Awards

Student Essay Awards

The Center for International and Comparative Law offers two student essay awards each academic year for papers on topics in international and comparative law. This competition is open to all students in the University of Baltimore School of Law, Merrick School of Business and Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts.

Recent First Prize Winners:

2012

Amanda Webster
"The Collective Bargaining Chips are Down: How Wisconsin's Collective Bargaining Restrictions Place the US in Violation of International Labor Laws"

2011

Nathan Volke
"Leaving Neverland: Can America Construct a Comprehensive Preventive Detention Policy That Balances Liberty and Security in a World of Terror?"

2010

Arezoo Jamshidi
“ICSID’s Jurisdictional Jurisprudence: Legitimacy in the Balance”

2009

Ian Foss
"The European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy Expressed Through International Organizations"

2008

Ryan Webster
"Protecting the World with Supply-chain Contracts: The Use of Contracts to Require Compliance with Labor Conditions and Environmental Standards"

2007

Gillian Flynn
“Achieving International Protection of Cultural Property: Proposals for Harmonizing Common Law and Civil Law Approaches”

2006

David Schaffer
“A Comparative Analysis of the Aspirations and Flaws of the French and German Headscarf Cases”

2005

Gregory M. Garrett
“Protection of the Global Commons Requires A New International Convention”

2004

Michael Morris
“Truth in Chemical Weapons Disposal”

2003

Donna Davis
“Preemptive Intervention”

2002

Amy Mezewski
“European Union Controls in United States Mergers”

2001

Shannon McCormack
“Comparative International Taxation”

2000

Kai-Niklas A. Schneider
“Export Controls on Encryption Technologies”

• Awards Presented in Prior Years

  1999 Michele Kendus, "Welfaire and Immigration Reform in the Wake of California Proposition 187"

  1998 Susan John, "Vertical Restraints in the European Union"

  1997 Peter Jackman, "Adoption of a First-to-File Patent System for the United States"

  1996 Sandra M. Aistars-Annus, "Russian Foreign Policy and International Law in the New World Or