Winners


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.