ACS Announces Winners of Richard D. Cudahy Competition, Other Awards At 2008 National Convention
The American Constitution Society announced winners of its Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition, National Student Writing Competition, the Constance Baker Motley National Moot Court Competition, and a number of chapter awards at its annual convention this weekend in Washington, D.C. The Convention drew nearly 1,000 attendees across the nation and focused on the most important legal and public policy issues that a new administration is likely to face.
The awards and winners are: Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition
The awards and winners are: Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition
- Peter L. Strauss, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, won the Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law with his paper Overseer, or ‘The Decider’? The President in Administrative Law. The competition is named for Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Cudahy, who is known for his keen grasp of legal doctrine and appreciation of the public impact of doctrinal and institutional choices. This award, sponsored by Judge Cudahy’s former law clerks, rewards those qualities as demonstrated in the writing of others. The honor includes a cash prize of $3,000.
- Second place was awarded to Lisa Schultz Bressman, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, for her article Procedures as Politics in Administrative Law, and third place was awarded to Kristina B. Daugirdas, an attorney-advisor with the Department of State and former law clerk for D.C. Circuit Judge Stephen Williams, for her paper International Delegations and Administrative Law. The judges for this year’s competition were the Honorable David Hamilton, the Honorable Patricia M. Wald, Jeffrey P. Kehne, Allison Zieve, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Cynthia Farina and William D. Henderson.
National Student Writing Competition
- Jon Sherman, a graduating third-year student at Columbia Law School, won ACS’s fourth annual National Student Writing Competition with his paper A Person Otherwise Innocent: Policing Entrapment in Preventative, Undercover Counterterrorism Investigations. Co-sponsored with the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, this year’s topic was “Liberty, Security and Democracy in Our Evolving Society.” Papers were judged on their effective use, analysis and expansion of progressive legal scholarship. Sherman’s paper will be published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
- Runners up included Richard Goldman, a student at the George Washington University School of Law, who wrote Making National Security Letters Effective and Constitutional, and Matthew Kudzin, a graduating third-year student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, who wrote ‘Academic Freedom’ As a Barrier to Academic Freedom.
Constance Baker Motley National Moot Court Competition
- Cash Parker and Patrick Thiessen of the University of Colorado Law School won the Constance Baker Motley National Moot Court Competition. 54 teams from 34 schools competed, with the final round at ACS’s National Convention. This year’s topic addressed state elections and whether they help to ensure a fair and independent judiciary.
- Sarah London and Marta Porwit of UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law are the runners up. The competition was sponsored by Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP.
Lawyer Chapter Awards
ACS recognized several of its 30 lawyer chapters with the following awards:
- Chapter of the Year: Northeast Ohio Lawyer Chapter. This award is given to the ACS chapter that has shown the greatest overall strength in meeting ACS’s mission and goals.
- Diversity Award: Bay Area Lawyer Chapter. This award is given to the ACS chapter that has made the greatest strides in increasing diversity amongst its membership and in its programming.
- Networking Award: Dallas Lawyer Chapter. This award is given to the ACS chapter with the highest membership percentage increase over the past year.
Student Chapter Awards
ACS recognized a number of its 160-plus student chapters with the following awards:
- Chapters of the Year: University of Houston Center and Yale Law School.
- Network Building Award for Continuing Commitment to Diversity: The University of Alabama School of Law, Columbia Law School, University of South Carolina School of Law.
- Network Building Award Special Recognition for Membership: Howard University School of Law
- Network Building Award for Largest Membership: University of Chicago Law School
- Network Building Award Special Recognition for Membership: Stanford Law School
- Network Building Award Special Recognition for Programming: Quinnipiac University School of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, UCLA School of Law, Columbia Law School, Howard University School of Law, Seattle University School of Law, Duke University School of Law, the George Washington Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, Georgetown Law School, Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford Law School.
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