| 2019–2020 | Award | Recipient | Comment Title |
| The Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in U.S.-Mexican Relations | Chelsea Klumpp | Punishing the Persecuted: How the United States’ Use of Mandatory Immigration Detention Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity with Regard to Transgender Asylees from the Northern Triangle | |
| The Antroy Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law | Brooke Bentley | The Inadequacy of International Law to Address Cyber-Attacks in the Age of Election-Meddling | |
| The Executive Board 43 Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law | Nikita Westberg | Whether Current Laws and Policies Have Planned Enough to Prevent Unplanned Ship Collision | |
| The James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Human Rights Law | Brennan Flannery | The Climate Change-Migration Nexus: Promoting Sustainability in an Effort to Mitigate Environmentally Displaced Persons and Their Vulnerability to Human Trafficking | |
| The Executive Board 43 Award: Outstanding Comment in International Human Rights Law | Robert Root | Online Political Discourse in the Digital Age: How to Best Protect Internet Access in an Effort to Promote Political Discourse Within Changing Societies | |
| The Executive Board 43 Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law | Emily Lucot | “Recycled in China”: An Examination of the Recycling Systems in the United States and the Effects that China’s Ban on Accepting American Waste Is Having on American Public Health, the Recycling Industry, and Possible Solutions Found in Other Nations | |
| The Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law | Jennifer Walker | International Influence: The Need for Advertising Regulations in Social Media Advertisements | |
| The James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Energy Law | Cacique Rich-Martinez | New Trade Deals, New Opportunities |
| 2018–2019 | Award | Recipient | Comment Title |
| Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in U.S.-Mexican Relations | Jennifer Gardner | Inaction at the Border – An Environmental Market Solution to Safe Water in the Rio Grande | |
| Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law | Benjamin Caldwell | Avocados from Ecuador: Do the U.S. Importation Regulations Discriminate? | |
| James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Energy Law | Danielle Lam | China’s Struggle for a Sustainable Green Future | |
| Walter A. Wright Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law | Pedro Segura | REDD+ Dead Redemption: Beyond Property Rights as a Panacea for Resisting Carbon Colonialism in International Forest Conservation | |
| Antroy A. Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law | Michael Drab | Medicare’s International Pricing Index Reimbursement Model and Its Impact on Biosimilars Approved Under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 | |
| Marissa Weitzner Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law | Kate Schorken | Restitution Claims of Nazi-Expropriated Art: Are Courts Re-Writing History? |
| 2017–2018 | Award | Recipient | Comment Title |
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Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in U.S.-Mexican Relations |
Michael Dearman |
Intractable Problems and Modest Solutions: The Illicit Antiquities Trade Between the United States and Mexico |
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Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law |
Kristin Kluding |
Disincentivizing the Growing Trend of Denunciating the Investment Treaty Framework: Tracking the Criticisms and Analyzing the Future of Transnational Regulation of Investment Law |
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Walter A. Wright Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Teri Russel |
#TwitterinPolitics: How the use of Social Media Could Become Customary International Law |
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Antroy Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Ashley Lopez |
Where is my Name?: The Struggle for Afghan Womens’ Identity Rights and the Need for International Intervention |
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Marissa Weitzner Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Andrew Vaughan |
Exploring the Constitutionality of the Jasta Act and its Potential Consequences for United States Foreign Relations |
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| James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Petroleum Law | Clara Betancourt |
The Legal Impact of Executive Order 13808 on American Companies Servicing Venezuela |
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| Allyson Li & Paul A. Arnold Award: Outstanding Casenote in International Economics | Daniel Vasquez |
Bolivarian Republic of Venez. v. Helmerich & Payne Int’l Drilling Co.: Raised Pleading Standard and the Potential Effects |
| 2016–2017 | Award | Recipient | Comment Title |
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Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in U.S.-Mexican Relations |
Ernesto Danache |
Mexico and Investment Dispute Resolution: Is Mexico’s Approach to the ICSID Convention a Misconception? |
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Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law |
Mike Meltser |
Major League Baseball and Cuba in the Age of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump |
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Walter A. Wright Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Tiffany Li |
Leftover Men! An Aftermath of China’s One-Child Policy |
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Gus Vlahadamis Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Calvin McKnight |
The Energy Modernization Policy Act: Updating the U.S. Energy Strategy for the New Age of LNG |
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Antroy Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Manuel Schoenhuber |
The European Union’s Refugee Deal with Turkey: A Risky Alliance Contrary to European Laws and Values |
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Scott S. Cramer Award: Outstanding Comment in International Transactional Law |
Christopher Caudill |
An Unnatural Drought: How the Water Shortage in Jordan May Impact the Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and Jordan’s Options for the Future |
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Marissa Weitzner Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Tania Alonso |
The Aftermath of the Panama Papers and its Implications on Tax Compliance Programs Aimed at Combating Abusive Off-Shore Tax Avoidance |
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| James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Petroleum Law | Sean Belding |
Global Conflict in the South China Sea, Challenges Facing the Law of the Sea and Mutually Assured Destruction |
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| Allyson Li & Paul A. Arnold Award: Outstanding Casenote in International Economics | Maggie Kiely |
To Ban or Not to Ban: Shakespearean Drama Trumps Constitutional Analysis in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,” analyzing The Washington v. Trump opinion |
| 2015–2016 | Award | Recipient | Comment Title |
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Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in U.S.-Mexican Relations |
Jacqueline F. Hyatt |
The Energy-Water Nexus: Water Regulation in the Wake of Mexico’s Hydrocarbon Reform |
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Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law |
Hannah Tucker |
The New Cold War: A Novel Takings Theory on Economic Sanctions Against Exploration and Production in Russia |
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Walter A. Wright Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Nicole Su |
The International Custody Battle: Conflict of Law Between the Hague Abduction Convention and U.S. Asylum Law |
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Gus Vlahadamis Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Margaret Webber |
Lifting the Sanctions Against Iran: Business Implications for the United States and European Union |
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Antroy Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Mitchell Ford |
War on the Final Frontier: Can Twentieth-Century Space Law Combat Twenty-First-Century Warfare? |
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Scott S. Cramer Award: Outstanding Comment in International Transactional Law |
Ian E. Brown |
China’s Leaked CSRC Report Five Years Later: Baseline For Variable Interest Entity Trajectory? |
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Antroy Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law |
Victoria Dessens |
Dispute Settlement Within the WTO and MERCOSUR: Who Can Get Brazil Under Control? |
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| Mr. and Mrs. James W. Skelton, Jr. Award for Outstanding Comment in International Energy Law | Angela Y. Kao |
Talk Is Cheap, So Is Oil: Where Do We Go Now That We’ve Lifted the United States Crude Oil Export Ban |
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| 2014–2015 | Award | Recipient | Comment Title |
| LEX Writing Excellence Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Mark Burgin | Holy Moses: Guiding the Rio Grande out of the Desert | |
| Walter A. Wright Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Victoria Guzman | A Comparison of Surrogacy Laws of the U.S. to Other Countries: Should There Be a Uniform Federal Law Permitting Commercial Surrogacy? | |
| Albertus Magnus Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Jill M. Robinson | A “Myriad” of Controversy over the Question of Human Gene Patent Eligibility: A Comparison of the Differing Approaches in the United States and Australia | |
| Scott S. Cramer Award for Outstanding Comment in International Transactional Law | Yang Wang | Incorporating the Third Branch of Government into U.S. National Security Review of Foreign Investment | |
| Executive Board 38 Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Amy Westergren | The Data Liberation Movement: Regulation of Clinical Trial Data Sharing in the European Union and the United States | |
| Jordan J. Paust Award for Outstanding Comment in Human Rights Law | Thomas W. White, Jr. | Referendum in Crimea: Developing International Law on “Territorial Realignment” Referendums | |
| 37th Anniversary Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Li Yi | Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Fracking: What Shale China Do? | |
| Mr. and Mrs. James W. Skelton, Jr. Award for Outstanding Comment in International Energy Law | Jackie Zhong | Red Gold: The Legal Framework Governing Foreign Investments in China’s Oil Industry | |
| 2013–2014 | Award | Recipient | Comment Title |
| Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP Award for Outstanding Comment in International Resource Law | Pierce Cox | Electricity and Natural Gas in India: An Opportunity for India’s National Oil Companies | |
| Jordan J. Paust Award for Outstanding Comment in Human Rights Law | Juan Carlos de las Cuevas | Exceptional Measures Call for Exceptional Times: The Permissibility under International Law of Humanitarian Intervention to Protect a People’s Right to Self-Determination | |
| James W. Skelton Jr., Award for Outstanding Comment in Public International Law | Courtney Giles | International Data Privacy Laws: A Comparison of Approaches in India and Brazil | |
| Executive Board 36 Award for Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law | Philip MacFarlane | Convergence or Competition? U.S. and Chinese Investment Treaties in Latin America | |
| Billie L. Wilson Memorial Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Amanda Pesonen | Encouraging Work-Family Balance to Correct Gender Imbalance: A Comparison of the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Iceland Act on Maternity/Paternity and Parental Leave | |
| Marissa and Antroy Arreola Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Stephen Small | Bitcoin: The Napster of Currency | |
| Executive Board 37 Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Brian Srubar | Breaking Bad Policy: Shifting U.S. Counter-Drug Policy, Eliminating Safe Havens, and Facilitating International Cooperation | |
| Executive Board 36 Award for Outstanding Comment in International Law | Bradan T. Thomas | Autonomous Weapon Systems: The Anatomy of Autonomy and the Legality of Lethality |