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 2016
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
Crowdfunding Human Capital Contracts, Max Vogel
Hijacking Justice: Assessing the Emergency Driven Analysis of Confrontation Clause Jurisprudence, Steven C. Berlowitz
The Case for Prosecuting Arms Traffickers in the International Criminal Court, Leigh Rome
Can You Work It? Or Flip It and Reverse It?: Protecting LGBT Youth from Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Sanam Assil
"Pay-For-Delay" Settlements Post-ACTAVIS: Why Mediation Can Tackle the "Unreasonable" Antitrust Settlements, Sheena Ching
Welcome to the Jungle, Where the Rent is Too Damn High: Using Rent Regulation in New York City to Maintain an Affordable Housing Stock, Gabrielle DeNaro
Sleeping? Comatose? Only Mandatory Consideration of Mediation Can Awake Sleeping Beauty in the European Union, Giuseppe De Palo and Romina Canessa
Safe and Sound: How ADR Can Protect Aquatic Life and National Security, James Diskint
Religious Freedom: Why States Are Unconstitutionally Burdening Their Own Citizens as They “Lower” the Burden, Jason Goldman
Coddling the Internet: How the CDA Exacerbates the Proliferation of Revenge Porn and Prevents a Meaningful Remedy for its Victims, Layla Goldnick
Equity in Substantial Evidence, or Using Article 78 Judicial Review to Achieve Justice for Public Housing Occupants, Janelle Greene
Bound by Law: A Roadmap for the Practical Legalization of BDSM, Daniel Haley
The Compensation Conundrum in Partial Takings Cases and the Consequences of Borough of Harvey Cedars, Brittany Harrison
Repatriation of Korean Cultural Property Looted by Japan-Can a Sincere Apology Resolve the Centuries-Old Korea/Japan Disputes?, Melissa (YoungJae) Koo
Where Do We Fight?: A Way to Resolve the Conflict Between a Forum Selection Clause and FINRA Arbitration Rule 12200, Suleman Malik
Copyright Alert System: Six-Strikes and Forced Arbitration Might Not be the Answer, Brett Schiff
Breaking the Impasse: A Two-Pronged Approach for Resolving Sovereign Debt Holdout Disputes, Alexander Shapos
To Pee or Not to Pee? "Where" is the Question: Transgender Students and the Right to Use Public School Restrooms, Melissa Sterling
The Bomb Keeps the Lights On: The Use of Final-Offer Arbitration in Failed Retransmission Consent Negotiations, Daniel J. Weiss
Introduction: Data Breaches: Moving Forward, Practically, Cindy E. Zuniga
Submissions from 2014
Should Class Be Dismissed? The Advantages of a One-Step Class Certification Process in Unpaid Intern FLSA Lawsuits, Julia Morpurgo
Foul Play: Tennessee's Unequal Application of Its Jock Tax Against Professional Athletes, Kirk Berger
Prosecuting a Festival: Holding Electric Dance Music Festivals Liable for Drug-Related Deaths Occurring Therein, Rebecca Lomazow
Eminent Domain Law and "Just" Compensation for Diminution of Access, Ashley Mas
Reasonable Consideration of Non-Shareholders: Redrafting State Constituency Statutes to Encourage Socially-Minded Business Decisions, Maxwell Silver-Thompson
Non-Dischargeability of Mixed Student Debt, Jordan Weiss
Employer Perceptions of Trans Women's Sex and Behavior in Title VII Sex Stereotyping Claims: The Case for Reading Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins as a Blanket Prohibition of Gender Policing by Employers, Alexandra Fiona McSpedon
Striking a Pose: Protecting the Welfare of Child Models, Kelli Ortega
Cultural Pluralism in Criminal Defense: An Inner Conflict of the Liberal Paradigm, Sam Beyea
Mandatory Life Without Parole Sentences for the Intellectually Disabled: A Violation of the Eighth Amendment, Nick Bonham
I Thought He Had a Gun: Amending New York's Justification Statute to Prevent Police Officers from Mistakenly Shooting Unarmed Black Men, Toussaint Cummings
Unauthorized Practice of Law and Meaningful Access to the Courts: Is Law Too Important to Be Left to Lawyers?, Matthew Longobardi
