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
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
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
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
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
Did Vimeo Kill the Radio Star? DMCA Safe Harbors, Pre-1972 Sound Recordings & the Future of Digital Music, Tatsuya Adachi
Bitcoin Transactions: A Bit of Financial Privacy, Sumit Agarwal
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
Making the Cut: The State of Public School Athletics for Disabled Students, Olivia Clement
Patent System Manipulation: Hedge Funds Abusing IPR, Poor Patent Quality & Pharmaceutical Monopolies, Kenneth J. Costa
