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Essay Contest

2011 Law Student Essay Competition Winners

First Prize
"Reading, Writing and Interrogating: Providing Miranda Warnings to Students in Schoolhouse Interrogations"
Stephanie Forbes
William & Mary Law School

 

Second Prize
"School's Out? Factoring a Student's Age into Miranda's Custody Calculus"
Daniel Paterno
Pennsylvania State University, The Dickinson School of Law

 

Third Prize
"Hear My Words That I Might Teach Your: The Rights to Silence and Counsel Down at the School Yard"
Daniel M. Erwin
Quinnipiac University School of Law

 

 
2010 Law Student Essay Competition Winners

First Prize
"Confronting State Experimentation in the Wake of Melendez-Diaz"
George B. Milam
University of Virginia School of Law

 

Second Prize
"In Search of a New Rationale: The Effects of Melendez-Diaz on the Admission of Lab Results"
Sarah Martin
University of California – Berkeley, School of Law

 

Third Prize
"The Procedural Sweet-spot Between the Confrontation Clause and the Administration of Justice Regarding Forensic Analyst Reports"
Justin Fine
University of Baltimore School of Law

 

 
2009 Law Student Essay Competition Winner

"Evidence Obtained from Remote Electronic Traffic Devices: An Argument for Admissibility in Civil and Criminal Cases"

Jessica Wang
UCLA School of Law

 
2008 Law Student Essay Competition Winners

1st Place - $3,000
"Roadside Seizures of Medical Marijuana: Public Safety and Public Policy as Limitations Upon Transporting and the Return of Lawfully Seized Medical Marijuana"
Cameron Mostaghim
Western State University College of Law

 

2nd Place - $1,500
"Hiding the Constitution in the Glove Box: Warrantless Searches 
Following Motor Vehicle Stops"
Christie Ayotte
Emory University

 

3rd Place - $1,000
"Arizona v. Gant: The Future of Motor Vehicle Searches Incident to Arrest"
Joshua M. Minner
Oklahoma City University School of Law