial Interpretation by Bankruptcy Courts and the Department of Education Regarding the Application of the Undue Hardship ("Brunner") Standard to Student Loan Discharges, Anda Totoreanu

How to Alleviate the Repercussions of Wrongful Convictions: Holistically Righting the Wrongs of Inadequate Compensation Statutes, Marissa Cohen

Beyond Offense: Why the First Amendment Does Not Protect Deliberate Misgendering, Molly Dower

A No Man’s Land of Fair Use: Marano v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sarah Landry

Gender Registration and International Law: Are Gender Markers Necessary?, Mika D'Angelo

Lipstick & the Law: An Exploration of the American and French Statutory Protections against Makeup Mandates in the Workplace, Kira Dennis

Tracing Heritage: Addressing Cultural Property Crime through Recordation on the Blockchain, Richard de Schweinitz

The Hague Convention on International Parental Kidnapping: Still the Best Hope for Children?, Katherine Jenkins

Battling Batson: State v. Andujar and New Jersey's Efforts to Fix a Broken Doctrine, Eli Shahar

The Due Process Owed to Noncitizens: Standardizing the Burden in Sec. 1226(a) Bond Hearings with the Help of Hernandez-Lara and Velasco Lopez, Sharon Shaji

An Examination of U.S. and U.K. Procedures Governing Sexual Misconduct Investigations in Universities, Marc Siegel

Integrating Cultural Property Law Doctrine into the Nazi-Looted Art Restitution Legal Framework, Julia Vastano

Mission Impossible? The Case for Municipal Tort Liability Reform in a Post-Valdez World, Shelley Wu

The Art World of Digital Assets: How Non-Fungible Tokens Create a Loophole in Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, Sofia Aizenman

Can Artists Recapture Their Copyrights in Musical Compositions That Have Been Lost to the Public Domain? Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin Applied, Brianna Bell

Bond Conditions as Fourth Amendment Seizures, Rebecca Laden

Should the NCAA be Subject to Title IX?, Sarah Allen

Physical Scars Are Not the Only Evidence: Crucial Expansion of New York's Penal Law to Define Coercive Control and Technological Abuse as Domestic Violence, Bailey D. Appel

Accelerating Toward the Inevitable: How Covid-19 Helped Alter Traditional Models of Talent Compensation in the Film Industry, Raven Berzal

A Portrait of the Artist’s Heirs in Mediation: ADR Techniques to Prevent and Resolve Disputes Following an Author’s Death, Nicholas Beudert

Easing the Burden of Survivors of Domestic Violence Through the "One Family, One Judge" Court Model: Why Integrated Domestic Violence ("IDV") Courts Should Be Instituted Throughout the United States, Elka B. Blonder

Making Justice Available for Victims of Sexual Misconduct Within the Prison System, Emma L. Bruder

Reconsidering a Private Right of Action under VAWA: How the Media Portrays Violence Against Women and its Effect on Commerce Clause Jurisprudence, Lauren Chamberlin

Digital Purgatory and the Rights of the Dead: Protecting Against Digital Disinterment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Greyson Cohen

The FTC's "Made in America" Enforcement Policy Is Too Stringent for Small Businesses to Comply With, Jamie Cutler

Arbitrating Social Media Content: A Framework for Banning High-Profile Users through Third-Party Arbitration, Rachel Gershengoren

Fragmented Music Copyright Protection: A Better Arrangement, Matthew B. Goldman

Fight for Your Life: A Study of Fairness in the Ultimate Fighting Championship's Anti-Doping Policy Appeals Process, Brandon Hamroff

Conflict Resolution-Negotiation: LIV v. PGA Tour, Ross Herman

Improving New York City's COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Public Sector Workers: A Collaborative Framework for Labor-Management Relations in High Impact Circumstances, Chelsea Hill

Easing Evictions: The Need for Mediation and Formal Eviction Guidelines between New York City Landlords and Rent-Stabilized Tenants, Halle Jaffe

Strengthening NAGPRA, B. Stephen Jones

America Is Watching, But Are They Listening?, Nancy Kartos

Applying Family Mediation to the Creation of Psychiatric Advance Directives, Olivia Kalsner Kershen

Don't Foreclose on Me: ADR's Role in Regulating the Foreclosure Power of Homeowners Association in the Aftermath of COVID-19, Jessica Lalehzar