School: Notre Dame Law School

Essay: (Strict) Scrutinizing Regulatory Exemptions: The Dormant Commerce Clause’s Lessons for Litigating Our “Most Favored Right

Sponsored by: Richard W. Garnett, Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corp. Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School

Award: $15,000, also $5,000 to the scholarship fund selected by the Dean of Notre Dame Law School

School: University of Virginia School of Law

Essay: First Amendment Independent Appellate Review’s Overlooked Origin Story

Sponsored by: Leslie Kendrik, Dean and Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Award: $7,500

School: Washington University in St. Louis Law School

Essay: The Evolution of Standing and the Need for Foundational Realism: A Historical Inquiry from Hayburn to Harvard

Sponsored by: Russell K. Osgood, Professor, Washington University in St. Louis Law School

Award: $5,000

School: Southern University Law Center

Essay: The Future of Law: Navigating Constitutional Interpretation, Corporate Power, and Emerging Technologies in a Rapidly Changing World

Sponsored by: Murphy Bell, Professor, Southern University Law Center

Award: $2,500

School: Harvard Law School

Essay: Raphael Fulgosius on Just War: Papal Adjudication of Conflicts and War as Judgment

Sponsored by: Bruce H. Mann, Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Award: $2,500

School: Notre Dame Law School

Essay: The Ciceronian Origins of American Law and Constitutionalism

Sponsored by: Jeffrey A. Pojanowski, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School

Award: $15,000, plus a donation of $5,000 to the Scholarship Fund selected by the Dean of the Law School

School: Penn State Law

Essay: Streaming, It’s in the Game: Why Fair Use Should Protect Video Game Live-Streamers Using Copyrighted or Trademarked Content

Sponsored by: Geoffrey Scott, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University Law School

Award: $7,500

School: Georgetown Law

Essay: Section 2 of the Sherman Act: Unconstitutional Vagueness and What to Do About It

Sponsored by: Linda Jeng, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Award: $5,000

School: Yale Law School

Essay: The Vertical Nondelegation Paradigm

Sponsored by: Nicholas Parrillo, William K. Townsend Professor of Law, Yale University Law School

Award: $2,500

School: University of Texas School of Law

Essay: The Conflict Between the Flag State Principle and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and how the DC Circuit Got It Wrong

Sponsored by: Michael F. Sturley, Fannie Coplin Regents Chair, University of Texas Law School

Award: $2,500

School: Vanderbilt University Law School

Essay: The Myth of Anonymity: De-Identified Data as Legal Fiction

Recommended by: Lisa Schultz Bressman, Associate Dean, Vanderbilt Law School

Award: $15,000, plus a donation of $5,000 to the Scholarship Fund selected by the Dean of Vanderbilt Law School

School: University of Texas School of Law

Essay: Collapsing Admiralty’s Jurisdictional and Choice of Law Tests

Recommended by: Michael Sturley, Professor, University of Texas Law School

Award: $7,500

School: Notre Dame Law School

Essay: Severability and Standing Puzzles in the Law of Removal Power

Recommended by: William K. Kelley, Professor, Notre Dame Law School

Award: $5,000

School: Georgetown University Law Center

Essay: The Right to Refuse to Deal, the Essential Facilities Doctrine, and the Digital Economy

Recommended by: Linda Jeng, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School

Award: $2,500

School: University of Georgia School of Law

Essay: “Traditional Notions” in the Modern Age: Reassessing Keeton Through a Post-Bristol-Myers Lens

Recommended by: Dean Peter B. Rutledge, University of Georgia School of Law

Award: $2,500

School: Duquesne University School of Law

Essay: Arbitration Prime: Amazon's Utility Patient Evaluation Process and Its Influence on the Private Resolution of Patent Disputes

School: University of Virginia School of Law

Essay: The Common Law of Interpretation

School: University of Houston Law Center

Essay: The Impact of Foresight: Reframing Discriminatory Intent to Properly Remedy Environmental Racism

School: Wake Forest University Law School

Essay: Pluralism Boundaries When Rights Clash in the Culture Wars

School: University of Colorado School of Law

Essay: Walling Off Privacy: Apple's NeuralHash Controversy, the ECPA, the Fourth Amendment, and Encryption

School: Notre Dame Law School

Sponsored by: Jeffrey Pojanowski, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School

Essay: State Statutory Interpretation and Horizontal Choice of Law

School: Harvard Law School

Essay: Recent Case: Colorado Department of Labor & Employment v. Dami Hospitality, LLC

School: University of Akron School of Law

Essay: The War on Bribes: The FCPA and the Global Battle to End Corruption

School: UC Berkeley School of Law

Essay: An Environmental FOIA: Balancing Trade Secrecy with the Public’s Right to Know

School: Pepperdine University School of Law

Essay: The Right to Conscience vs. The Right to Die: Physician-Assisted Suicide, Catholic Hospitals, and the Rising Threat to Institutional Free Exercise in Healthcare

School: University of Virginia School of Law

Sponsored by: Professor Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia School of Law

Essay: Confining Custody

School: Harvard Law School

Sponsored by: Professor Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School

Essay: How the House Sues

School: Cornell University Law School

Sponsored by: Professor Muna Ndulo, Cornell Law School

Essay: International Cultural Heritage Law: The Link Between Cultural Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Concept of Cultural Genocide

School: Notre Dame Law School

Sponsored by: Professor Elizabeth White Dietz, Notre Dame Law School

Essay: Stare Decisis and the Supreme Court(s): What States Can Learn from Gamble

School: University of Chicago Law School

Sponsored by: Professor Aziz Huq, The University of Chicago Law School

Essay: Clarifying and Reframing the “Ministerial Exception” by Tyler B. Lindley

School: George Mason University (Scalia) Law School

School: Washington & Lee University Law School

Essay: Left with No Name: How Government Action in Intra-Church Trademark Disputes Violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment

School: University of Akron School of Law

Sponsored by: Christopher J. (C.J.) Peters, Dean of UA School of Law

Essay: Masterpiece Cakeshop: A Formula for Legislative Accommodations of Religion

School: University of Connecticut School of Law

School: University of Houston Law Center

Sponsored by: Professor of Practice Denney Wright, UH Law Center

Essay: Oil-Rich and Out of Options: Venezuela’s International Arbitration Saga of Expropriation, Enforcement and Settlement

School: University of Miami School of Law

Essay: Eat Your Vitamins and Say Your Prayers: Bollea v. Gawker, Revenge Litigation Funding, and the Fate of the Fourth Estate

School: William & Mary University Law School

Essay: The Early Eight and the Future of Consumer Legal Activism to Fight Modern-Day Slavery in Corporate Supply Chains

School: UC Berkeley School of Law

Essay: A 'Source' of Error: Computer Code, Criminal Defendants, and the Confrontation Clause

School: Quinnipiac University School of Law

Essay: Avoiding the Fate of Argos: The Duty of Pet Trust Protectors in Connecticut

School: University of Connecticut School of Law

Essay: Lessons From Wynne: Why New York City's Internally Consistent Income Tax Nonetheless Violates the Dormant Commerce Clause

School: St. John’s University School of Law

Sponsored by: Margaret E. McGuinness, St. John’s University School of Law

Essay: Extraterritorial Human Trafficking Prosecutions: Eliminating Zones of Impunity within the Limits of International Law and Due Process

School: Washburn University School of Law

Sponsored by: David Rubenstein, Washburn University School of Law

Essay: Hybrid Immigration Preemption

School: University of Colorado School of Law

Sponsored by: Alexia Brunet Marks, University of Colorado Boulder

Essay: Ecotypes and Killer Whales: Adopting a Scientific Concept to Guide the Endangered Species Act’s “Distinct Population Segments

School: Yale Law School

Sponsored by: Anne L. Alstott, Yale Law School

Essay: Reworking the Revolution: Treasury Rulemaking & Administrative Law

School: Marquette University Law School

Sponsored by: Michael O’Hear, Marquette University Law School

Essay: A Way Out of the “Rotten Social Background” Stalemate: “Scarcity” and Stephen Morse’s Proposed Generic Partial Excuse

School: St. John’s University School of Law

Sponsored by: Professor Jane Scott

Essay: Emerging from Daimler’s Shadow: Regulation statutes as a Means to General Jurisdiction over Foreign Corporations

School: University of Illinois College of Law

Essay: The Poison of Propensity: How Character and Fitness Sacrifices the “Others” in the Name of “Protection”

School: University of Houston Law Center

Essay: Incorporating the Third Branch of Government into U.S. National Security Review of Foreign Investment

School: Southern University Law Center

Essay: Johnson v. United States: A Breach in the Social Contract?

School: University of Miami Law School

Essay: A Promise Realized? A Critical Review of Accountable Care Organizations since the Enactment of the Affordable Care Act

School: Yale Law School

Essay: A Reassessment of Common Law Protections for ‘Idiots

School: Vanderbilt University Law School

Essay: Baptizing O'Brien: Towards Intermediate Protection of Religiously Motivated Expressive Conduct

School: University of Pennsylvania Law School

Essay: The Limitations of Tradition: How Modern Choice of Law Doctrine Can Help Courts Resolve Conflicts within the New York Convention and the Federal Arbitration Act

School: St. John’s University School of Law

Essay: Cutting Out the Middleman: Why "Look and Feel" Should Be Ignored in Trade Dress Law

School: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

School: Brooklyn Law School

Essay: Giving Local Municipalities the Power to Affect the National Securities Market: Why the Use of Eminent Domain to Take Mortgages Should Be Subject to Greater Regulation

School: University of Michigan Law School

Essay: An Implausible Standard for Affirmative Defenses

School: Syracuse University College of Law

Essay: Note, Business and Friendship Don’t Mix: The Government’s Expansion of Insider Trading Liability Under SEC Rule 10b5–2

School: University of Utah College of Law

Essay: Treating the Blue Rash: Win-Win Solutions and Improving the Land Exchange Process

School: Emory University School of Law

Essay: I, Too, Sing America: Customary International Law for American State and Federal Courts’ Post-Kiobel Jurisprudence, Guided by Australian and Indian Experiences