Health Law and Policy Program

Meet Our Past Winners

2022-2023

First Place

Kate Bock

University of North Carolina School of Law
Paper title: "Abortion Access for Incarcerated People Post-Dobbs: The Eighth Amendment Argument"

Second place

Lauren Rutkowski

Seton Hall University School of Law
Paper title: "'Resulting From' Unclear Language: Why Congress Must Amend the Anti-Kickback Statute to Clarify Its Intent to Hold Violators Accountable and Recover
Fraud-Based Payments"

Third Place

Katie Cohen

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Paper title: "Unpacking a Damaging Trifecta: The Inflation Reduction Act as a Case Study into Health Policy鈥檚 Structural Constraints"


Honorable Mention

David Edholm

University of Minnesota Law School
Paper title: "No Orphan Left Behind: A Novel Approach to the Orphan Drug Act Incentive Scheme"

2021-2022

First Place

Christina Fuleihan

Boston University School of Law
Paper title: "Shattering the Mirage: The FDA鈥檚 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听

Weston McCLain

University of Oregon School of Law
Paper title: "Preventive Care: Improving Health of Medicare, Medicaid, and Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program Patients Through Access to Fresh Fruit and Vegetables"

2020-2021

First Place

Puja Upadhyay

Temple University Beasley School of Law
Paper title: "Public Health and Individual Liberty:听Jacobson v. Massachusetts听and the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Second Place

Majesta-Dor茅听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听

Alexander Davis

Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Paper title: "Time to Amend Minnesota鈥檚 Immunization Statute: Repeal Nonmedical Exemptions to Primary School Vaccination Requirements"

2019-2020

First Place

Julia Thibault

Boston University School of Law
Paper title:听"America's Oldest Drug Cartel: Civil RICO Action in re听Insulin Pricing Litigation听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"

2018-2019

First Place

Eric Emanuelson

国产小呦女 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

国产小呦女 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?"