Past Senior Research Projects
2024-25 Senior Research 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 |
| Bedi, Sheila | Wasif, Aasiyah | Navigating Justice: The Role of Law in Global Movements for Transformative Change |
| Calabresi, Steven | Ye, Xinxin | New Wave of Chinese Exclusion Acts Under Disguise of National Security |
| DiCola, Peter | Matrisciano, Sydney | Institutional Decision Making |
| Clopton, Zachary | Amen, Maggie | Comparative Constitutions |
| Clopton, Zachary | Song, Kevin | Due Process and Abstention |
| Francis, Clinton | Robertson, Keatrice | The Emerging Complexities in Corporate Restructuring |
| 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 |
| Koppelman, Andrew | Judah, Michael | Modern Application of the Establishment Clause's Historical Purposes in a Post-Kennedy v. Bremerton School District Framework |
| 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 |
2023-24 Senior Research Projects
| SUPERVISING FACULTY | STUDENT | PROJECT TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| Allen, Ronald | Piazza, Paul | The Common Law as a Complex Adaptive System |
| Barsa, Michael | Flynn, Palden | State Citizen Suit Provisions |
| Barsa, Michael | Urig, Maddy | Superfund Natural Resource Remediation and the Public Trust Doctrine |
| Bedi, Sheila | Tollner, Terah | "We Keep Us Safe": Movement-Led Proposals for Community Investment and Defunding the Chicago Police Department |
| Buth, Annalise | Bakhiet, Zeinab | Transformative Justice in Sudan: Navigating the Complex Path toward Peace and Collective Healing in the World's 'Forgotten War' |
| Clopton, Zachary | Pierce, Clark | State Taxpayer Standing |
| Clopton, Zachary | Seiler, Jenna | Deciding on Discovery: When Discovery Raises Questions of Foreign Law, How do U.S. Courts Answer? |
| Delaney, Erin | Mantegani, Joseph | Tribal Courts in Federalist Systems |
| Francis, Clinton | Blosser, Natalie | Toward a More Efficient and Empirically Based System for Allocating Risk, Return and Control Among Capital Providers in Chapter 11 |
| Francis, Clinton | Han, Sang Yup | Information Asymmetry in Corporate Restructuring: Financial Complexities from Initial Distress to Restructuring Resolutions |
| Francis, Clinton | Irfan, Sumair | Ushering a Legal and Financial Creature of the Past into the 21st Century: A Critique and Reimagining of the Capital Structure System in the TMT Sector and Beyond |
| Francis, Clinton | Johnston, Mattison | Claims Trading: Externalities and Transparency (TBC) |
| Francis, Clinton | Taub, Avi | The Original Purposes of the Bankruptcy Code: Have we Drifted Away From it? |
| Gandert, Daniel | Fable, Alessandra | Navigating the Ever-Changing NCAA NIL Policies: The Legal History, Varied Laws, Ethics, and Best Practices |
| Hoeflich, Adam | Hwang, Yeju | Uninjured and Excluded: Keeping Class Actions Honest |
| Horwich, Allan | O'Sullivan, Ryan | Accountability Redefined: Evaluating the Implications of the SEC’s Clawback Rule |
| Horwich, Allan | Patrick, Sarah | Congressional Insider Trading and the Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act |
| Jacobi, Tonja | Louthen, Elliot | Inevitable Discovery |
| Jacobi, Tonja | Maguire, Addie | The Differences in Policies and Purposes Between Administrative Searches of Probationers and Parolees |
| Jacobi, Tonja | Mascia, Eryn | Language, Power, and Prison Litigation |
| Jacobi, Tonja | Oka, Misty-Ann | Unwarranted: No-Knock Warrants After the Death of Breonna Taylor |
| Jones, Joshua | Coppola, Keegan | Limiting Instructions in Joint Criminal Trials |
| Kang, Michael | Dodsworth, Harry | The Negative and Positive Purcell Principle |
| Kang, Michael | Selzer, Eric | Criminal Campaign Finance |
| Koppelman, Andrew | Kabe, Benjamin | The Process of Self-Government: Addressing the Tension Between Brandeisian Free Speech and Federalism |
| Lawsky, Sarah | Richardson, Sebastian | On Legal Understanding |
| Linna, Daniel | Shekman, David | Applying Quantitative Methods to Legal Financing Agreements |
| 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 |
| Lupo, James | Turner, Cole | The Law According to Baldwin: Race and Queer Identity in Cultural Responses to Inequality |
| McGinnis, John | Barrett, James | Evidence of Specific Original Methods of Constitutional Interpretation |
| McGinnis, John | Henry, Daniel | Canons of Statutory Interpretation and Administrative Scope of Authority |
| McGinnis, John | Soh, Leo Jaehyun | Unsound Discretion: The Agency Declaratory Order’s Unfulfilled Rule-of-Law Promise |
| Mehrotra, Ajay | Suh, Daniel | (Title Pending) |
| Morgan, Jamelia | Burton-Martin, Jasmeene | Legal "Diagnosis" of Intelletual Disability: How and Why States Risk Violating Capital Defendants' Eighth Amendment Rights |
| Muchman, Wendy | Harkin, Riley | The Legal Ethics of "Deep Fakes" |
| 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 | Barnaby, Natalie | Virginia State Sovereign Immunity in the Post-Revolutionary Period |
| Pfander, James | Zakowski, Mary | From Writs of Scire Facias to National Injunctions |
| Redish, Martin | Bryski, Sasha | Personal Jurisdiction as Constitutional Law |
| Reed, Stephen | Ukpaby, Nneka | So, You Want To Be An Influencer? Now What? : A Practical Guide On The Legal & Business Issues Of Social Media Influencers |
| Rubinowitz, Leonard | Fintel, Kate | (Title Pending) |
| Schwartz, David | Learned, Glen | The Streamers Dilemma - DMCA Copyright Strikes on ld content |
| Schwartz, David | Rogers, Jules | Patentability of AI-Produced Inventions |
| Shapiro, David | Sopko, Adam | Judicial Perceptions of Risk in Policing (working title) |
| Shoked, Nadav | Le, Amy | The Law of Grants |
| Shoked, Nadav | Stage, David | City Income Taxes & Wealthy Inequality |
| Sorensen, Juliet | Heim, Meredith | Amicus Brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the Case of Manuela and Family v. El Salvador |
| 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 Pending) |
| Weinstock, Robert | Rackley, Victoria | The Future of Mitigation Banking: Wetland Protection in the Wake of Sackett v. EPA |
| Weisenhaus, Doreen | Hixson, Jesse | The Tennessee Open Records Act in Practice: Grading Tennessee's Compliance with its Government Transparency Goals |
2022-23 Senior Research Projects
| SUPERVISING FACULTY |
STUDENT | PROJECT TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| Arimond, Bridget | Eiland, Austin | LGBTQI+ Rights in International Law: An Examination of the Impact of the Yogyakarta Principles |
| Barsa, Michael | Choi, Michael | Talking about Climate Change: The SEC's Climate Disclosure Rule and the Compelled Commercial Speech Doctrine |
| Barsa, Michael | Kittelberger, Jessica | Beyond Price Controls: The Extraterritoriality Principle’s Possible Transformative Impact on Animal Welfare |
| Biehl, Julie | Hughes, Erin | Community Defense Clinics as a More Effective Model of Public Defense |
| Calabresi, Steven | Cordonnier, Bailey | In Defense of Originalism |
| DiCola, Peter | Beirne, Michael | Loss of Laches: SCOTUS Supports Strategic Suits |
| DiCola, Peter | DeVlieger, Dana | The Inconsistent Application of the Extrinsic Test in Music Copyright Cases |
| Glogower, Ari | Sethi, Jas | Private Placement Insurance has Left the "Insurance" Behind - Reconciling the Favorable Tax Treatment of PPI with its Higher Risk and Returns |
| Gowder, Paul | Cleary, Elaine | Ghost Guns: 3D Printed Firearms and the First Amendment |
| Kitrosser, Heidi | Gilligan, Brendan | Without Borders or Boundaries: Executive Order 12,333 Signals Intelligence and the Constitutional Requirement of Judicial Review |
| Kleinfeld, Joshua | Bayer, Dominic | The Plain Meaning Rule and Textualism |
| Kugler, Matthew | Lee, Allison | (Title Pending) |
| Kugler, Matthew | Preminger, Alice | Right of Publicity and Deepfakes |
| Lindgren, James | Zylberberg, Daniel | Maintaining Kovel Privilege in a Corporate Transactional Setting |
| Linna Jr., Daniel | Wu, Elise | Between Promises and Pitfalls: Addressing the Potential Impact of Adopting Artificial Intelligence in the United Nation’s Agenda in Health and Human Rights |
| Llorente, Monica | Lang-Reyes, Andrew | First Generation Law Students: Tribulations & Triumphs |
| McGinnis, John | Stehle, Jared | Privatizing Antitrust: Neo-Brandeisians' Democracy Problem |
| McGinnis, John | Stippich, Grace | A Backwards-Looking Framework for Antitrust Law |
| Morgan, Jamelia | Boraz, Katharine | Justice for All: Remedies for Disability Discrimination in a Post-Cummings World |
| Pfander, James | O'Brien, Jacqueline | The Surprisingly Functional World of Territorial Jurisdiction |
| Pfander, James | Wagner, Nicholas | Quashing |
| Redish, Martin | Epstein, David | The Unitary Executive in the Age of Authoritarianism |
| Redish, Martin | Lane, Jackson | The Declaratory Judgment Act and Federal Jurisdiction |
| Reed, Stephen | Jameel, Sarah | The Future of Sustainable Fashion Law, Policy, & Business Practices |
| Sorensen, Juliet | Choi, Jeehoon | Lobbying and Bribery |
| Wang, Xiao | Bellis, Michael | Structural Direct Democracy |
| Weinstock, Robert | Nchako, Taylor | Integrating Indigenous Water Rights into International Conservation Law |
| Zimmerman, Clifford | Desgrosseilliers, Taylor | Megadrought and Prior Appropriation: Modern Legal Approaches to Distributing Water in the West |
| Zimmerman, Clifford | Hale, Lucas | (Title Pending) |