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
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
Deregulating the Inadequate Basel Accords: Future-Proofing Financial Regulations in an Age of Global Crises, Ivan Chaykovskiy
The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: Power Players in International and Domestic Natural Disaster Law, Kristen Dale
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
Where Sovereign Immunity Ends and Liability Begins: A Functional Restructuring of the United States Military Tort Compensation Scheme, Jordon Parker
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
What's Islam Got to Do with it? Obstacles in Securing Fair Trial Rights Under Iran's Repressive Regime, Sara Barlowe
A World Class Solution: How Implementing Class Action Lawsuits in Spain Could Help Remedy the Spanish Housing Crisis, David Flanzer
Crimea and the Right to Self-Determination: Questioning the Legality of Crimea's Secession from Ukraine, Alisa Gdalina
High Time For Change: How Legalizing Marijuana Could Help Narrow the Racial Divide in the United States, Gene Taras
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
Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Inconsistencies in International Cultural Property Repatriation, Samantha Anderson
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
Firmly Grasping the Knife: An Investigation of the Asymmetric Application of Chinese Antitrust Law as a Protectionist Tool, Jillian Bray
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
Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.: Economics of Design Patent Trolling, Timothy Coughlin
Classwide Arbitration: A Method of Resolving the "Natural" Food Label Litigations, Angelina Dalia
Katherine Heigl v. Duane Reade: The Predicted Outcome and Insight into New York Publicity Rights, Amy Delauter
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
Content Creators, Virtual Goods: Who Owns Virtual Property?, Kenneth W. Eng
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
Scratching the Seven-Year Itch: A Call to Reform California Labor Code Section 2855(B), Alyssa Kaplun
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
CACHE-22: The Fine Line Between Information and Defamation in Google's Autocomplete Function, Kacy Popyer
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
Animal Farm: The E.U.'s Move Towards Progress and the U.S.'s Slide Towards Dystopia in Farm Animal Welfare, Dorothy Sluszka
Time to Pay College Athletes? Why the O'Bannon Decision Makes Pay-For-Play Ripe for Mediation, Andrew Steckler
Oh The Drone-abilities!: Hollywood's Drone Pursuit Heats Up and the FAA Can't Stop It, Matthew J. Strong
Prosecuting the CIA: Does the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Allow for Liability?, Sam Taterka
"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 Canadian Trademark Regime: Amendments to the Trade-Marks Act and the Threat to Canada and the United States, Stephane Abitbol
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
A Major Smuggle Struggle: It's Time for Major League Baseball to Step Up to the Plate and Alleviate Its Cuban Smuggling Problem, Anna Kaminsky
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
