2010-11 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:
2011-12 | 2010-11 | 2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08
2010-11 Senior Research Projects
| Supervising Faculty | Student | Project Topic |
| Allen, Ronald J | Swartout, Christopher | Complexity and the Nature of Rules |
| Babcock, Sandra L | Noble, Liane Pheakdey Ngin | Immigration Detention & Human Rights in the Lone Star State |
| Barron, Esther S | Adams, Patricia | Crimes of Fashion? An Analysis of the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act |
| Bennett, Robert William | Angermeier, Vincent | Dead Hand Control and Democracy: A Theoretical Framework for Disenfranchising the Dead |
| Biehl, Julie L | Bychowski, Stephen | Getting Out and Staying Out: Improving Juvenile Incarceration and Parole in Illinois |
| Biehl, Julie L | Gillum, Bria | An Analysis of the Illinois-School Based Diversion Program |
| Bienen, Leigh B | Hanson, Christopher | Out of the Shadows, Into the Courts: The Impact of Procedural and Legislative Same-Sex Rape Reforms |
| Black, Bernard Steven | Avidor, Jonathan | Building an Innovation Economy: Public Policy Lessons from Israel |
| Brennan, Thomas J | Baca, Laura | Deconstructing Obesity: Managing Incentives and Changing Outcomes |
| Brennan, Thomas J | Brogaard, Jonathan Allen | Integrating Taxes and Business Planning into Legal Studies |
| Brennan, Thomas J | Mendelsohn, Seth | Avoiding the Next Financial Crisis |
| Calabresi, Steven G | Bates, Allison | The Republican Dilemma: The Guarantee Clause, Self-Government, and the Popular Initiative |
| Calabresi, Steven G | Vickery, Sofia | On Liberty and the Fourteenth Amendment: State Constitutional Case Law Interpreting Lockean Provisos Before 1868 |
| Cohn, Lynn | Hayes, Katherine | Negotiating When You've Bet the Company: Plea Bargains with the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division Criminal Program Through a Negotiations Lens |
| Dana, David A | Gau, Joanna | Mandatory Insurance: A Proposed Solution to Address Ambiguities in Comprehensive General Liability Coverage for Environmenal Damages |
| Dana, David A | Mehta, Anjna | Bring Back the Tap: Strategies to Decrease Bottled Water Consumption |
| Dana, David A | Solow, Ryan | California Water Management Challenges and Solutions: An Argument for the Simplification of Resource Ownership and Efficient Market Pricing |
| DiCola, Peter Charles | Covington, Nakeena | Brazilian Cultural Trade: the Economic Possibilities of Brazilian Cultural Industries |
| DiCola, Peter Charles | O'Neill, Elisabeth | TRIPS-Plus-Plus? The Controversy and Secrecy behind the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement's Changed International IP Regime |
| DiCola, Peter Charles | Van Der Laan, David | Arnstein Shrugged: The Dual Nature of Musical Copyright, the Unexpected Complexity of Popular Music, and the Need for Expert Guidance when Applying the Lay Listener Test |
| Dohrn, Bernardine | Kate, Ethan | Parents Behaving Badley: Whether, In The Wake of Miller-Jenkins, Public Policy Considerations Should Play a Role in Custody Decisions |
| Elson, John S | Wang, Hua | Creating Change at Chicago Public Schools for Chinese English Language Learners |
| Francis, Clinton William | Flanigan, Michael | Patents R Us: A Beginner's Guide to Prosecuting Patents |
| Francis, Clinton William | Lafkas, John | Loosening "Firm Boundaries:" The Implications of Organizational and Strategic Management Research for Antitrust Law |
| Francis, Clinton William | McNamara, Christopher | Open Source Business Models |
| Francis, Clinton William | Newell, Omar Anthony | Considerations for Developing a Successful Innovation Ecosystem to Facilitate Economic Development in Jamaica |
| Francis, Clinton William | Sommer, Amber | Breaking Barriers to Build Companies: Arab Israeli Participation in Israel's High Tech Entrepreneurship Sector |
| Gandert, Daniel | Cobos, Evelyn | Piracy Not "Forever": Bridging the Fashion Design Protection Gap in Intellectual Property for Small Designers |
| Gandert, Daniel | Kim, Esther | The NFL's Headache: Issues with California Workers' Compensation for Continuous Head Traumas in Former Professional Football Players |
| Gettleman, Robert W | Seymore, Emily | Sizing Up the ADAAA: A Bright Line Rule for Handling Obesity Claims Under the ADA |
| Horwich, Allan | Handler, Michael | The Origins, Applications, Limitations, and Future of the SEC's Anti-Indemnification Policy |
| Horwich, Allan | McGirr, Daniel | Premature, Uncertain, and Far from Perfect: An Analysis of the Impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on the Investment Banking Industry |
| Kim, Young | Goco, Jonell | An Economic Analysis of the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Mechanism |
| Kontorovich, Eugene | Perkel, David | A Review of Ex Ante Solutions to Aguna Problems in 21st Century America |
| Koppelman, Andrew M | Berry, Matthew | |
| Koppelman, Andrew M | Kosbie, Jeffrey | Men Don't Wear Dresses: Freedom of Speech and State Suppression of Gender Nonconformity |
| Landeo, Claudia M | Dotson, Layla | Mergers, Efficiency, and Market Power in the Legal Services Industry |
| Lee, Andrea | Zhang, Helen | Software Patentability in the Information Age: A Post Bilski v. Kappos Investigation with A New Solution |
| Lupo, James | Farkas, Fruma | Why Are Women Obligated in Some Commandments and Exempt From Others?: The Prop Theory |
| Lupo, James | Fleming, Abigail | Of Deluge and Desolation: Metaphor and Cliché in Persuasive Authority and Judicial Decision-Making |
| Lupo, James | Zouhary, Kathleen | LAYERED INTIMACIES: An empirical view of the language that inspired the Supreme Court's shift in Lawrence v. Texas |
| Lutz, Karl E | Ganz, Jesse | Towelabunga!: Acquisition Strategy and Deal Documentation for the Stock Purchase of a Closely-Held Private Company |
| Lutz, Karl E | Wang, Chenye | The Case against Fiduciary Duties of Controlling Shareholders In Delaware |
| Mahadev, Shobha L | Salerno, Matthew | |
| Maloney, Sheila M | Srinivasan, Tanushree | An Analysis of the Negotiations Relationship Between Neighbors India and Pakistan |
| McGinnis, John O | Caster, Brian | So Unconstitutional: Thayer's Clear Mistake as Original Methods Originalism |
| McGinnis, John O | Lipschitz, Warren | Schumpeterian Industries and Antitrust |
| McGinnis, John O | Mangas, Russell | Educating the Market for Legal Services |
| Nadler, Janice | Baca, Laura | Test Scores and Civics: Charter Schools and the Conflicting Goals of Public K-12 Education |
| Nzelibe, Jide Okechuku | Cooper, Rishard | Small Island State and the Need for a Remedial Framework to Address the Effects of Climate Change |
| Nzelibe, Jide Okechuku | Kaplan, Alisa Yonat | We, too: Global Rights Norms and Conflict Duration in Strengthening Civil Liberties Under Threat |
| Pfander, James E | Nightingale Dawson, Elana | Worse than the Disease: The Anti-Corruption Principle, Free Expression, and the Democratic Process |
| Presser, Stephen B | Deisinger, Valerie Ann | Quakers, Mormons, and the Cheyenne: Historical Extrajudicial Dispute Resolution in the United States and the Press for Assimilation |
| Presser, Stephen B | McGirr, Daniel | A Bridge too Far?: Assessing the Impact of the Partial-Birth Abortion Cases, and Coming to Grips with the Consequences of Abortion |
| Presser, Stephen B | Pace, Herbert | Contracting out of Fiduciary Duties in LLCs: Delaware Will Lead, but Will Anyone Follow? |
| Redish, Martin H | Shaub, Jonathan | Children's Freedom of Speech and Expressive Paternalism in a Liberal Democracy |
| Reed, Stephen F | Castro, Ethan | JD or MBA...or Both? |
| Reed, Stephen F | Singh, Ajay | Energy Storage: Changing Landscape of Private Investing |
| Roberts, Dorothy E | Chapman, Sarah Jane | Adoption: Examination Within a Legal Morality Framework |
| Roberts, Dorothy E | De Souza, Keita | Parenting on Lockdown: Legal Barriers to Maintaining the Mother-Child Relationship While the Mother is Incarcerated |
| Roberts, Dorothy E | O'Donnell, Rebecca | |
| Roberts, Dorothy E | Satterfield Barjon, Gillian | Norman in the Face of Rising Poverty and Homelessness |
| Rubinowitz, Leonard S | Mansfield, Alexis | Moving Past the Past: Maximizing the Number of Successful Sealing and Expungement Petitions within the City of Chicago |
| Rubinowitz, Leonard S | Norris, Laura | The Return to Little Hell: The Role of the Chicago Housing Authority in the Physical Deterioration of Cabrini-Green |
| Schanzenbach, Max M | Ihm, John | Adopting US Trust Law to Korean Legal Systems |
| Scheffer, David J | Murphy, Amanda | Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility in the Courts of Ecuador |
| Scheffer, David J | Sorenson, Lori | The Special Court for Sierra Leone: The Search for Justice and a Jurisprudential Legacy |
| Schenkier, Sidney I | Buffmire, Edwin | The (Unappreciated) Multidimensional Benefits of Rule 502(d): Why and How Litigants Should Better Utilize the New Federal Rule of Evidence |
| Speta, James B | Armour, Courtney | |
| Speta, James B | Gamse, Nicholas | The Indecency of Indecency: How Media Filter Technology Affects the Constitutionality of Content-Based Broadcast Regulation |
| Speta, James B | Musey, J. | Broadcasting Licenses: How the Traditional Property Rights Model Informs the Spectrum Rationalization Challenge & Broadcasting Licenses: Ownership Rights and the Spectrum Rationalization Challenge |
| Staudt, Nancy C | Celestre, Francesca | Sometimes Hidden but Always Present: The Second Circuit's Use of Judicial Tax Doctrines |
| Staudt, Nancy C | Por, Daniel | Introduction to Taxation of Financial Instruments and Transactions (A Proposed Course) |
| Staudt, Nancy C | Wang, Chao | What Have We Learned About Women's Economic Lives Since 1975? |
| Stilt, Kristen A | Bickford, Lucy | Plurality Pitfalls: Solutions To Issues That Result From The Imperfect Intersection Of Religious And Civil Marriage Laws |
| Stilt, Kristen A | Kazi, Mansoor | Adoption and Orphan Care Practices in Muslim-Majority Countries |
| Tenenbaum, J. Samuel | Joseph, Andrew | Toward a More Competitive Economy: Policy Recommendations for Israel |
| Tepfer, Joshua | Smeryage, Colleen | Litigating Confessions in the Recording Age |
| Tiller II, Emerson H | Chan, Christina Yuiwah | State Political Ideology and the Adoption of Comparative Negligence |
| Tiller, Emerson | Kaplan, Ivan | an empirical analysis of whether judges' political affiliations influence their Chevron Step 1 determinations |
| Wilson, Audra | Warren, Hillary | Assisted Reproductive Technology and Defining LGBT Parenthood in the Era of Gay Marriage |
| Winslow, Heather | Nofal, Christopher | A Field Study in Crime, Technology, and Law |
| Yuracko, Kimberly | Walden, William | FLSA.com: Updating the Retail Sales Exemption |
| Yuracko, Kimberly | Pyo, Brooke | Answering "Why" Before Getting To "How": Justifications for Protecting Appearance and Why They Matter |
| Zulanas, Lisa | Fitterer, Jason | Standardizing Mediation Confidentiality |
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