James A. Rahl/Owen L. Coon Senior Research Program
The James A. Rahl/Owen L. Coon Senior Research Program gives third-year Northwestern Law students the opportunity to work closely with our renowned faculty exploring answers to challenging questions of doctrine and policy. Due to the generosity of the Owen L. Coon Foundation and other donors, there is a fund to support empirical research expenses of projects. Students are placed with supervising professors, experts in their field, to conduct research on the most pertinent current and historical legal issues.
Senior Research Rules (pdf)
Current Projects
| Supervising Faculty | Student | Project Topic |
|---|---|---|
|
Allen, Ronald |
Elliott-Smith, Nic | Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is not a Thing: It is an Emergent Property of a Complex Adaptive System |
| Barsa, Michael | Barone, Madeline | Closing the Water Quality Gap |
| DiCola, Peter | Matrisciano, Sydney | Institutional Decision Making |
| Glogower, Ari | Matthews, Ethan | Judicial Deference to Taxing Authorities after Loper Bright |
| Horwitz, Jill | Yarosh, Micaela | Title TBD |
| Jones, Joshua | Richards, Alecia | Brady obligations during plea bargaining |
| Kugler, Matthew | Birnholtz, Jordan | Has Counterman undermined public safety? |
| Kugler, Matthew | Laemmle, Ezra | Evidence of Impairment in Dilution |
| McBride, Meredith | Burnette, Austin | Education Evolution: Schools' Changing Relationships with Discipline |
| McGinnis, John | Pillari, Phil | Skidmore Deference in a Post-Loper Bright framework |
| Mehrotra, Ajay | Ungar, Akiva | Dollars and Sense: A TCJA Review for High-Net-Worth Individuals |
| Muchman, Wendy | Hartl, Natalie | Confidential Government Information under Ethical Rule 1.11(c) |
| Pfander, James | Abdelsalam, Samy | Sovereign Immunity & The Treasury Department |
| Redish, Martin | Asif, Areeb | The Constitutional Anomaly of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Redish, Martin | Fairchild, Kailey | Weaponizing the First Amendment |
| Redish, Martin | Pritchard, Samuel | Judicial Parity and Congressional Choice: Historical Development of Judicial Federalism |
| Reed, Stephen | Greenberg, Jake | Reconsidering Pre-Acquisition Structure for Private Equity Acquisitions of Talent Centric Businesses |
| Tokic, Genevieve | Zimmerman, Baruch | Taxation of Stapled Securities |
| Yuracko, Kimberly | Bae, Justin | Beyond SFFA: The Legal Crusade Against DEI in the Workplace |
| Yuracko, Kimberly | Mostow, Melody | State Divorce Laws and Mandatory Separation Periods: A 50-State Study and Policy Analysis |