Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Competition: Recipients
2023
Shunhe Wang, Yale Law School, “Check Your [Deliberative Process] Privilege—Revealing the Foibles of FOIA’s Framing via a Ride into the Sunset/Retention Mismatch”
2022
Laura Stanley, The George Washington University Law School
"Supervising Guantanamo Tribunals: Appointments Clause Challenges After Arthrex"
2021
Adira Levine, Harvard University
"FOIA Disclosure and the Supreme Court"
2020
Johnathan Hall, Duke Law School
"The Gorsuch Test: Gundy v. United States, Limiting the Administrative State, the Future of Nondelegation"
2019
Benjamin Miller-Gootnick
“Boundaries of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act"
2018
David Hahn, University of Minnesota Law School,
"Late for an Appointment: Balancing Impartiality and Accountability in the IRS Office of Appeals"
2017
Laura Dolbow, Vanderbilt University Law School, “Appropriating Agencies: How Congress Leverages Legislative History to Direct Agency Action”
2016
Gugandeep Kaur, Boston University School of Law,“Indian Pharmaceutical Industry’s Compliance Problems with the United States Food and Drug Administration and Proposed Solutions”
2015
Brian T. Apel, University of Michigan Law School, Class of 2016, “An Administrative Meter Maid: Using Inter Partes Review and Post-Grant Review to Curb Exclusivity Parking Via the Failure to Market Provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act.
2014
Matthew P. Downer, Vanderbilt University Law School, “Tentative Interpretations: The Abracadabra of Administrative Rulemaking and the End of Alaska Hunters”
2013
Taylor M. Owings, Vanderbilt University Law School, Identifying a Maverick: When Antitrust Law Should Protect a Low-Cost Competitor
2012
Daniel Kazhdan, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law,Wyeth and PLIVA: The Law of Inadequate Drug Labeling
2011
Aaron Moore,American University Washington College of Law, "Preserving the Ark of Our Safety: How a Stronger Administrative Approach Could Save Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act"
2010
Jasmine C. Hites, University of Oregon School of Law, "NERC: Nuked by Constitutional Flaw?"
2009
Connor Raso, Yale Law School, "Do Agencies Use Guidance Documents to Avoid Presidential Control?"
2008
Karen Weathersbee, University of Baltimore School of Law,"Quarantine: Its Use and Limitations"
2007
Scott Keller, University of Texas School of Law, "Expanding Federalism Clear Statement Canons Instead of Chevron Step Zero"
2006
Kari Bergeron, Southern University Law Center, "Singing the Blues: Muddy Waters and the Scope of Federal Authority Over Isolated, Inland Wetlands under the Clean Water Act"