2004-05 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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2004-05 Senior Research Projects

Supervising Faculty	Student	Project Topic
Kenneth W. Abbott	Daron Horwitz	U.S. Trade Policy as Foreign Policy
Ronald Allen	Alexia Brunet	Guiding Jury Decisionmaking in Compensatory Damages Decisions
	Ethan Hastert	From Winship to Apprendi to Booker : Constitutional Command or Constitutional Blunder
	Amy Shavell	Further Reflections on the Guillotine
Cynthia Grant Bowman	Mariam Ahmed	Prostitution and Islamic Feminism
Robert P. Burns	Merkys Gomez	What the Courts Have Done in the Year Following Crawford v. Washington
Steven Calabresi	Drew Meyer	Judicial Masting: A Strategy for Judicial Appointments in Bush's Second Term
	Stephanie Zimdahl	The Supreme Court and Foreign Sources of law: Two Hundred Years of practice and the Juvenile Death Penalty Decision
Doug Cassel	Kristina Garza	Pornographic/Obscene/Hate Speech Regulation over the Internet and International Jurisdiction Conflicts
	Kimberly Vertolli-Kirk	What Impact does International Human Rights Law have on a Nation at Various Stages of Government?
David Dana	John Hayes	Environmental Policy Issues and Resource Management.
Shari Seidman Diamond	Betsy Judelson	High Profile Jurors: A framework for addressing concerns about the release of juror information in high profile cases
Bernardine Dohrn	Felicia Draper and Alison Shinsato	Restorative Justice in South Africa
	James Willams	The W. Haywood Burns Institute Provides an Intentional Data-drive n model to confront and reduce disproportionality of Youth of Color in Juvenile Justice Systems Local Jurisdictions Throughout the United States
Steve Drizin	Gregory Luloff	Are Juvenile Courts Wrongful Conviction Factories?
	Patrick McMullen	Questionable Tactics: The Constitutionality of Police Interrogations Methods of Juveniles
Clinton Francis	Chiawen Kiew	An Agency View of Property Rights
	Corey Mathers	Attribution - The Future of IP
Tom Geraghty	Sarah Hefling	Charting a Course for the Future: Prison Reform Initiatives
Lisa Huestis	Amy Hanf	The Revolving Definition of Due Process of Law
James Lindgren	Gaetan Gerville-Reache	Prior Restraint of Social Science Research: First Amendment Right to Conduct Human Research
Lawrence Lokken	Melinda Pignotti	Transfer Pricing and Intellectual Property
John McGinnis	Rebecca Kahan	Legal and Constitutitional History of the Bank of the United States
	Paul Tzur	The Rehnquist Court 's Docked Docket: A Preliminry Analysis
Barry McNamara	Dylan Hendricks	Injuctive Relief in the Context of Collusion and Trust Violations in Competitive Bidding
Janice Nadler	Jonathan Glick	Stacking the Deck: How Death Qualifying a Jury in Mississippi Reduces the Likelihood of a Fair and Impartial Jury of One's Peers
Stephen Presser	J. Doyle Horn	Do Good Intentions Pave the Pathway to Hell? A Look at the President's Faith Based Initative
	Zvi Rosen	The Seventeenth Amendment and the Rise of the Supreme Court
Claire Priest	Martin Sinclair	An Examination of Homestead Exemption Laws
Susan Provenzano	Jill Yung	Big Brother IS Watching: How Employee Monitoring in 2004 has brought Orwell's 1984 to Life and What the Law Should Do About It
Martin Redish	Uma Amuluru	The Rules Enabling Act
	Andrianna Kastanek	The Settlement Class, the Case-or-Controversy Requirement, and the Nature of the Adjudicatory Process
	Paul Katz	A Critique of Constitutional Minimalism
	Michelle Spak	Due Process Considerations for Class Actions
Victor Rosenblum	Michael Kennedy	Exploring the Speech & Debate Clause
Len Rubinowitz	Ismail Alsheik	Symposium article for impending publication in the Harvard Law Review regarding public housing issues and the 1964 Civil Rights Act
	Ismail Alsheik	Thurgood Marshall and Civil Rights Litigation: A Brief Retrospective
	Suzanne Besu	Women Teaching in Law
	Deanna Dennis	The Detrimental Legal and Social Remifications of Civil Settlements in Prosecuting Aquaintance Rape
	Tiffani Grimes	Rape Reform Legislation in Illinois
	Joe Harper	Women and Legal Education: Barriers Faced in the 1950s
	Hema Patel	Dawn Clark Netsch's Law Firm Practice
	Rachel Rosenthal	Should The Exclusionary Rule Be Applied in "One-Strike" Housing Cases?
	Ran Yan	As a woman law student in the 1950s
David Ruder	Hudson Hollister	Creation of World Wide Accounting Standards: Convergence and Independence
Carole Silver	Johana Gomez	Legal Outsourcing: Should We Panic Yet?
Rob Sitkoff	Lisa Chessare	Fiduciary Surcharge Law: Breach of Common Sense?
Jim Speta	Shannon Torgerson	Access Broadband over Power Line
Kim Yuracko	Ericka Schnitzer-Reese	The "Problem" of Opting Out: Women, Motherhood, and the Legal Field
	Claire Torchia	Examining the Work/Family Time Squeeze as a Sex Equality Issue