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 2018
Framed by Forensics: Fulfilling Daubert's Gatekeeping Function by Segregating Science from the Adversarial Model, Kayla Marie Mannucci
Take Me Out of the Ballgame, Take Me Out to the Free Market: An Analysis of Midterm Contract Renegotiation in Major League Baseball, Aaron Bretter
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
Football in London? An Antitrust Examination of the National Football League’s International Expansion Efforts, Michael Scott
Vacating Criminal Convictions for Victims of Human Trafficking: Weighing Opportunities for Expansion with a State Interest in Finality, Lori Waichman
"Too Big to FOIA": How Agencies Avoid Compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, Stephanie Alvarez-Jones
Musical Innovation's Sworn Enemy: The Infringer, Stuart Anello
Reaching for the Stars: A Proposal to the FTC to Help Deter Astroturfing and Fake Reviews, Matthew Barish
Preserving Film Preservation From The Right of Publicity, Christopher Buccafusco, Jared Vasconcellos Grubow, and Ian J. Postman
Not Forgetting Just Obscuring: American and European Attempts to Maintain Privacy in the Digital Age, John Corrado
The Search for Third Options in a Two-Bathroom Society, Sharon R. Cruz
The Trope of Parity, Michael Del Priore
The Violence Against Women Act, Implicit Bias, and Judicial Training, Lorena Espino-Piepp
Municipal Wi-Fi and the Third-Party Doctrine: Rethinking an Antiquated Framework, David Forrest
Utilizing ADR Between Automakers, the European Union, and the United Kingdom to Avoid Automobile Tariff Increases Arising from Brexit, Nicholas Gliagias
Utilizing ADR as a Vehicle for Effective Communication and Success of Payment in Urgent Care, Stephanie R. Goldberg
Music Videos: The Gray Area in First Amendment Protected Speech And The Resulting Trademark Consequences, Lindsey Gold
Resolving Self-Driving Car Patent Conflicts: Arbitration in Waymo v. Uber and Future Autonomous Vehicle Patent Disputes, Ilya Gorelik
Resolving the Circuit Split Over Consent Based Searches in Shared Living Spaces, Christopher Grimaldi
The Impact of Parental Narcissistic Personality Disorder on Children and Why Legal Intervention is Warranted, Samantha Jacobson
Access to Justice: Accelerating the Abandonment of FGM/C, Gretchen Kail
In the Privacy of One's Own Home: Does New York State Law Prevent Invasions of Privacy in the Home?, Madeline Kessler
Faith-Based Mediation in the Pakistan-India Conflict, Sarah Khan
The Unexpected Scope of the CFAA: And How Netflix Users Could Be Committing a Federal Crime, Michael Levy
The Journalism Licensing Program: A Solution to Combat the Selective Exposure Theory in our Contemporary Media Landscape, Matthew LoBello
Fair Use & Fair Play: Olympic Marketing in the Information Age, Alex Locke
Why the Bridgeport Rule for Infringement of Sound Recordings is No Longer 'Vogue', Jessica Mauceri
Incentivizing Cybersecurity Compliance in the New Digital Age: Prevalence of Security Breaches Should Prompt Action by Congress and the Supreme Court, Cristiana Modesti
All-American Discrimination: North Carolina and Transgender Student-Athletes, Jessica Rosen
Proposing a Federal Post-Natural Disaster Mediation Program, Michelle Shaykevich
Ride Oversharing: Privacy Regulation within the Gig Economy, Casey Thomas
Creating a More Permissive Patentability Standard under Language from the TPP, Ryan Thorne
How Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clauses Chill Whistleblowing and End-Run Dodd-Frank Whistleblowing Protections, Noah Weingarten
Lessons from the South China Sea Ruling: Med-Arb as the Recommended Dispute Resolution Method for Asia's Maritime Disputes Under UNCLOS, Julia Y. Yang
Submissions from 2017
Beyond Gifting: Harmonizing the Devolution of Reorganization Plan Gifts and the Evolution of Sale Gifts, Reuben E. Dizengoff
Successor Liability in the Bankruptcy Context: The Problem or the Solution?, Chelsea Donenfeld
Copyrighting the Quotidian: An Analysis of Copyright Law for Postmodern Choreographers, Jessica Goudreault
No Parents Allowed: The Problem with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Javeria Ahmed
The War on Rape? The Implications of Setting Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Rape and Sexual Assault Convictions, Daniel Belcher
Frauds & Flakes: An Insight into the World of Doping in American Professional Sports and What Congress Can Do to Fix It, Ruth Buchbinder
The Search for Third Options in a Two-Bathroom Society, Sharon R. Cruz
Tribal Sovereignty and Gaming: A Proposal to Amend the National Labor Relations Act, Regina Gerhardt
A Legal Approach to Combating Terrorist Organization Funding through the Counterfeit Market, Amanda Kusnierz
How a Class Action Plaintiff's Request for Attorney's Fees Can Prevent Mootness Despite a Defendant's Tender of Damages, Lyuba Shamailova
Guantanamo Bay - Why Would the United States Ever Actually Prosecute?, Benjamin Wine
Prohibiting Child- Parent Visitation After Parental Rights Are Terminated by Trial in New York: A Denial of Parental Due Process, Rachel Turetsky
Fighting the Troll Toll: The Case for Judicial Review of the U.S.P.T.O. Director's Denial of a Petition to Institute an Inter Partes Review, Renoj Zachariah
Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking: Creating Better Residency Visas, Efthimia Barbagiannis
Prosecuting Islamic State Members for Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Committed Against Yazidi Women and Girls, Samantha Hechler
Why Cuba's Global Tourism Allure Has Failed to Attract American Property Speculators, Adir Paner
Pre-Embryo Custody Battles: How Predisposition Contracts Could Be the Winning Solution, Ashley Alenick
From Pay-for-Delay to Product Hopping: The Limited Utility of Antitrust Law in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Joseph Fielding
When an Educational Process Becomes a Kangaroo Court: University Judicial Proceedings in Cases of Sexual Assault, Rachel Azarow
Equity Crowdfunding - The JOBS Act (Almost) to the Rescue, Zachary Ballas
Could Foreign Judicial Climate Action Victories Influence American Legal Perspectives?, Marc Z. Goldgrub
Religion in the Time of Measles: Prescriptions for Minimizing the Public Health Threats Associated with Religious Exemptions from Mandatory Vaccinations, Victor Diego Gonzalez
The "CSI Effect": TV Crime Dramas' Impact on Justice, Michael Johnson
Virtual Whats?: Defining Virtual Currencies in the Face of Conflicting Regulatory Guidances, Stephanie A. Lemchuk
Judicial Dissolution Under New York's Limited Liability Company Law: Should Breaking Up Be this Hard to Do?, Roxanne Makoff
What's the [Irreparable] Harm?: Incentivizing Creativity Through Preliminary Injunctions in Copyright Law, Arielle Matza
The True Price for Your Fake Gucci Bag is a Life: Why Eliminating Unsafe Labor Practices is the Right Answer to the FashionCounterfeit Problem, Angela Terese Timpone
The Constitutionality of SEC Administrative Proceedings: The SEC Should Cure Its ALJ Appointment Scheme, Kaela Dahan
Responsibly Irresponsible?: An Analysis of the Medically Noncompliant Offender’s Federal Insanity Defense, Geoffrey Andreu
Introduction: Immigration Crackdown: Examining the Impact of “Enforcement First” Immigration Policies, Kristina Aragon
Activist Investors and Mediation, Juliana Bleiberg
Rwanda and the Kigali International Arbitration Centre: The Future Faces of East African Arbitration and Growth, Jeremy Cantor
Why Wait So Long: The Cornelius Gurlitt Collection and the Need for Clear ADR Mechanisms in the Restitution of Looted Art, Samantha Elie
Suspended Sentence Contingent Upon Participation in Victim Offender Mediation for Juveniles Who Commit Violent Crimes, Lindsay Goldbrum
One Country, Two Systems: Hong Kong's Unique Status and the Development and Growth of Arbitration in China, Jiali (Keli) Huang
Combating Counterfeits: Using U.S. Law to Analyze the Potential Application of China's Amended Trademark Law to Online Marketplaces, Kerrijane John
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
Fixing Soccer: Changing FIFA's Corporate Governance Structure in Response to the Current FIFA Corruption Scandal, Alexander Mandel
Transforming Business Through Proactive Dispute Management, Deborah Masucci and Shravanthi Suresh
Utilizing Alternative Dispute Resolution to Foster Comprehensive Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Michael Meyers
Product Hopping: Antitrust Liability and a Per Se Rule, Justine Amy Park
Enhanced Preservation: Modifying the Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act to Better Protect Syrian Antiquities, Anthony Prinzivalli
Will Blog for Food: Sponsored Content in the Age of Millennials, Elina Rakhlin
Holocaust-Era Art Restitution Claims: Is the HEAR Act a Game Changer?, Rachel Sklar
Abilify, Brintellix, Champix: The ABCs of FDA Proprietary Name Disputes, M. Dinora Smith
The Authenticity Debacle: Why Art Authentication and Litigation Don't Mix, Andrea Sobolewski
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
