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 2017
Using Crisis Negotiation Team Methods to Decrease Violence in Prisons, Emily Katz
Zealous and Effective Advocacy: An Assessment of the Constitutional Right to Counsel Within a Drug Court Proceeding, Sarah Kirschenheiter
Early Non-Military Intervention to Prevent Atrocity Crimes, Sarah Lesser
Transforming Business Through Proactive Dispute Management, Deborah Masucci and Shravanthi Suresh
Utilizing Alternative Dispute Resolution to Foster Comprehensive Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Michael Meyers
Holocaust-Era Art Restitution Claims: Is the HEAR Act a Game Changer?, Rachel Sklar
Hollywood Accounting: Profit Participation and the use of Mediation as A Mode of Resolving these Disputes, Eric Strum
Is it Time to Pay Attention? Critiquing the Cognitive Enhancement Drug Policies and Appeals Process in United States Collegiate Sports, David Swiedler
The History and Legacy of the Pound Conferences, Lara Traum and Brian Farkas
Developing Improved Tactics for Advance Pricing Agreements to Decrease Negotiation Lead Time, Ryan Vines
Submissions from 2016
Where Techs Rush in, Courts Should Fear to Tread: How Courts Should Respond to the Changing Economics of Today, Melanie DeFiore
Fallacies in the Current Methods of Prosecuting International Commercial Bribery, Ira Handa
The Insular Citizens: America's Lost Electorate v. Stare Decisis, Nathan Muchnick
Bullying and the Individuals with Disabililities Education Act (IDEA): A Framework for Provising Relief to Students with Disabilities, Sarah H. Ganley
Till v. SCS Credit Corporation: A "Prime-Plus-Plus" Method Tilling Courts to Consider Efficient Market Evidence, Emma J. Guido
A Tri-Partite Classification Scheme to Clarify Conceptual Separability in the Context of Clothing Design, Giovanna Marchese
Doe v. O'Donnell and New York's Sex Offender Registration Act: The Problem of Continued Registration Under SORA After Leaving the State, Samantha R. Millar
The Mann Act and Crossing State Lines: Maybe You Should Have Known, Alison Gross
Creditor Claims for Postpetition Attorneys' Fees Incurred in Bankruptcy Litigation and the Role of State Law, Laith Hamdan
Cracking the Code: Implementing Internet Accessibility Through the Americans with Disabilities Act, Carly Schiff
International Accountability in U.S. Law: A Call for Legislation, Jonah Diamond
My Body, My Property, My Baby? The Extension of Property Rights to Sexual Reproductive Cells and Embryos, Chanel Vegh
The Death Penalty Experiment: State-Sanctioned Laboratories of Death, Steffi Yellin
The Vicious Cycle of Hate: Systemic Flaws in Hate Crime Documentation in the United States and the Impact on Minority Communities, Harbani Ahuja
The Uniform Trust Code and the Common Law: An Analysis of Three Sections of the Code That Deviate from the Common Law and Why the Drafters Changed the Law, Christina Bogdanski
"ETA?" Estimated Time of Arrival: An Analysis of New Jersey's Remote Texting Liability, Jennifer Edelson
Love Is Love: Why Intentional Parenting Should Be the Standard for Two-Mother Families Created Through Egg-Sharing, Francesca Rebecca Acocella
Be Fruitful and Multiply After Death, but at Whose Expense?: Survivor Benefits for the Posthumously Conceived Children of Fallen Soldiers, David Teitelbaum
NEPA and Uncertainty in Low-Risk, High-Impact Scenarios: Nuclear Energy as a Case Study, Irene Weintraub
Inverse Logic: The Shortcomings of Preventing Corporate Tax Inversion Through Amending Section 7874, Kathy Wong
No Better Instrument: The Necessity of Notice and an Opportunity to Be Heard and the Due Process Deficiencies of Nuisance Abatement, Elise Bernlohr
Obesity Regulation Under Home Rule: An Argument That Regulation by Local Governments Is Superior to Administrative Agencies, Patrick M. Steel
Reining in Recalcitrant Broker-Dealers: Customers Negotiating With Broker-Dealers to Arbitrate Before Seeking Interpleader, Rushelle Bailey
Race-Based Reverse Employment Discrimination Claims: A Combination of Factors to the Prima Facie Case for Caucasian Plaintiffs, Shirley W. Bi
Heads Up: The Concussion Crisis, Gabriel Blum
A Limited Right to be Forgotten to Protect the Privacy Rights of Juvenile Offenders, Danyaw Chen
Classwide Arbitration: A Method of Resolving the "Natural" Food Label Litigations, Angelina Dalia
Back Down to Bullying? The Detrimental Effects of Zero Tolerance Policies on Bullied Adolescents, Devon L. DiSiena
Shifting from 'Consent' to Advice: Reimagining the Role of the Senate in Foreign Affairs, Benjamin Dynkin
International Stalemate: The Need for a Structural Revamp of the U.N. Security Council, Jessica Elbaz
Thou Shall Not Adopt: Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Adoption Process, Peter Gallucci
Evaluating Opportunity in College Sports (Title IX), Brandon Kai Golden
Social Anxiety Disorder and the Americans With Disabilities Act's Impact on a Professional Athlete's Media Obligations, Matthew Gollub
Collective Bargaining in Rent Stabilized Buildings: How New York City's Rent Regulated Market Can Benefit from the Fundamentals of Labor Law, Stephanie Gorin
Utilizing ADR in Domestic Adoptions for Same-Sex Couples, Nicole Hertzberg
Unlock the Music: Replacing Compulsory Music Licenses with Free Market Negotiation, Karen (Kai-Wen) Hsieh
Housing Intersex Juvenile Offenders, Janae Hunte
Keeping Our Kids in School and Out of Court: Rooting Out School Suspension Hearings and a New Alternative, Rachel Klein
Taiwan's Path to Independence: Resolving the "One China" Dispute, Kristine Yeh Koopman
Adult Entertainment Film Contracts: To Enforce or Not To Enforce?, Elizabeth Lin
Race, Religion, and RFRA: The Implications of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. in Employment Discrimination, Hanna Martin
It Takes a Village: Using Seniors to Help Divorcing Families, Forrest S. Mosten and Lara Traum
Same-Sex Parenting Among a Patchwork of Laws: An Analysis of New York Same-Sex Parents’ Options for Gaining Legal Parental Status, Alexander Newman
Single Payer and the Rising Cost of Health Care, Brianna Paolicelli
Reducing Recidivism of Violent Offenders Through Victim-Offender Mediation: A Fresh Start, Laura Ravinsky
Parental Kidnapping: An Epidemic That is Escalating, Michael Samson
Religion's Power Over Reproductive Care: State Religious Freedom Restoration Laws and Abortion, Sophia Martin Schechner
Dude, Where's My Changing Table?: The Fight for Fathers' Rights Is in the Restroom, Steven J. Shafer
Introduction: New Models for Prosecutorial Accountability, Russell Shapiro
Gentrification: Yes ... My Community Is Improving, But for Who?, David B. Shepherd
Time to Pay College Athletes? Why the O'Bannon Decision Makes Pay-For-Play Ripe for Mediation, Andrew Steckler
"Boys Will Be Boys, and Girls Will Get Raped": How Public School Dress Codes Foster Modern Day Rape Culture, Stephan Wah
Submissions from 2015
Confining Control: Narrowing the "Control" Standard Under New York's Mental Hygiene Law Article 10, Michael Maizel
Essays in Response to Michael Waldman's The Second Amendment: A Biography: Introduction, Adam Riff
The Deceptive Promise of Vergara: Why Teacher Tenure Lawsuits Will Not Improve Student Achievement, Michele Aronson
Choice as Political Opinion: Women's Reproductive Healthcare as a Viable Ground for Asylum Protection, Andrew Christoffel
No Law and No Order: Local, State and Federal Government Responses to the United States Rape Kit Backlog Crisis, Glenne Ellen Fucci
Taking Care While Doing Right by the Fourth Amendment: A Pragmatic Approach to the Community Caretaker Exception, Mark Goreczny
The Eminent Domain Path Out of a Public Pension Crisis, Adam Riff
The Strictest Scrutiny: How the Hobby Lobby Court's Interpretation of the "Least Restrictive Means" Puts Federal Laws in Jeopardy, Talya Seidman
A Safe Harbor for Communicating or Trading on Material Nonpublic Information Obtained Through "Replicable" Methods or Strategies: Proposed SEC Rule 10b5-SH, Bernard Tsepelman
The Broken System of Parallel Patent Proceedings: How to Create a Unified, One-Judgment System, Christopher Ilardi
Corporate Rights and Individual Interests: The Corporate Right to Privacy as a Bulwark Against Warrantless Government Surveillance, Kayla Robinson
On the Permanence of Permanent Law: An Argument for the Continued Presence of the Permanent Law Provisions in the Farm Bill, Kate Giessel
Estelle v. Gamble in a Post-Affordable Care Act World, Hallie E. Mitnick
Adopting Upward Pricing Pressure Indices in FTC Merger Simulation Analysis: Tales from the US Airline Industry, Sean M. Riegert
The Domestic Asset Protection Trust and Its Federalism Implications, Alexander B. Shiffman
Adequacy of Notice Under CAFRA: Resolving Constitutional Due Process Challenges to Administrative Forfeitures, Rebecca Hausner
Bills, Bills, Bills: The Effect of a Rejected Settlement on Attorney's Fees Under the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award Act of 1976, Melissa Ibrahim
Constitutional Constraints on Asylum Termination by the United States Department of Homeland Security, Jonathan Raz
Verbal Speech Versus Visual Art: Evidence of Unequal First Amendment Protection in Right of Publicity Jurisprudence, Daniel Forman
Keeping the Gates Open for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Ren-How Harn
Intrastate Interventions: The State Executive's Response to Local Nonenforcement, Rebecca D. Maller
The Fall of Net Neutrality: The End of an Era and a Call for Reform, Nisha Ragha
The Implications of Exclusion: How Pregnancy Exclusions Deny Women Constitutional Rights, Hannah Schwager
Why Can't I Know How the Sausage Is Made?: How Ag-Gag Statutes Threaten Animal Welfare Groups and the First Amendment, Daniel L. Sternberg
