James A. Rahl/Owen L. Coon Senior Research Program
The James A. Rahl/Owen L. Coon Senior Research Program gives third-year Northwestern Pritzker 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)
| SUPERVISING FACULTY | STUDENT | PROJECT TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| Allen, Ronald | Van Valkenburg, Britney | Religious Accommodation and Compulsory Vaccination: A Constitutional and Policy Analysis |
| Buth, Annalise | Yang, Xiaoyu | The Restorative Justice Element of Substance Use Disorder Treatment |
| DeSanto, Jason | Devedjian, Andrew | The Sentiments of The People: Constitutional Identity and the Rhetoric of Belonging |
| DiCola, Peter | Griffin, Beth | Copyright, Labor, and the Recording Industry |
| Francis, Clinton | Shin, Ethan | Distressed Debt and Special Situation Strategies |
| Francis, Clinton | Webster, George | A Blockchain-based System for Monitoring Collateral and Enterprise Valuations in Real-Time |
| Francis, Clinton | Zhao, Daiwei | The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Secured Transactions |
| Ingelhart, Kara | Cavanaugh, Kenneth | Criminal Sex Trade Legislation in the United States: A 50-State Survey of Proposed and Enacted Reform Legislation, and Illinois Case Study |
| McGinnis, John | Lanzer, Samuel | The APA, Vacatur, and Who Can Seek Review |
| McGinnis, John | Zhang, Maple | After Corner Post: Consequences and Unresolved Questions |
| Muchman, Wendy | Dow, Michael | Get a Name, File a Claim: The Issues with Claim Aggregation in Mass Tort MDL and Class Actions |
| Pfander, James | MacPhail, Matthew | Tax Collector Indemnity as a Legal Right in the Early Republic |
| Pfander, James | Roloff, Lindsey | Procedure in the Early Republic: From Royal Petition to an Individual Right to Litigate |
| Redish, Martin | Cabral, Victoria | Case or Controversy in Class Action Litigation |
| Redish, Martin | Hiatt, May | The Overmedicated Eleventh Amendment |
| Rodriguez, Daniel | Tidwell, Bradley | Recovering the Legislative Veto: Old Wine in a New Bottle |
| Rubinowitz, Leonard | Popov, Serge | The Triumphs, Trials, and Tribulations of a Civil Rights Giant |
| Schwartz, David | Chakrabarti, Abhishek | Settled Expectations and the Structure of Patent Review |
| Shoked, Nadav | Korger, Jon | What's in a Shape? Annexation Law's Contiguity Dilemma |
| Shoked, Nadav | Kruse, Austin | Local Election Administration |
| Speta, James | Ghoorhoo, Harshana | Designing a Telecommunications Legal Framework for Smart Infrastructure: Interoperability, Security, and Governance in AI-Native and Satellite-Integrated Networks |