2012 Harvard Law School Student Writing Prize Winners

Addison Brown Prize

 

  • Joshua Boehm JD '12 for “The Prospects of an Investment Treaty Challenge to European Debt Restructurings after Abaclat v. Argentina
  • Eric Powell JD '12 for “Taming the Beast: How the International Legal Regime Creates and Contains Flags of Convenience”

Victor Brudney Prize in Corporate Governance

 

  • Yinzhi Miao LLM '12 for “Oversea Listing and State-Owned-Enterprise Governance in China: the Role of the State”
  • Alexander Zalivako LLM '12 for “Structuring Corporate Governance in Close Firms: Legal Problems and their Practical Solutions”

Davis Polk Legal Profession Paper Prize 

 

  • Dion Chu JD '12, Matthew Greenfield JD ’12 and Peter Zuckerman  JD '12 for “Judging the Justice Gap: An Analysis of the Flawed Interstate Allocation of Civil Legal Services Funding and a Proposed Remedy”

Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize

 

  • Grant Strother JD '12 for “Resolving Cultural Property Disputes in the Shadow of the Law”

Yong K. Kim '95 Memorial Prize 

 

  • Amanda Chong LLM '12 for “Migrant Brides in Singapore: Women Strategizing within Family, Market and the State”
  • Ryan Grimm JD '12 for “CSRC Administrative Penalty Decisions: Evaluating the Resources and Enforcement Output of China's Securities Regulator and the Role of Its Adjudication Work in Doctrinal Development”

Laylin Prize

 

  • Adam Chilton JD '13 for  “Do Laws Ameliorate the Horrors of War: An Empirical Analysis of Compliance with the Laws of War During Intrastate Conflicts”

LGBTQ Writing Prize 

 

  • Jason Lee  JD '13 for “Lost in Transition:  The Challenges of Remedying Transgender Employment Discrimination Under Title VII”

Mancini Prize

 

  • Lillian Langford JD '13 for “The Other Euro Crisis: Rights Violations Under the Common European Asylum System and the Unraveling of EU Solidarity”

Irving Oberman Memorial Award:
Bankruptcy Law

 

  • Ruth Sarah Lee JD '12 for “Recent Trends in Chapter 22 for Delaware and other Jurisdictions: Who is ‘Courting Failure’ Now?”
  • Peter Zuckerman JD '12 for “Together or Not: An Analysis of Substantive Consolidation in the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy”

Irving Oberman Memorial Award:
Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers and Federalism

 

  • Joshua Matz JD '12 for “The Public Debt Clause Crisis of 2011”

Irving Oberman Memorial Award:
Environmental Law

 

  • Jared Knicley JD '12 for “Debt, Nature, and Indigenous Rights: Twenty-five Years of Debt-for-Nature Evolution”

Irving Oberman Memorial Award:
Intellectual Property

 

  • Janet Freilich JD '12 for “The Paradox of Legal Equivalents and Scientific Equivalence”

Irving Oberman Memorial Award:
Law and Social Change

 

  • Evelyn Atkinson JD '12 for “Out of the Household: Master-Servant Relations and Employer Liability Law”

Irving Oberman Memorial Award:
Legal History

 

  • Daniel Purisch JD '12 for “ Going to War: Jewish Views and Their Reception into the Law of Nations”

John M. Olin Law and Economics Prize

 

  • Laurence Tai JD '13 for “Transparency and Media Scrutiny in the Regulatory Process”
  • Dina Waked SJD '13 for “Antitrust Laws in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis of the Reasons and Effects of Enforcement and Non-Enforcement”

Program on International Financial Systems Prize

 

  • Da Lin JD '13 for “Lessons for TARP from Abroad: A Survey of Recent Recapitalization Programs”
Project on the Foundations of Private Law 
  • Joseph Cooper '12 for "The Scottish Right of Access: Symmetry,  Reciprocal Causation and Compromise in the Context of an Atypical Rule 3 Property Rule"

Sydney I. Roberts Prize

 

  • Daniel Zuckerman JD '13 for “Respect for Substance: The Application of Realization Principles from Livestock, to Corporate Stock? Treatment of Hedging Transactions on Appreciated Securities”
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