2005-06 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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2005-06 Senior Research Projects

Supervising Faculty	Student	Project Topic
Adams, Lauren	Szrom, Daniel	Throw Away the Key: Juvenile Life Without Parole in Illinois
Allen, Ronald	Alexakis, Georgia	Utility versus Truth: The Dichotomy at Play in Mirjan Damaska's Works of Comparative Legal Scholarship
	Spies Roth, Susan	The Seventh Amendment Allows, the Commerce Clause Authorizes, and the Due Process Clause Demands Limits on Non-economic Compensatory Damages
Avraham, Ronen	Gryzenia, Lucinda	The Lost Future Earning Capacity Award: Informed by Doctrines of Uncertainty.
Bilz, Kenworthey	Zellner, Anne	The Impact of Status and Social Standing on One's Experience of Victimization.
Bowman, Cynthia	Carey-Davis, Elisabeth	JD Mama: Examining the Experiences of Mothers in Law School.
Brunet, Alexia	Torrens, Jonathan	Economic Effects of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
Cohn, Lynn	Sachar, Oren	Large Companies Cashing in on Mediation.
Dohrn, Bernardine	Buenaventura, Maria	Torture in the Living Room: A case study on whether media portrayals of torture on television widen or narrow the gap between torture law and practice.
	Jamison, TiShaunda	What's Race Got to Do With It?: Using the Fourteenth Amendment As a Guide to Racial Consideration in Public Adoptions.
	Nurse, Jenay	Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Comparison of Alternatives to Secure Confinement for Youth in Chicago and New York.
	Whitcup, Andrew
Eovaldi, Thomas	Spurgeon, Devon	Pension Crisis
Epstein, Lee	Gurdian, Julio	Extra! Extra! The Supreme Court has Read All About It! Why the Supreme Court Case Docket Has an Uncanny Resemblance to Your Newspaper.
Francis, Clinton	Barada, Taylor	Where Intellectual Property Finds the End of the Road: Creating, Capturing, and Protecting Value in Online Social Networks.
	Clifford, Michael	The Misunderstanding of Trademark Law as Applied to Internet Search Engines.
	Cromey, Andrew	Enabling Corporate Financial Transparency: Legal and Technological Issues.
	Qari, Amar	Analyzing Different Loan Documentation Practices in the Secured Lending Industry.
	Whang, Edward	Value Transference and the iPod.
	Yoon, William	Re-conceptualizing Creation and Value Capture in an Open World.
Freechack, John	Koh, Melissa	Cross-Border Bank Regulatory Issues.
Geraghty, Thomas	Ponce de Leon, Alejandro	Electronic Storytelling: The Litigator's Art in the Digital Age.
	Shaw, Katherine	Access to Justice in Africa and Beyond: Making the Rule of Law a Reality.
Heinz, John	Singh, Anand	Steroids, Alcohol, Marijuana: Impetus For Regulation and Criminization.
Hoskins, Richard	Devlin, Robert	Revised Vertical Merger Guidelines: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
Huestis, Lisa	Manley, Jessica	Appellate Courts and Oral Argument: An Analysis.
Jacobi, Tonja	Aderson, Benjamin	Inside the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Koppelman, Andrew	Huselid, Zachary	Nietzsche's Great Politics: A View of a Politics that Arises out of the Will to Power, the Eternal Return, and the Ubermensch.
Lupo, Jim	Tekeei, Negar	The Internet Factor: International Internet Defamation Jurisprudence and a Proposal for Reform.
	Zimmer, Vanessa	Judicial Responses to Terror: A New Romanticism.
Maloney, Sheila	Camozzi, Merlin	A Guide to Mediation for Non-Lawyers.
	Panahi, Shaheen	Civil Procedure in Lay Terms.
	Sachar, Tomer	Comprehensive Guide to US Small Claims Courts.
McGinnis, John	Feuer, Benjamin	Between the Founding and the Civil War: A Framework Continuum of Constitutional Theory, 1790-1860.
	Johnson, Marc	Government by the People or Government for the People?: Democratic Dialectics in American Constitutional Theory, 1868-1913.
	Mulaney, Charles	Congressional Factfinding and Judicial Review: An Argument for Independent Factfinding by the Court in Constitutional Cases.
Melbinger, Michael	Barker, Margaret	All Purpose 409A: Effective Housekeeping in Executive Compensation?
Morsch, Thomas	Bottorff, Brett	Structuring and Forming a Philanthropic Entertainment Company.
Presser, Stephen	Rouse, Steven	Termination of Parental Rights: Should Juris Decide.
Priest, Claire	Grewell, Justin	Contracting for Pollution: Copper Smelters, Farmers, and Common Law in the 1900s.
	Lupfer, Jennifer	The Science of Criminology: Continuity in Theory Despite Radically Changing Methodology.
Redish, Martin	Bilus, Alexander	Busting the Free Speech Monopoly.
	Larsen, Nathan	Class Actions and Due Process.
	Wilson, Kristina	Implications of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and the Constitutional Threat to Diversity Jurisdiction.
Roberts, Dorothy	Benno, Heather	The Impact of Egalitarian Ideals, Social Oppression and Customary Law on Policies Combatting Family Violence Against Palestinian Women in Israel: Exploring Inclusive Solutions.
Roberts, Jerome	Koutoulas, James	A case study of internal intellectual property.
Rose, Gary Paul	Patterson, James Terence	The Essential Small Business Guide to Going Public.
Rubinowitz, Leonard	Anderson, Margit	Changing the Rules: New Standards of Resident Accountability in Public Housing.
	Funes, Jason	Analyzing the Hope VI Program under Macroeconomic, Microeconomic, and Legal Paradigms
	Martin, Cary	The Origins of Cabrini Green
Sag, Matthew	Rohde, Kurt	A Differential Impact Analysis of Patent Reform
Scheffer, David	Karas, Kate	Unveiling a False Dichotomy: The Necessity of and Potential for Cohesion Between Islamism and Secularism in Modern Turkey
Smith, Stephen	Heurtematte, Elizabeth	Memorandum for Claimant and Respondent 13th Annual VIS competition
	Scopel, Sarah	Claimant and Respondent Memoranda for the 13th Annual Willhelm VIS Moot Arbitration
Speta, James	Gray, Justin	A Bulldozer in the Junkyard of Claim Construction: The Aftermath of the Federal Circuit's/Phillips/Decision
	Naqi, Hussain	Fantasy Baseball, Slingbox and Google Book Search: What these three businesses can teach us about copyright control in the digital age
	Olshan, Eric	Int'l Telecommunications Issues
Tenenbaum, Sam	Roth, Nicole	Establishing an Animal Legal Protection Clinic
	Sanderson, Kathleen	Establishing an Animal Legal Protection Clinic
	Wallis, Annie	Establishing an Animal Legal Protection Clinic
Yuracko, Kimberly	Cade, Shannon	Smith v. Jackson, Mississippi and the Future of the ADEA
	Phillips, Jessica	Disparate Impact Under the ADEA