2003-04 Projects

The senior research program at Northwestern Law is made possible through the generosity of the Owen L. Coon Foundation and other donors, who provide funds to cover expenses of empirical research projects. Below is a list of the most recent projects and faculty supervisors:

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2003-04 Senior Research Projects

Supervising Faculty	Student	Project Topic
Ronald Allen	Cooley, Craig	Reforming the Forensic Science Community: A Legal Perspective
Ronald Allen	Feinberg, Michael	The Shifting Boundaries Between State Actors and Private Citizens After 9-11
Ronald Allen	Ma, Pei-hsun	Chevron and Surveillance in Federal Anti-Terrorism Laws
Ronen Avraham	Lee, David Charles	Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Claims
Steven Calabresi	Cook, David	Sovereign Immunity: Constitutional Roots
Steven Calabresi	Perl, Michael	A Textualist Defense of Brown v. Board of Education
Greg Caldeira	Goodwin, Melissa	Dissenters on the Rehnquist Court; A Window Into Their Wellsprings
Doug Cassel	Doether, Antje	Research in the Field of Public International Law; Topic: "The Jurisprudence of International Courts Concerning Torture."
Cathryn Crawford	Cohn, Steven	The Use of Social and Socratic Research in Administering Juvenile Case
Bernardine Dohrn	Johnstone, Lisa	Flaws in the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Clinton Francis	Domer, Peter	Intellectual Property Protection for Genomic Medicine Discoveries
Mayer Freed	Dolph, Ada	Practical Application of the New Desert Palace v. Costa Mixed-Motive Standard
Tracey George	McGowen, Allison	Undertake Empirical Study of Modern First Amendment Litigation
Tom Geraghty	Bennett, Kathryn	Police and Prosecution Misconduct
Allan Horwich	VanLonkhuyzen, Courtney	An Analysis of the Statutory and Regulatory Safe Harbors for Forward Looking Statements under the Federal Securities Laws
Joyce Hughes	Washington, Jacinda	The Evolution of the Landless People of South Africa
Andrew Koppelman	Fischman, Harris	Compensating Public Employees That are Fired for Core Political Speech
James Lindgren	Holmes, W. Clifton	Super CCE' No More? The Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute's Life Imprisonment Provision: Endangered by Apprendi v. New Jersey
Vanessa Lucas	James, Melissa	Escaping the Maras: Children and the Criminal Bar to Asylum
Vanessa Lucas	Ortiz, Anita	Gender-Based Persecution Claims & Asylum: The Future of In Re Alvarado
Andrea Matwyshyn	Hill, Jennifer	Market and Regulatory Drivers and Solutions to Spam
John McGinnis	McCullough, Hugh	Review of the Early Attorney General's Legal Opinions: 1789-18XX
Tom Morsch	Jauchen, Daniel	Building a Business: Steps to Success
Tom Morsch	Ridgeway, John	GotGrub.com
Tom Morsch	Sinder, Robyn	Building a Business: Steps to Success
Tom Morsch	Zeoli, Anthony	GotGrub.com
Muchman	Roberts, Christopher	Developing An Alternative to Revised Model Rule 1.6: Application of a Rational Paradigm to the Issue of Attorney Disclosure of a Client's Confidential Information [Temp.]
Michael Pardo	Tepfer, Josh	Current State of the Right to Remain Silent
Stephen Presser	Ross, Ethan Kirk	The Original Intent of America's Territorial Law
Martin Redish	Pudelski, Christopher	Separation of Power and Klein v. United States
Martin Redish	Scherb, Matthew	Legislative Jurisdiction: The Bases, The Doctrine, The Political Limits on States
Len Rubinowitz	Adrian, Amanda	FHA Remedies to Post-Move Resistance & Discrimination
Len Rubinowitz	Caruso, Jeanne	Best Practices of Advocates of Integration
Len Rubinowitz	Christopher, Jason	Rhetorial Justifications + The Mixed Income Housing Model
Len Rubinowitz	Givens, Tyree	Integrated Schools = Integrated Neighborhoods?
Len Rubinowitz	Kim, Gail	Rhetorial Justifications: Excuses for Resistance Against Black Move In
Len Rubinowitz	McLendon, Corey	Housing Discrimination: A Chicago Case Study
Len Rubinowitz	Rief, Carrie	The Domestic Realm: The Woman's Role in Housing Integration
Len Rubinowitz	Rodney, Renai	Interviews of Past and Present African American residents of the Old Town in Chicago
Len Rubinowitz	Ross, Gary	A Study of White Flight & Resistance to African-American Neighbors
Len Rubinowitz	Sayyed, David	Public School Integration and Black Entry in Columbus, Ohio
Schwoch	Sun, Chuan	Impact of Multilingualization of Domain Name System (MDNS) on Internet Governance
Carole Silver	Chin, Alison	Are Corporate Governance Systems Converging?
Carole Silver	DeBruin, Nicole	Globalization and The U.S. Market in Legal Services
Carole Silver	GomezAbero, C.Sebastian	Convergence of Corporate Governance Standards
Slater	Holmes, W. Clifton	Courts' Treatment of Damages Assigned to Unestablished (or Nascent) Business Pursuant to Private Sherman Act Suits
Jim Speta	Conapinski, Leonard	Use of Declaratory Judgments by Potential Patent Infringers
Jim Speta	Peaches, Tiffani D.Smith	Constitutionality of the "Copyleft" Theory
Albert Yoon	Taylor, Emily	Falling Behind and Dropping Out: Comparisons between the Performance of Men and Women in law School and in Legal Practice
Kim Yuracko	Goodstine, Sarah	Topics in Title IX / Women's Athletics
Kim Yuracko	Schneider, Scott	Gender Noncomformity Paradigm in Sex Discrimination