2014 ACS National Student Writing Competition Finalists and Winners
Judges
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Judge Pamela Chen (E.D.N.Y.)
Justice Goodwin Liu (California Supreme Court)
Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo (E.D. Pa.)
Nicole Huberfeld, Professor of Law, University of Kentucky College of Law
Steve Sanders, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Franita Tolson, Betty T. Ferguson Professor of Voting Rights, Florida State University
College of Law
Winner
Disclosing Bribes in Disguise: Campaign Contributions as Implicit Bribes and the
Impartial Enforcement of Violations
-Brian Jordan, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Runners-Up
A New Framework for Fourth Amendment Rulemaking: Proposing a Modified
Equilibrium-Adjustment Paradigm
-Scott Gorski, Fordham University School of Law
The Nineteenth Amendment Enforcement Power: But First, Which One Is That,
Again?
-Steven Kolbert, Florida State University College of Law
Other Finalists
“You Are Obligated to Terminate This Pregnancy Immediately": The Contractual
Obligations of a Surrogate to Abort her Pregnancy
-Brittney Kern, Michigan State University
Transparent Failure: The Duplicative role of the State Secrets Doctrine in Criminal
Prosecutions
- Josh Porte, University of Minnesota
“I Fight Authority, [But Does] Authority Always Win?” An Inquiry into Whether
Transvaginal Ultrasounds Violate the Fourth Amendment’s Reasonable Search
Provision.
-Janelle Wilke, Chapman University
Analyzing the Constitutionality of Florida's Involuntary Blood Draw Statute in the
Wake of Missouri V. McNeely
-Francisco Zonorsa, Florida State University