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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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| The James W. Skelton Award for an Outstanding Comment in International Petroleum Law | Clara Betancourt |
The Legal Impact of Executive Order 13808 on American Companies Servicing Venezuela |
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| The Allyson Li & Paul A. Arnold Award for 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 |
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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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| The James W. Skelton Award for an 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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| The Allyson Li & Paul A. Arnold Award for 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 |
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| 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 |