First Place
Christina Fuleihan
Boston University School of Law
Paper title: "Shattering the Mirage: The FDA’s Early COVID-19 Pandemic Response Demonstrates an Urgent Need for Reform to Restore Agency Credibility"
Second Place
Morgan Cronin
Georgia State University College of Law
Paper title: "How Deep is the Objective Falsity Circuit Split?"
Third Place
Delaney Bounds
The University of Iowa College of Law
Paper title: "Fulfilling the Olmstead Decision's Right to Home-Based Care in 2022: Paying Spousal Caregivers"
Honorable Mention
Weston McCLain
University of Oregon School of Law
Paper title: "Preventive Care: Improving Health of Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program Patients Through Access to Fresh Fruit and Vegetables"
First Place
Puja Upadhyay
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Paper title: "Public Health and Individual Liberty: Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Second Place
Majesta-Doré Legnini
William & Mary Law School
Paper title: "An Unfulfilled Promise: Section 1557's Failure to Effectively Confront Discrimination in Healthcare"
Third Place
Timothy Cordova
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Paper title: "The Blurred Lines Between Life and Death: Problems and Solutions in Brain Death Determinations"
Honorable Mention
Alexander Davis
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Paper title: "Time to Amend Minnesota’s Immunization Statute: Repeal Nonmedical Exemptions to Primary School Vaccination Requirements"
First Place
Julia Thibault
Boston University School of Law
Paper title: "America's Oldest Drug Cartel: Civil RICO Action in re Insulin Pricing Litigation and the Case for Overruling the Indirect Purchaser Rule"
Second Place
Jessa Boubker
Boston University School of Law
Paper title: "When Medical Devices Have a Mind of Their Own: The Challenges of Regulating AI"
Honorable Mention
Jessica Kolanowski
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Paper title: "Why So Trusting?: Informed Consent in the Context of Genetic Research"
First Place
Eric Emanuelson
American University Washington College of Law
Paper title: "Is the (Vape) Juice Worth the Squeeze?: Considering the Limits to E-Cigarette and Disclosure Laws"
Second Place
Brianna Gardner
American University Washington College of Law
Paper title: "'Settling' The Opioid Crisis: The Role of the Judiciary in Protecting the Public Health"
2017-2018
First Place
Adrienne Thomas
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Paper title: "A New Exception to the Right to Refuse: Requiring Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to Sell Samples for Bioequivalence Testing"
Second Place
Elizabeth Burnett
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Paper title: "Solving the Uncertainty: Why the HIPAA Privacy Rule Fails to Appropriately Address Disclosures of Psychotherapy Notes of Deceased Patients"
2016-2017
First Place
Lauren Tonti
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Paper Title: "Food for Thought: Flexible Farm to School Procurement Policies Can Surmount Access Barriers to Fresh, Healthy School Meals"
Second Place
Neiloy Sircar
Georgetown University Law Center
Paper Title: "Good Public Health Policy, Better Public Health Law: Blood Donation, Individual Risk Assessments & Lifting the MSM Deferral"
2015-2016
First Place
Rebecca Gittelson
University of North Carolina
Paper Title: "Evaluating Physician Compare: Benefits and Challenges of Scorecards for Individual Physicians"
Second Place
Monica Houston
University of Wyoming College of Law
Paper Title: "Hepatitis C: There's a Cure, But Who Will Bail Out the Department of Corrections?"