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 | Piazza, Paul | The Common Law as a Complex Adaptive System |
| Barsa, Michael | Urig, Maddy | Superfund Natural Resource Remediation and the Public Trust Doctrine |
| Francis, Clinton | Han, Sang Yup | Information Asymmetry in Corporate Restructuring: Financial Complexities from Initial Distress to Restructuring Resolutions |
| Francis, Clinton | Taub, Avi | The Original Purposes of the Bankruptcy Code: Have we Drifted Away From it? |
| Hoeflich, Adam | Hwang, Yeju | Uninjured and Excluded: Keeping Class Actions Honest |
| Horwich, Allan | Patrick, Sarah | Congressional Insider Trading and the Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act |
| Horwich, Allan | O'Sullivan, Ryan | Accountability Redefined: Evaluating the Implications of the SEC’s Clawback Rule |
| Kang, Michael | Selzer, Eric | Criminal Campaign Finance |
| Lawsky, Sarah | Richardson, Sebastian | On Legal Understanding |
| Litvak, Katherine | Warren, John | Cross-Listing Pair Premia and the 2000 U.S. Technology Bubble |
| Lupo, James | Donahue, Kaitlan | Redress or Regulation? Remedial Purpose and Private Attorney General Causes of Action |
| McGinnis, John | Soh, Leo Jaehyun | Title TBD |
| Morgan, Jamelia | Burton-Martin, Jasmeene | Legal "Diagnosis" of Intelletual Disability: How and Why States Risk Violating Capital Defendants' Eighth Amendment Rights |
| Muchman, Wendy | Norise, Sarah | The Vocal Disdain for Rule Model Rule 8.4(g). What is the Real Problem? The Rule or a Desire to Protect the Ability to Discriminate? |
| Pfander, James | Zakowski, Mary | From Writs of Scire Facias to National Injunctions |
| Redish, Martin | Bryski, Sasha | Personal Jurisdiction as Constitutional Law |
| Speta, James | Eisley, Addison | Criminal Law in Legislative Courts |
| Speta, James | Shcherbakova, Elizaveta | The Current Federal Legal Landscape in Data Privacy and Cybersecurity |
| Tuerkheimer, Deborah | Gottschalk, Anne | Title TBD |