2019
First place - Amanda McAree, student at George Washington University Law School. McAree received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled "Local Ballot Initiative: Sowing the Seeds to Free the Sow from her Cage."
Second place - Caitlin M. Ens, student at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Ens received $500 for her winning paper entitled "Finding a Middle Ground: Can We Maximize the Welfare of Captive Animals Without Abolishing Zoos and Aquariums?"
Third place - Brennan Foy, student at University of Tennessee College of Law. Foy received a certificate of recognition for his paper entitled "Animal Welfare and India’s Constitution: A Blueprint for the United States and the World."
2018
First place - Katherine E. Wenner, student at Wake Forest University School of Law. Wenner received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled "Pulling the Wool Over Our Eyes: How Inconsistent and Misleading Voluntary Animal Welfare Food Labels are Failing Consumers and Animals."
Second place - Alexandra Monson, student at Emory University School of Law. Monson received $500 for her winning paper entitled "A Case for Animal Welfare Act (AWA) Regulation of Captive Hunt Facilities."
Third place - Mahalia Kahsay, student at University of Michigan. Kahsay received a certificate of recognition for her paper entitled "Steaks, Syringes, and Silence: How Freedom of Speech and Expression Restrictions Keep Animal Abuses Hidden and Stifle Animal Welfare Activism in Europe and the United States.".
2017
First place - Allison K. Athens, student at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Athens received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled "Stepping up for Horses: In the Absence of Strong Federal Regulations, Can California End Institutionalized Abuse?"
Second place - Ann Linder, student of Stanford law School. Linder received $500 for her winning paper entitled "The Black Man's Dog: The Social Context of Breed Specific Legislation."
2016
First place - Laura Beth Jackson, student at Emory University School of Law. Jackson received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled "Giant Injustice: The Illegality of Elephants in Captivity."
Second place - Erin Brady, student at University of Texas School of Law. Brady received $500 for her winning paper entitled "Fearsome and Fragile: The Paradox Challenging Shark Conservation Law."
2015
First place - Ann Linder, student at Stanford Law School. Linder received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled "Mens Rea and McKittrick: The Unraveling of the Endangered Species Act."
Second place - Sarah Lukas, student at Southern Illinois University School of Law. Lukas received $500.for her winning paper entitled "Punish the Deed, Not the Breed."
2014
First place - Alison Jane Trejo, student at Nova Southeastern University Broad Law Center. Trejo received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled "Killer Soup: The Brutality of Shark Finning and the Wildly Profitable Shark Fin Industry."
Second place - Heidi Mehaffey, student at Nova Southeastern University Broad Law Center. Mehaffey received $500 for her winning paper entitled "A Comparative Analysis of United States and European Farming Standards: How the U.S. Grossly Disregards the Quality of Life of Farm Pigs and the Need for Amended USDA Federal Guidelines."
2013
First place - Kristina Fretwell, student at California Western School of Law, expected graduation December 2013. Fretwell received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled “Death by Dog Food: A Critical Examination of Pet Food Regulation in the United States."
Second place - Larissa Liebmann, May 2013 graduate of the American University Washington College of Law. Liebmann received $500 for her winning paper entitled "Fraud And First Amendment Protections Of False Speech: How U.S. V. Alvarez Impacts Constitutional Challenges To Ag-Gag Laws."
2012
First place - Nicole Pakiz, student at Vermont Law School, graduation expected in 2012. Pakiz received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled “Why The ALI Should Redraft The Animal-Cruelty Provision Of The Model Penal Code."
Second place - Caitlin Giaimo, student at Columbia Law School, expected graduation in May 2013. Giaimo received $500 for her winning paper entitled "Caged Speech: The Agricultural Industry’s Gag Legislation And Its Implications For Investigative Journalism."
2011
First place - Véronique Jarrell-King, student at Vermont Law School, graduation expected in 2012. Jarrell-King received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled “Wildlife, Water Quality And The Public Trust Doctrine: A Means Of Enforcing Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Plans."
Second place - Tabitha Nicole Mitchell, student at University of Maryland School of Law, graduation expected in 2011. Mitchell received $500 for her winning paper entitled "Cage-Free, Free-Range, Organic? Why Animal Welfare Depends On A New Government Labeling Scheme."
2010
First place - Lesley Peterson, student at Brooklyn Law School, graduation expected in 2011. Peterson received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled “Talkin' Bout A Humane Revolution: New Standards For Farming Practices And How They Could Change International Trade As We Know It.”
Second place - Dana Marie Pannella, student at Case Western University School of Law, graduation expected in 2011. Pannella received $500 for her winning paper entitled "Animals Are Property: The Violation of Soldiers’ Rights to Strays in Iraq."
2009
First place - Allison L. Westfahl Kong, student at New York University Law School, graduation expected in 2010. Kong received $1,000 for her winning paper entitled “Improving the Protection of Species Endangered in the United States by Means of a Revision of the Distinct Population Segment (DPS) Policy.”
Second place - Andra Waniek, recent graduate of Brooklyn Law School. Waniek received $500 for her winning paper entitled “Protecting Woman's Best Friend from Family Violence: Proposal for a Model Statute Including Animals in Protective Orders.”
2008
First place - Laurel McNeill, student at Hofstra University School of Law, graduation expected in 2010. McNeill received $500 for her winning paper entitled “Giant Steps: The African Elephant and the United States’ Effect on The Survival of The Species.”
Second place - Rachel Wechsler, student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, graduation expected in 2009. Wechsler received a certificate of recognition for her paper entitled "Blood on the Hands of the Federal Government: Affirmative Steps It Has Taken That Promote Animal Cruelty."
Third place - Deborah Dubow Press, student at Cornell Law School, graduation expected in 2009. Press received a certificate of recognition for her paper.
