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2026

The Addison Brown Prize in Private International or Maritime Law

The Animal Law & Policy Program Writing Prize

The Center on the Legal Profession Paper Prize

The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Bankruptcy and Corporate Law

  • Daniel Rosenblatt, “Holding Company Liability After Bank Failure: The Case of Silicon Valley Bank”

The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Constitutional Law and Equal Justice Under Law

The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Environmental Law

The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Family Law

The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Intellectual Property, Technology, and Law

The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Legal History

  • Morgan Breene, “‘A misnomer for an open roadstead’: Imagining Port Infrastructure in the Madras Surf Zone, 1756-1842”

The John Gallup Laylin Prize in Public International Law

The John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics

The Klemens von Klemperer Prize in Resistance

  • Zack Steigerwald Schnall, “A Right to Resist Arrest by Masked or Plainclothes Officers”

The LGBTQ+ Writing Prize

The Mancini Prize in European Law

The Program in Islamic Law Writing Prize

  • Rimsha Saeed, “The Shari’ah Avoidance Canon and Pseudo-Shari’ah: Consequences of Constitutionalizing the Divine”

The Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies Writing Award: Christianity and the Law

  • Kevin Liao, “A Theology of Privacy”
  • David Frisch, “The ‘Estate of Matrimony’: The Early Eighteenth Century Anglican Canon Law of Marriage and the Lost Vocabulary of Legal Status”

The Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies Writing Award: Jewish Law and Society

  • Justus Ahn, “Maimonides and Christianity”

The Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Writing Prize

The Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize

The Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize in Negotiation

The Sidney I. Roberts Prize in Taxation

The Stephen L. Werner Prize in Criminal Justice

The Victor Brudney Prize in Corporate Governance

The Yong K. Kim Prize in East Asian Law

  • Xuejiao (Katniss) Li, “Two-Level Uncertainty: Theorizing Structural Features of Contemporary Export Control Lawfare”
  • Kazuki Yoshii, “Steering Without Severing: Redesigning Antidumping for East Asian China De-Risking”

Previous Winners

  • 2025

    The Addison Brown Prize

    • David von der Thannen, LL.M. 2025 for “The ‘End of History’ and International Arbitration. An Empirical Study on the Civil vs. Common Law Divide”

    The Animal Law & Policy Program Prize

    • Lla Anderson, J.D. 2027 for “BaMoozled: The Making and Mzilking of Mammy”
    • Samantha Goerger, J.D. 2025 for “For the Benefit of All the People: Combating factory farm pollution with Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment”
    • Derek Simshauser, J.D. 2025 for “State Bans on Cell-Cultivated Meat and the Dormant Commerce Clause”

    The Victor Brudney Prize

    • Raffaele Felicetti, S.J.D. for “Is Pass-Through Voting a Desirable Way to Limit BlackRock’s Influence On Social Issues?”
    • Ryan Frant, J.D. 2026 for “Contract and Equity After DGCL 122(18)”

    The Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize

    • Hayden Davis, J.D. 2025 for “Protecting Mass Arbitration”

    The Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize

    • Rama Hyeweon Kim, S.J.D. 2025 for “The Social Legal Thought of the Only Feminist Lawyer in South Korea, 1952-1972”
    • Laurence Li, LL.M. 2025 for “‘Foreign Adversary’ in U.S. Federal Courts”

    The John Gallup Laylin Prize

    • Sagnik Das, S.J.D. for “The Humanitarian Lawyers”

    The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Paper Prize

    • Talia Wyschogrod, J.D. 2025 for “‘From Inside the House’: How Big Law Presents Its Own Greatest Challenge to the Billable Hour System”

    The LGBTQ+ Writing Prize

    • Mike Winterwerp, LL.M. 2025 for “Modern Family Structures: Legal Multiparenthood in the U.S. and the Netherlands”

    The Mancini Prize

    • Hildur Hjoervar, LL.M. 2025 for “Stone Soup Constitutionalization: The Role of International Courts in the Constitutionalization of International Organizations Through the Eyes of the World’s Smallest International Court”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Bankruptcy

    • Louis Noirault, LL.M. 2025 for “Private Credit Goes Public”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Constitutional Law and Equal Justice Under Law

    • Kiran Hampton, J.D. 2025 for “Fighting Words at the Founding”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Environmental Law

    • Antoine Beaury, LL.M. 2025 for “Incorporating ESG in CEO Pay: Compliance and Trends Among French CAC 40 Firms”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Family Law

    • Tamara Shamir, J.D. 2025 for “The Louisiana Human Embryo Statute: The First and Only State Law Granting Legal Personhood to Frozen Embryos”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Legal History

    • Max Kuhelj Bugaric, J.D. 2027 for “Raphael Fulgosius on Just War: Papal Adjudication of Conflicts and War as Judgment”

    The John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics

    • Roshana Ching, LL.M. 2025 for “Civil Litigation: Too Much, Too Little or Just Right?”

    The Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize

    • Tian Ci Torsten Cheong, LL.M. 2025 for “Expressing Fiduciary Law”
    • David Frisch, J.D. 2026 for “What We Owe Our Property: Towards A Better Model of Fiduciary Parenthood”

    The Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies Writing Award: Christianity and the Law Title

    • Benjamin Holbrook, J.D. 2026 for “The Law in Paul’s Letter to the Romans”
    • James Pennell, J.D. 2025 for “From Synderesis to Specific Performance: Conscience and the Architecture of Equity”

    The Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies Writing Award: Jewish Law and Society

    • Shanee Kay, J.D. 2026 for “Chasing Just and Fair Resolutions in Holocaust Art Restitution Claims”
    • Esther Pomerantz, J.D. 2025 for “The Herem of Rabbi Gershom: Protecting Women’s Rights through Legal Procedure”

    The Writing Prize of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Title

    • Arash Abbas, J.D. 2026 for “Resisting Repression: How the PTI Transformed Authoritarian Election Interference into Democratic Momentum”

    The Sidney I. Roberts Prize Fund

    • Audrey Cheng, J.D. 2025 for “Toward Doctrinal Stability: Addressing Judicial Discontent in the Tax Anti-Injunction Act”
    • Richard Licheng Hua, J.D. 2025 for “Taxation of Mining Cryptocurrencies”

    The Klemens von Klemperer Prize

    • Connor Morgan, J.D. 2025 for “A Constitutional Challenge to President Trump’s Assault on the Civil Service: The Due Process Clause as a Limit on the Removal Power”

    The Stephen L. Werner Prize

    • Tom Zur, S.J.D. for “Early Isn’t Always Better: Experimental Evidence on the Deterrent Effect of Delayed Enforcement”
  • 2024

    The Addison Brown Prize

    • Austin Fullmer, J.D. 2024 for “Of Duty and Distress: Addressing Sea Slavery through the Duty to Render Assistance”

    The Animal Law & Policy Program Prize

    • Shashank Vura, J.D. 2024 for “Living Ancestral Beings: Ecological Lessons from First Law and Sawfish”

    The Victor Brudney Prize

    • Anmar Al Ghadhanfari, LL.M. 2024 for “Twenty Years of Data on the Information Covenant and the Bringdown Condition in M&A Agreements”
    • Leeor Ofer, S.J.D. for “Granting Favors: Insider-Driven Corporate Philanthropy”

    The Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize

    • Nicolas Parra, S.J.D. for “A Road Not Taken in Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mary Parker Follett and the Emergence of Proto-ADR”

    The Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize

    • Chun Wing Cheung, LL.M. 2024 for “The Continued Experimentation with the Implementation of the ‘One Country, Two Systems’: An Analysis of the Extraterritoriality of the Hong Kong National Security Law”
    • Monica Wang, J.D. 2024 for “De-Risking U.S.-China Climate Collaboration: The Impact of Enhanced CFIUS Review on Chinese Investment in U.S. Climate Tech”

    The John Gallup Laylin Prize

    • Hannah Sweeney, J.D. 2024 for “Gender Equality and State Responsibility: The Discriminatory Treatment of CEDAW”

    The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Paper Prize

    • Noah Eckberg, J.D. 2024 for “Death by 1,000 Pages: The Origins, Entrenching Forces, and Impacts of the 1L Workload”

    The LGBTQ+ Writing Prize

    • Rachel Olick-Gibson, J.D. 2025 for “Gender-Affirming Care & Interstate Conflict: Tools for Combatting Territorial and Extraterritorial Enforcement”

    The Mancini Prize

    • Tim Horvat, LL.M. 2024 for “Comparative Political Economy of Business Freedom in the United States and the European Union”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Bankruptcy

    • Forrest Lin, J.D. 2024 for “Contractual Innovation and Market Response: The Evolving Dynamics of Liability Management in the Leveraged Loan Market”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Constitutional Law and Equal Justice Under Law

    • Krista Stapleford, J.D. 2024 for “Recovering the Lost Meaning of the FTCA’s ‘Discretionary Function’ Exception”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Environmental Law

    • Benjamin Rolsma, J.D. 2024 for “Environmental Law as Emergency: The Transformation of Federal Power Act § 202(c)”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Family Law

    • Juan Infante, J.D. 2025 for “Mapping the Abortion Mosaic: A Dataset of State-Level Abortion Regulations in the Pre- and Post-Dobbs Era”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Intellectual Property

    • Matthew Chun, J.D. 2024 for “Generative AI and the Death of Drug Repurposing”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Law and Technology

    • Maarten Herbosch, LL.M. 2024 for “Liability for Artificial Intelligence: Caught Between Super-human Expectations and Human Error Rates?”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Legal History

    • Julia Hammond, J.D. 2024 for “From Comprehensive Planning to Piecemeal Zoning Reform: A Story of Land Use in Connecticut”

    The John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics

    • Samuel Blackman, LL.M. 2024 for “Taxation and Risk-Taking: Solving New Zealand’s Foreign Investment Fund Liquidity Problem with a Retrospective Capital Gains Tax”
    • Zhiwen Chen, J.D. 2024 for “Income Taxation and Relative Income Concerns: Equity Implications”

    The Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize

    • Wei Xuan Timothy Chan, LL.M. 2024 for “Property and Conventionalism: A Humean Theory of Exclusionary Norms”

    The Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies Writing Award: Christianity and the Law Title

    • Brandon Sharp, J.D. 2024 for “Service in Two Cities: Biblical Guideposts for a Christian Lawyer Serving in Government”

    The Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies Writing Award: Jewish Law and Society

    • Jonathan Frieden, J.D. 2024 for “From Passover to Property Rights: Reframing the Ownership Question in the Shareholder/Stakeholder Debate”

    The Program in Islamic Law Writing Prize

    • Hacer Berra Akcan, J.D. 2024 for “Text, Image, and Ideology: Depictions of Law Throughout Indian Art History”

    The Writing Prize of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Title

    • Lorenz Dantes, LL.M. 2024 for “Using Islamic Law Principles as a Basis for a Migrant Worker’s Right to Diplomatic Asylum in ‘Kafala’ Countries”

    The Sidney I. Roberts Prize Fund

    • Alexander Johnson, J.D. 2024 for “Hybrid Rights and Taxation”

    The Klemens von Klemperer Prize

    • Laila Ujayli, J.D. 2024 for “The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee”

    The Stephen L. Werner Prize

    • Avery Farmer, J.D. 2024 for “Deceiving the Disadvantaged”
  • 2023

    The Addison Brown Prize

    • Nicole Bredariol, LL.M. 2023 for “Maritime Cybercrime: A Modern-Day Pirate Radio”
    • Jessica Graham, J.D. 2023 for “Every Piece of Jewelry Tells a Story: Modern Techniques for Conflict-Tracking Gold and Diamonds”

    The Animal Law & Policy Program Prize

    • Savannah Bergeron, J.D. 2024 for “It’s Not Easy Being Green: The Food and Drug Administration’s Duties Under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act When Approving New Drugs and Biological Products”
    • Asha Ramakumar, J.D. 2023 for “Towards Interspecies Reproductive Justice: An Ecofeminist Discursive Analysis Exploring the Parallel Reproductive Commodification of Women and Dairy Cows”

    The Victor Brudney Prize

    • Olivier Baum, LL.M. 2023 for “Redemption Mechanism in Poison Pills – A Study with Special Consideration of Twitter’s Poison Pill”
    • Nicholas Rush, J.D. 2023 for “Two Systems, One Stone – Efficiencies in Proxy Plumbing Reform”

    The Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize

    • Suzanna Bobadilla, J.D. 2023 for “Silencing Settlements: The potential backfire effect of banning NDAs within workplace discrimination disputes”

    The Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize

    • Szu Yu Chen, LL.M. 2023 for “The Evolution of Abortion Rights in Taiwan: Towards Rights-Based Framing”
    • Wells Hamilton, J.D. 2023 for “Unwise and Unrestrained: Wang Huning, Modernity, and The Limits of Law”
    • Xuejiao Li, LL.M. 2023 for “Rethinking the Coercive Feature of Economic Sanctions – (Anti) Sanctions Laws and Enforcement in China and Russia”

    The John Gallup Laylin Prize

    • Yue Wu, J.D. 2024 for “Paternalistic Interference: The Principle of Nonintervention in an Age of Global Governance”

    The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession Paper Prize

    • Cameron Thariani, J.D. 2023 for “Restructuring the Verticalization of the Law Firm to Maximize the Accessibility of Legal Services”

    The LGBTQ+ Writing Prize

    • Sean Drohan, J.D. 2023 for “The Right to be Hurt – BDSM Defenses in Case Law and the Model Penal Code”

    The Mancini Prize

    • Johanna Raakel Rahnasto, LL.M. 2023 for “Problems of Identifiability and Sensitivity in Regulating Genetic Data”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Bankruptcy

    • Cameron Thariani, J.D. 2023 for “The Investor-Friendly Legal Regime Underlying Accumulating and Leveraging Advantageous Positioning as an Activist Creditor in a Reorganization”
    • Jason Jia-Xi Wu, J.D. 2023 for “How Do ‘Bankruptcy Grifters’ Destroy Value in Mass Tort Settlements? In re Purdue Pharma as a Bargaining Failure”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Constitutional Law—Separation of Powers, Federalism, and the Fourteenth Amendment

    • Patrick Sullivan, J.D. 2023 for “New Money, Old Statutes: Inflation and Statutory Drift”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Environmental Law

    • Rachel Neuburger, J.D. 2023 for “Power and Politics in the Tennessee Valley”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Equal Justice Under
    Law

    • Thomas Koenig, J.D. 2024 for “From Litigation to Legislation: The Impact of Brown v. Board of Education on the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Family Law

    • Rebecca Gore, LL.M. 2023 for “Rethinking Crime and Punishment: Women Who Kill Their Abusers in South Africa”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Intellectual Property

    • Matthew Chun, J.D. 2024 for “Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery: A New Frontier for Patent Law”

    The Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Legal History

    • Nicholas Gladstone, J.D. 2024 for “The Long March to Loving: State-Level Repeals of Miscegenation Laws, 1948–67”

    The John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics

    • Benjamin Bates, J.D. 2023 for “The Cost of Complying with the SEC’s Regulations for Registered Investment Advisers: Evidence from Revealed Preferences”
    • Tom Zur, S.J.D. for “How Do People Learn from Not Being Caught? An Experimental Investigation of a ‘Non-Occurrence Bias’”

    The Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize

    • Ariella Kahan, J.D. 2024 for “New Paradigms to Analyze Secret Purchases of Property”
    • Jerred Kiss, LL.M. 2023 for “The Quasi-Property Justification for Inducing Breach of Contract: Remedial Implications Under Corrective Justice”

    The Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies Writing Award: Biblical Law

    • William Gelley, LL.M. 2023 for “Correcting Judicial Errors
      in Jewish Law: The Gulf Between Theory and Practice”

    The Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies Writing Award: Judeo-Christian Legal Thought/The Intersection of Faith & Law

    • Michael Snow, J.D. 2023 for “Are Kosher Laws Kosher?”

    The Program in Islamic Law Writing Prize

    • Iman Masmoudi, J.D. 2024 for “The Role of Notaries in the Practice of Islamic Law: ‘Udūl in Late Ottoman Tunisia”

    The Writing Prize of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Title

    • Fady Khoury, S.J.D. for “Constitutional Design in Divided Societies: Historical Formations, Power-Sharing and Courts –The Case of Lebanon”

    The Sidney I. Roberts Prize Fund

    • Joshua Banafsheha, J.D. 2023 for “An Introduction to the Taxation of Financial Instruments”

    The Stephen L. Werner Prize

    • Abraham Cooper, J.D. 2023 for “Seeking History but Seeing Doctrine: A Critique of Kahler v. Kansas