Each year, the current Executive Board gives out awards for Best Candidate and Most Contributing Editor, and also gives out Writing Awards to the Candidates with the best casenotes or comments.

Please see Best CandidateMost Contributing Editor, and Writing Awards to see each year’s winners.

Best Candidate

Recipient

Editorial Board

Year of Award

Georgie Tomalty

Editorial Board 46

2021-2022

Emory Powers

Editorial Board 45

2020–2021

Jennifer Walker

Editorial Board 44

2019–2020

Benjamin Caldwell

Editorial Board 43

2018–2019

Mason Gardner

Editorial Board 42

2017–2018

Chelsea Vernon

Editorial Board 41

2016–2017

Victoria Dessens

Editorial Board 40

2015–2016

Vladi Hennessee

Editorial Board 39

2014–2015

Juan Carlos de las Cuevas

Editorial Board 38

2013–2014

Audrey Huffman

Editorial Board 37

2012–2013

Stephanie Eberhardt

Editorial Board 36

2011–2012

Joseph DeFazio

Editorial Board 35

2010–2011

Zachary Lee

Editorial Board 34

2009–2010

Kelly Brolan

Editorial Board 33

2008–2009

Leslie Schulman

Editorial Board 32

2007–2008

Harve Truskett

Editorial Board 31

2006–2007

Martha Hopkins

Editorial Board 30

2005–2006

Mary Woodard

Editorial Board 29

2004–2005

Jeffrey S. Dietz

Editorial Board 28

2003–2004

Allison Hooker

Editorial Board 27

2002–2003

Carrie Arnett

Editorial Board 26

2001–2002

Thomas C. Graham

Editorial Board 25

2000–2001

Scott J. Sherman

Editorial Board 24

1999–2000

Gretchen Wallrath

Editorial Board 23

1998–1999

Timothy Denker

Editorial Board 22

1997–1998

Monica L. McHam

Editorial Board 21

1996–1997

Stephen Artusi

Editorial Board 20

1995–1996

Gerrie Zhang

Editorial Board 19

1994–1995

Joe Villarreal

Editorial Board 18

1993–1994

Rosemarie Kanusky

Editorial Board 17

1992–1993

Becki Fahle

Editorial Board 16

1991–1992

Todd R. Overton

Editorial Board 15

1990–1991

 

Most Contributing Editor

Recipient

Editor Position

Year of Award

Alan Jeanjacquet

Senior Articles Editor, Editorial Board 45

2021-2022

Haley Kurisky

Candidates Editor, Editorial Board 44

2020–2021

Megan Ali

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 43

2019–2020

Kristin Kluding

Editor in Chief, Editorial Board 42

2018–2019

Dane Rebkowec

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 41

2017–2018

Kalina Dalal

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 40

2016–2017

Li Yi Moneypenny

Candidates Editor, Editorial Board 39

2015–2016

Jennifer Sims

Candidates Editor, Editorial Board 38

2014–2015

Jim Pappenfus

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 37

2013–2014

Courtney Walsh (co-recipient)

Head Casenotes & Comments Editor, Editorial Board 36

2012–2013

Brian Wittpenn (co-recipient)

Senior Articles Editor, Editorial Board 36

2012–2013

Bradford Hendrickson

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 35

2011–2012

David Baluk

Candidates Editor, Editorial Board 34

2010–2011

Benjamin Miller

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 33

2009–2010

Ryan Bardo

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 32

2008–2009

Harve Truskett

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 31

2007–2008

P. Beth Lloyd

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 30

2006–2007

Ashley Garber

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 29

2005–2006

Carlyn Burton

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 28

2004–2005

Allison Hooker

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 27

2003–2004

Kelly Quy

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 26

2002–2003

Mike Ewing

Head Articles Editor, Editorial Board 25

2001–2002

Christopher L. Gadoury

Head Articles Editor, Editorial Board 24

2000–2001

Mohamad Taherzadeh

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 23

1999–2000

Timothy Denker

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 22

1998–1999

Antroy A. Arreola

Editor in Chief, Editorial Board 21

1997–1998

Joedaniel Horne

Editor in Chief, Editorial Board 20

1996–1997

Alan Hall

Research Editor, Editorial Board 19

1995–1996

Laura Erazo De Santos

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 18

1994–1995

Hila J. Alderman

Head Research Editor, Editorial Board 17

1993–1994

Kevin D. Jewell

Head Casenotes & Comments Editor, Editorial Board 16

1992–1993

Michael J. Short

Research Editor, Editorial Board 15

1991–1992

Annette L. Smith

Executive Editor, Editorial Board 14

1990–1991

 

Writing Awards

2021-2022

Award

Recipient

Comment Title

 

The Antroy Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law

Jack Vincent

The Poisoning of Alexei Navalny: How to Deal with Russian Disregard for the Chemical Weapons Convention

 

The James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Human Rights Law

Sarah Smati

Lessons Learned from Past Refugee Crises:  How America Can and Should Protect Afghan Refugees 

 

The Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in International Trade

Alexandria Harris Şavşatlı

White Gold Rush: Conflicts Between Subsurface Rights & Landowner Rights

 

Executive Board 45 Award: Outstanding Comment in Emerging Law

Vanessa Parada

 

Remittances to the Moon and Bitcoin to the Land of the Savior: Can El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Effectively Reduce the Cost of International Remittances?

 

Executive Board 45 Award: Outstanding Comment in Human Rights Law

Arianna Sophia Casso 

Can Transitional Justice be Employed in On-Going Conflicts? – Why the International Community Should Look Towards Reconciliatory Peace Processes to Stop Violence in its Tracks and Create a Sustainable Peace in Mexico

 

Executive Board 45 Award: Outstanding Comment in Immigration Law

Autumn Rayn Brehon 

Detained Immigrants & Disposed Property: A Comment

 

Executive Board 45 Award: Outstanding Comment in Agency Law

Leigh Cummings

The CDC’s Sudden Ban on Dog Importation from 113 Countries: Consequences of Overbroad Agency Action

 

Executive Board 45 Award: Outstanding Comment in U.S.-Mexico Relations

Emily Landry

Mexico’s Litigious Cry for Help: Reducing Arms Trafficking to Mexico

2020–2021

Award

Recipient

Comment Title

 

The Antroy Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law

Miles Fuqua

Lessening the Disparity between Original Owners and Good-Faith Purchasers of Stolen Artwork: The Implementation of a Uniform International Database

 

The James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Human Rights Law

Emory Powers

International Human Rights & Rhetoric: Case Study on Poland and Hungary

 

The Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law

Cassandra Georgantas

Implications of Secondary Sanctions on the Shipping Industry: The Extraterritorial Crunch Reshaping International Trade

 

The Executive Board 44 Award: Outstanding Comment in Emerging Law

Chris Gale

The International Legality of Military Operations in Outer Space, and Available Methods to Respond to Space-Based Aggression

 

The Executive Board 44 Award: Outstanding Comment in Human Rights Law

Stephanie Snyder-Zuansnabar

Compulsory Voting in the United States: How the World Uses Sanctions and How That Can Be Effective Here

 

The Executive Board 44 Award: Outstanding Comment in Space Law

Adam Daigle

A Liability Waiver to End All Liability Waivers: Protecting Low-Earth Orbit Space Tourism (Can a Liability Waiver Fully Protect Tourists or Companies During Civil Litigation in the Event of a Space Tourism Disaster?)

2019–2020

Award

Recipient

Comment Title

 

The Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in U.S.-Mexican Relations

Chelsea Klumpp

Punishing the Persecuted: How the United States’ Use of Mandatory Immigration Detention Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity with Regard to Transgender Asylees from the Northern Triangle

 

The Antroy Arreola Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law

Brooke Bentley

The Inadequacy of International Law to Address Cyber-Attacks in the Age of Election-Meddling

 

The Executive Board 43 Award: Outstanding Comment in International Law

Nikita Westberg

Whether Current Laws and Policies Have Planned Enough to Prevent Unplanned Ship Collision

 

The James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Human Rights Law

Brennan Flannery

The Climate Change-Migration Nexus: Promoting Sustainability in an Effort to Mitigate Environmentally Displaced Persons and Their Vulnerability to Human Trafficking

 

The Executive Board 43 Award: Outstanding Comment in International Human Rights Law

Robert Root

Online Political Discourse in the Digital Age: How to Best Protect Internet Access in an Effort to Promote Political Discourse Within Changing Societies

 

The Executive Board 43 Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law

Emily Lucot

“Recycled in China”: An Examination of the Recycling Systems in the United States and the Effects that China’s Ban on Accepting American Waste Is Having on American Public Health, the Recycling Industry, and Possible Solutions Found in Other Nations

 

The Stephen T. Zamora Award: Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law

Jennifer Walker

International Influence: The Need for Advertising Regulations in Social Media Advertisements

 

The James W. Skelton Award: Outstanding Comment in International Energy Law

Cacique Rich-Martinez

New Trade Deals, New Opportunities

2018–2019

Award

Recipient

Comment Title

 

Stephen T. Zamora Award:
Outstanding Comment in U.S.-Mexican Relations

Jennifer Gardner

Inaction at the Border – An Environmental Market Solution to Safe Water in the Rio Grande

 

Stephen T. Zamora Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Economic Law

Benjamin Caldwell

Avocados from Ecuador: Do the U.S. Importation Regulations Discriminate?

 

James W. Skelton Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Energy Law

Danielle Lam

China’s Struggle for a Sustainable Green Future

 

Walter A. Wright Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Law

Pedro Segura

REDD+ Dead Redemption: Beyond Property Rights as a Panacea for Resisting Carbon Colonialism in International Forest Conservation

 

Antroy A. Arreola Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Law

Michael Drab

Medicare’s International Pricing Index Reimbursement Model and Its Impact on Biosimilars Approved Under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009

 

Marissa Weitzner Arreola Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Law

Kate Schorken

Restitution Claims of Nazi-Expropriated Art: Are Courts Re-Writing History?

2017–2018

Award

Recipient

Comment Title

 

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

 

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

 

Walter A. Wright Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Law

Teri Russel

#TwitterinPolitics: How the use of Social Media Could Become Customary International Law

 

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

 

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

 

James W. Skelton Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Petroleum Law

Clara Betancourt

The Legal Impact of Executive Order 13808 on American Companies Servicing Venezuela

 

Allyson Li & Paul A. Arnold Award:
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

2016–2017

Award

Recipient

Comment Title

 

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?

 

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

 

Walter A. Wright Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Law

Tiffany Li

Leftover Men! An Aftermath of China’s One-Child Policy

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

James W. Skelton Award:
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

 

Allyson Li & Paul A. Arnold Award:
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

2015–2016

Award

Recipient

Comment Title

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Gus Vlahadamis Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Law

Margaret Webber

Lifting the Sanctions Against Iran: Business Implications for the United States and European Union

 

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?

 

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?

 

Antroy Arreola Award:
Outstanding Comment in International Law

Victoria Dessens

Dispute Settlement Within the WTO and MERCOSUR: Who Can Get Brazil Under Control?

 

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

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