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The Law Review is excited to announce that we will begin accepting submissions again on Thursday, August 1, 2013. Please see our submissions page for more information.

Congratulations to the following members of the Law Review on their Convocation Awards!

University Graduation Prize
to the student with the highest academic average based on five semesters
Subash Iyer

Law Review Alumni Association Award
to the student with the second-highest academic average based on five semesters
Lori Brooke Day

Law Review Alumni Association Award
to the student with the third-highest academic average based on five semesters
Matthew Kelly

Frank H. Sommer Memorial Award
for outstanding scholarship, character, and professional activities
Lori Brooke Day & Subash Iyer

Benjamin F. Butler Memorial Award
for unusual distinction in scholarship, character, and professional activities
Austin King & Thomas Sosnowski

Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize
for outstanding scholarship and character
Yotam Barkai & Yan Cao

George P. Foulk Memorial Award
for outstanding sincerity and distinguished scholarship
Julia Torti

Vanderbilt Medals
for outstanding contributions to NYU School of Law
Ashley Harrington & Randall Johnston

Administrative Law Prize
to the students who have demonstrated excellence in the field of administrative law
Colleen Lee & Thomas Sosnowski

Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association (BLAPA)
Kim Barry ’98 Memorial Graduation Prize
to a member of APALSA, BALSA, LALSA, MELSA, MULSA, or SALSA who has demonstrated a commitment to international and human rights work and exhibits academic excellence in the best tradition of Kim Barry
Anthony Enriquez

Daniel G. Collins Prize
to the member of the graduating class who has demonstrated excellence in the area of contract law
Vanessa Richardson

David Friedman Memorial Award
for outstanding achievement in evidence
Nitika Gupta

Howard Greenberger Award
for outstanding achievement in the area of comparative law
David Willard

Law and Economics Prize
to a student who has demonstrated excellence in the area of law and economics
Tristan Favro

Judge Abraham Lieberman Award
for outstanding scholarship in the area of criminal law
Yotam Barkai

Robert B. McKay Prize in Constitutional Law
to recognize a student who has demonstrated excellence in constitutional law throughout his or her years at NYU School of Law
Yotam Barkai & Subash Iyer

Gary E. Moncrieffe Award
to the outstanding student in the area of racism and the law
Natasha Silber

Weinfeld Prize for Scholarship in Procedure and Courts
designated by the dean for distinguished scholarship in the area of federal courts, civil procedure, and practice, evidence, and/or trial practice
Kade Olsen & Zachary Savage

For more information and a full list of awards, please see http://www.law.nyu.edu/students/studentaffairs/convocation/convocationaw…

We congratulate N.Y.U. Law Review members Yotam Barkai, Zoey Orol, and Theresa Troupson for advancing to the Final Round of the Orison S. Marden Moot Court Competition. The final arguments will take place on Monday, April 8 at 5pm in Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall. The final panel will include Judge Albert Diaz of the Fourth Circuit, Judge Raymond Kethledge of the Sixth Circuit and Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York. The Marden Competition is hosted by the NYU Law Moot Court Board.

N.Y.U. Law Review members Mat Ahn (Executive Editor ’14), Andrew Janet (Executive Editor ’14), and Jonathan Yehuda (Notes Editor ’13) starred in this year’s production of the Law Review, which ran from April 3-6, 2013. Ankur Mandhania (Articles Editor ’14) was a member of the crew for the show.

The Law Revue is an annual musical parody about life at NYU School of Law, and it is written, produced, and performed entirely by law students. Each year the show is attended by more than 1,500 students, alumni, faculty, and friends. For photos of the performance: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151494018233926.1073741833.2.

We are proud to announce the winners of the annual journal awards!

Paul D. Kaufman Memorial Award
The graduating student who has written the most outstanding note for the Law Review

• Yotam Barkai, The Child Paradox in First Amendment Doctrine. Read it here: http://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-87-number-5/child-paradox-firs…

Judge Rose L. & Herbert Rubin Prize
The graduating student who has written the most outstanding note for the Law Review in International, Commercial, or Public Law

• Sean Childers, Discrimination During Traffic Stops: How an Economic Account Justifying Racial Profiling Falls Short. Read it here: http://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-87-number-4/discrimination-dur…
• Zoey F. Orol, Reading the Early American Legal Profession: A Study of the First American Law Review. Read it here: http://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-87-number-5/reading-early-amer…

Edmond Cahn Award
A third-year editor other than a senior editor who has contributed to the Law Review in an outstanding fashion

• Trang (Mae) Nguyen

Morton Geller Award
A third-year editor other than a senior editor who has contributed to the Law Review in an outstanding fashion

• Julie Mecca
• Abigail Nurse

Sheila Baynes (Articles Editor ’14) has been selected as one of the Ford Foundation Fellows. She will be working at the Environmental Defense Fund — Air and Land, Water and Wildlife in Boulder, Colorado this summer.

“The students receiving the Ford Fellowship represent the high caliber of public interest talent at NYU School of Law,” said Denise Tomasini-Joshi, assistant dean for public service at the Public Interest Law Center. “They honor NYU’s tradition of public service and rigorous scholarship and will undoubtedly use their experience with the Ford Fellowship as a springboard to a career making positive change.”

To read more: http://www.law.nyu.edu/news/FORD_FOUNDATION_NAMES_25_NYU_LAW_FELLOWS_2013

The N.Y.U. Law Review is proud to announce the 2013-2014 Editorial Board. The new masthead can be viewed here.

Professor Vinay Harpalani (Articles Editor ’09) will be speaking at NYU Law School on February 12 at 6:30 pm in VH206, as part of the NYU BALSA Political Action Speaker Series. The presentation will cover his new article, “Diversity Within Racial Groups and the Constitutionality of Race-Conscious Admissions,” which was just published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

This article examines the key issues in Fisher v. Texas, the case about race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), which the U.S. Supreme Court heard on October 10. He argues that UT can constitutionally justify its race-conscious admissions policy as a means of attaining diversity WITHIN racial groups, which is part of the compelling interest articulated in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003). His article was cited in the Supreme Court amicus brief of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) in Fisher, and UT also used his argument about diversity within racial groups in its Supreme Court brief and at oral argument.

The full article is available for download here.

He also has a brief follow-up essay, entitled “Fisher’s Fishing Expedition,” which will soon be published in Heightened Scrutiny, the online supplement to the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.  The current draft of that essay, which focused on the October 10, 2012 oral arguments in Fisher v. Texas, is available here.

The N.Y.U. Law Review will begin accepting submissions on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. We will only accept submissions through Scholastica. We will no longer accept submissions through ExpressO, and we do not accept submissions by email.

Institutions can create accounts to pay for their authors’ submissions to Scholastica, so authors affiliated with law schools can have the same payment experience they have had on ExpressO. Scholastica is committed to ensuring that authors are able to submit articles regardless of institutional support and will consider requests for fee waivers and other accommodations at this email address. Additional information about Scholastica is available at their site. Additional information about the Law Review’s submission procedures is available here.

Families for Freedom, in collaboration with the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic, has published a new report titled, “Uncovering USBP: Bonus Programs for United States Border Patrol Agents and the Arrest of Lawfully Present Individuals.” The report “reveals the existence of various incentive programs provided to Border Patrol agents in their quest to apprehend individuals of color, many of whom have legal status.”

Natasha Rivera Silber, an Articles Editor, is one of the primary authors of this report, and Anthony Enriquez, our Senior Notes Editor, contributed to the FOIA proceedings which obtained the data the report is based on.

You can read the report here: http://familiesforfreedom.org/resources/families-freedom-new-report…