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
Interior Landmark Designation and Regulation: Should Government Regulate Publicity Inaccessible Interior Landmarks, Victoria Tesone
Medical Marijuana Patients: Discrimination & The Search for Employment Protections, Joshua Weisenfeld
The Use of Mediation to Resolve Conflicts Arising from Cultural Appropriation by Western Fashion Brands, Faith Adongo
Applicability of International Schemes of Legal Safeguards in Physician Assisted Suicide to Future United States Policy, Annie M. Bonazzi
Peace of Play: For Labor Harmony, Baseball Needs Antitrust Exemption To Go and Salary Cap To Stay, Joshua Burton
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: How New York's Bail Reform Saga Tiptoes Around Addressing Economic Inequality, Daniel Chasin
India's Aadhaar Card - A Violation of Indian Citizen's Right to Privacy, Sonal Chhugani
When Broader Is Better: Interpreting the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act When Employees Exceed Authorization to Access Data, Daniel J. Cohen
A Case for Diversionary Restorative Justice in Cases Involving the Embezzlement of Funds from Small Businesses, Amanda Cooper
Entertainment Consolidation, Content Monopolies, and the Future of Information, Emily Faro
The Fourth Amendment at the Border, Daniel Farrell
Is It Really a #Ad? An Increase in Rising Influencers Posting Fake Sponsored Content, Amanda Guzman
Hong Kong Small House Policy: Modernity, Crisis, Morality & Policies for Repair, Conor J. Hyatt
"If You Can Afford Me": Reconceptualizing Expert Testimony Offered to Calculate Music Copyright Damages, Amanda Inglesh
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
"Gigi, Over Here!": Celebrity Use of Copyrighted Paparazzi Photographs, Dylan B. Reich
The Secrets Behind Reality Television Shows and Their Unconscionable Contracts, Stephanie Rimberg
California's Autonomy under the Clean Air Act: Does EPA Have the Authority to Withdraw an Emissions Standards Waiver?, Ethan Siegel
Post-EtherDelta: Clarifying Liabilities for Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Market Participants, Robert Sistoso
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
RE: The Pretrial Risk Assessment-How New Jersey's Bail Overhaul is Shaping Bail Reform Across the Country, Andrea Coppola
Post-Conviction DNA Testing in Death Row: A Constitutional Argument Under the Due Process Framework, Chi-Hsin Esther Engehart
Escape from Plurality: Why the Best Interest of the Child Is at Risk, Nicole Wren Friedlander
Time for Change: How Google's Anticompetitive Conduct Reveals the Deficiencies of Modern Antitrust Regulation, Benjamin Clay Hughes
Medication-Assisted Treatment: Statutory Schemes & Civil Rights Implications, Melissa Koppel
Should They Stay, or Should They Go? Statue Politics in Shifting Societies: The Permissibility of Peacetime Removal, Alteration and Destruction of Problematic Political Monuments in the United States, Adrienne Liebenberg Nel
A Constitutional Analysis of a Proposal to Expand the Prison Nursery Programs, Lion Song
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
We Presume Too Much: Abandoning the Presumption of Legitimacy in Certain Adoption Matters, Judy Dahl
Abolishing ICE Is Not Enough: Using Conservative Judicial Principles to Protect Unauthorized Immigrants from a "Tyrannical Bureaucracy", Ashley Dylenski
Who Owns African Art? Envisioning a Legal Framework for the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage, Charity Gates
NYC v. Airbnb: New York City's Attempt to Regulate Home-Sharing Platforms and Airbnb's Attempt to Fight Back, Moshe Goldblatt
Dirty Business: Accountability for Harmful Pesticide Use in Brazil, Anna Goldstein
The REAL ID Act: Real Consequences Involving Immigration Status & Eligibility Requirement Concerns for Immigrants, Rachael Marvin
Healers or Dealers: The Effect of Doctors Committing Health Care Fraud on the Opioid Epidemic, Peri Novick
Patents As Property: Oil States and Its Implications on the Takings Clause, Jordan T. Owens
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: What Impact, if Any, Has It Had on Reproductive Health and Abortion Rights Around the World?, Casey Katz Pearlman
Privacy in the Digital Age: Is Our Data Safe?, Ezra Wolfson
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
Art as a Weapon, Sahar Akhavan
The Need for Negotiation in Water Resource Disputes Between Central Asian States, Tamiris Askarova
Where Drugs Are Involved, Universities Offer Education and Rehabilitation, While the Juvenile Justice System Offers Detention and Punishment: Why Juvenile Drug Courts Are the Answer, Samantha Balanevsky
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
Forgive Me Father, For I Have Sinned: Explicitly Enumerating Clergy Members as Mandatory Reporters to Combat Child Sexual Abuse in New York, Gabriella DeRitis
Media in Flux: Does Consolidation Promote the Public Interest?, Simone A. Dvoskin
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
Legal Graffiti and Copyright: How the Law Falls Short in Protecting This Important Artform, Kayla Epstein
Lights, Camera, State Action: Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, Graham L. Fisher
Scrolling, Trolling, and Uploading: YouTube's Impact on Modern Public Discourse, Internet Regulation, and Free Speech, Brett Gossett
How Mediation Between Schools and Students Will Help Students Combat Student Debt, Joshua A. Graber
Why Can't We All Just Cher?: Drag Celebrity Impersonators Versus an Ever-Expanding Right of Publicity, Emily Hoenig
A Presumption in Favor of Openness: Unsealing Adoption Records, Emily Ingall
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
These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends: When Livestreaming Turns Deadly, Who Takes Responsibility?, Joseph Palumbo
The New York Prosecutorial Conduct Commission and the Dawn of a New Era of Reform for Prosecutors, Clyde Rastetter
One Consumer’s Trash is Another’s Treasure: Upcycling’s Place in Trademark Law, Jolie Brett Schenerman
“Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”: Conceptualizing the Artist-Manager Relationship as a Marriage for Purposes of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Gillian Sloane
Siri, Define "Article of Manufacture": Redesigning the Definition of "Article of Manufacture" in Section 289 of the Patent Act, Samantha M. Wald
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
Making the Leap from Bullying to Equality: An Analysis of Transgender Student Rights, Nathan Ades
