2006-07 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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2006-07 Senior Research Projects

Supervising Faculty	Student	Project Topic
Rose, Paul	Afshar, Cyrus	Factors Influencing Capital Market Competitiveness: A Survey of Recent Proposals.
Speta, James	Alemi, Farnaz	An Avatar’s Day in Court: A Legal System for Obtaining Relief and Resolving Disputes in Virtual World Games
Rubinowitz, Leonard	Appel, Brian	Cooperation and Tension Among Civil Rights Organizations in the Chicago Freedom Movement
Roberts, Dorothy	Arrindell, Haile	Are Product Placements Commercial Speech?: Consumer, Advertiser & Marketer and the Entertainment Industry Perspectives on Product Placements.
Dana, David	Baldwin, Tim	You Say You Want a Velorution? Challenging Technical Decision Making in Road Design
Speta, James	Barnes, Morey Elizabeth	A Problem in Search of Special Treatment, or a Solution in Search of a Problem? The Debate Over Net Neutrality.
Redish, Martin	Berlow, Clifford	The Class Action as Political Theory
Lane, Marc	Botee, Hozefa	A Business Plan for: Nurse I/O, LLC
Presser, Stephen	Bradley, Rebecca	"No Soul to be Damned, and No Body to be Kicked": An Exposé on Corporate Criminal Liability: Development, Wisdom, and Proposed Alternatives in Light of the Enron/Arthur Andersen Accounting Scandal
Tenenbaum, Jack	Cahill, Frances
Copeland, Charlton	Carter, Keonna	Putting Scalia’s Test to the Test: An Analysis of Scalia’s Alternative to Congruence and Proportionality
Maloney, Sheila	Chusyd, Susan	The Affects of Priming in Law and on Negotiations
McChesney, Fred	Clements, Pamela	The Hatch-Waxman Act and the Conflict Between Antitrust Law & Patent Law
Dana, David	Danielson, Paul	Incentives for Green Development.
Schanzenbach, Max	Droske, Timothy	Correcting Native American Sentencing Disparity Post-Booker
Schanzenbach, Max	Dunlop, Jeffrey	Inventory Financing Under Revised Article 9: An Economic Analysis of Secured Lending in Just-in-Time Manufacturing Systems
Francis, Clinton	Ehrich, Thomas	The Revolution will be User-Edited: Spurring Innovation in Drug Development through the Adaptation of Internet-Based forms of Information Governance
McChesney, Fred	Eide, Jonathan	Antitrust Implications of Physician's Multiprovider Network Joint Ventures
Cameron, David	Farrahi, Leila	Int'l Taxation of Hybrid Entities.
Diamond, Shari	Ferch, Ryan	1) Does the Opportunity to Submit Questions During Trial Affect Juror Comprehension? 2) Help the Jury: An argument for sending summary demonstrative evidence to the jury room during deliberations
Watts, Kathryn	Ford, Matthew	Adequacy and the Public Rights Model of the Class Action after Gratz v. Bollinger
Rubinowitz, Leonard	Gladney, Erin	Martin Luther King Jr, Chicago Freedom Movement.
Reed, Stephen	Grogan, Christopher	Business Plan, Legal Research, and Organizational Documents for a Link Microfinance, Inc. Company.
Pfander, James	Harper, Brooke	State Role in Compensating Constitutional Torts Committed by Federal Officers: Beyond Bivens.
Cameron, David	Haug, Jonathan	Transfer Pricing at Work in a Territorial Tax System: An Introduction to French Transfer Pricing and A Comparison to US Transfer Pricing
McNamara, Barry	Henze, Katherine	Whether Congress has the power to apply the ADA to state prisons generally? Or to what extent Congress can apply the ADA to state prisions after the court ruling in US v Georgia.
Roberts, Dorothy	Hughes, Amy	Compensating Caregiving to Fight Racist and Sexist Stereotypes in the United States
Tiller, Emerson	Kappakas, Beth	Little Likelihood of Political Influence: The relationship between political ideology and trademark infringement free speech defenses and confusion tests.
Eovaldi, Thomas	Khanna, Anuj	Distressed Investing – Reaching New Heights
Heard, Roderic	Kim, Jae En	Memorandum for Respondent - 14th Annual Willemc Vis Int'l Commercial Arbitration Moot.
Reed, Stephen	Kumpuris, Frank	Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners: Explaining the Issues and the Challenges
Tiller, Emerson	Lev, Daniel	Positive Political Theory of Judging Domain Name Trademark Disputes
Sharpe, Nicola	Luder, David	No Agreement In Writing: American Equitable Non-Signatory Theories Based On Policy Instead Of Consent Violate The New York Convention
Francis, Clinton	Lundgren, Timothy	The Balancing Act: A Legislative Solution to Lowering Prices While Preserving Innovation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Rubinowitz, Leonard	Meltzer, Matthew	Breaking Down the Language Barrier: A Study of the English-Speaking Legal Aid Attorney’s Representation of the Spanish-Speaking Client.
McChesney, Fred	Miller, Andrew	Salary Arbitration in Baseball: An Analysis of Key Historical, Legal and Statistical Factors
Dohrn, Bernardine	Mino, Damon	Legalization of Torture: The Culpability of US Officials in the Commission of War Crimes
Rubinowitz, Leonard	Morales-Doyle, Sean	Unexpected Delay: a legislative history of the Fair Housing Act of 1968
Redish, Martin	Murashko, Dennis	The Rules Enabling Act and the Procedural-Substantive Tension: A Lesson in the Theory of Statutory Interpretation
Dohrn, Bernardine	Olenick, Steven	Is Starting a Sports Representation Arm/Practice in a Large Law Firm a Good Business Proposition?
Lutz, Karl	Oler, Abraham	Analyzing Private Equity Fund Economic Terms: What Needs to be Understood about the Impact of Key Contractual Provisions
Presser, Stephen	Pattakos, Peter	Randy Barnett and the Path of the Law: Constitutional Legitimacy, Rejecting "Law as Science, " and Coming to Terms with "Law and Science"
Speta, James	Rabkin, Michael	Manufacturing Tactical Interdependence Between Competitors Through Joint Ventures: Institutionalizing Trust and Minimizing Competition Among Corporations in the Age of “Co-opetition”
Watts, Kathryn	Rontal, David	Dissents from Denial of Certiorari: Pure Dicta or Powerful Tool?
Jacobi, Tonja	Sharp, A.J.	Can States Regulate Anything? The Supreme Court Tips the Federalism Scale All the Way
Rubinowitz, Leonard	Shelton, Kathryn	The Dream Never Died: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., the City of Chicago, and the Fight for Fair Housing
Francis, Clinton	Sinclair, James	The Balancing Act: A Legislative Solution to Lowering Prices While Preserving Innovation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Rubinowitz, Leonard	Solow, David	Civil Rights Movements and Federal Legislation: How the Chicago Freedom Movement Effected - and Failed to Effect - Federal Fair Housing Legislation and 1966 and 1968
Redish, Martin	Spottswood, Mark	Falsity, Insincerity and the Freedom of Expression
Maloney, Sheila	Srivastava, Ritu	The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission & Universal Agreements To Mediate
Lindgren, James	Staley, Jonathan	Challenging an Old Assumption: The Causal Connection Between Home Ownership and Crime
Lupo, Jim	Thelen, Benjamin	Victimizations and Gay Rights.
Rubinowitz, Leonard	Tiffith, Lartease	Challenging School Segregation in the North
McGinnis, John	Van Loo, Jonathan	"A New Interpretation of Libertarian, Progressive and Pluralist Constitutional Theory During the Lochner Era"
Rose, Paul	Vass, Lori	Scheme Liability for Secondary Parties under 10b-5: Resolving Stoneridge in Favor of Investors
Payne, Sue	Vosmek, Alice	SCRIPTED REALITY: REALITY SHOW “WRITERS” AND THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA
Francis, Clinton	Ward, Lisa	The Balancing Act: A Legislative Solution to Lowering Prices While Preserving Innovation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Geraghty, Thomas	White, Christina	An Examination of the Practice of Trokosi in Ghana
Tiller, Emerson	Wildern, Danielle	Private Securities Litigation: Positive Political Theory, Judicial Decision-Making, and the Scienter Standard
Priest, Claire	Zeratsky, Elizabeth	To the Left of Natural Rights: The Impact of International Socialism on Woman's Suffrage and the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment