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CICL ESSAY COMPETITION IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW

The Center for International and Comparative Law offers two student essay awards each academic year for papers on topics in international and comparative law.

University of Baltimore students are invited to submit their papers for the Annual CICL Essay Competition in International and Comparative Law. This competition is open to all students in the University of Baltimore School of Law, Merrick School of Business and Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts.

Papers must be on topics in international or comparative law and may be of any length.  Submissions may include papers already submitted or to be submitted for credit in academic courses.

Papers should be submitted to Ms. Latosha Davis in room AL1006. The deadline for submissions is the last day of classes each spring semester.

Winners:

2023
Audreina Blanding, By Any Means Necessary: An Assessment of the Human Rights Obligations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Relation to the Trafficking of North Korean Women and Girls

2022
Peri Schuster, Stopping Suicide in Maryland’s Correctional Institute for Women: A Human Rights Perspective

2021
Nicholas Richard, The Company You Keep: The Implications of China’s Membership and Activity in the U.N.

2019
Christina Araviakis, Baltimore, You've Got Charm Now How About Equality? The Call for Baltimore City to Join the Nationwide Movement, Cities for CEDAW

 
2018
Konrad Ptaszynski,The Rise of Commercial Space Access: Legislative Measures for Dealing with Space Debris
 
2017
Samuel Draper, Small Island Developing States and Climate Change: A Struggle for Relief Under the Current Framework
 
2016
Nick Meriwether, Das Neuland: Digital Privacy Rights and Mass Surveillance in the European Union

2015
Natalie Krajinovic, Disposal Practices and Epidemics: Why International Regulation of Medical Pollutants is Necessary for the Protection of the Environment
 
2014

James Lilly, The South Ossetia Legal War: Georgia’s Case Against Russia Before the European Court of Human Rights

2013
Maria Surdokas, International Law for American Courts: Why the “American Laws for American Courts” Movement is a Violation of the United States Constitution and Universal Human Rights
 
2012
Amanda Webster, How Wisconsin's Collective Bargaining Restrictions Place the US in Violation of International Labor Laws
 
2011
Nathan Volke, Leaving Neverland: Can America Construct a Comprehensive Preventive Detention Policy That Balances Liberty and Security in a World of Terror?
 
2010
Arezoo Jamshidi, ICSID’s Jurisdictional Jurisprudence: Legitimacy in the Balance
 
2009
Ian Foss, The European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy Expressed Through International Organizations
 
2008
Ryan Webster, Protecting the World with Supply-chain Contracts: The Use of Contracts to Require Compliance with Labor Conditions and Environmental Standards
 
2007
Gillian Flynn, Achieving International Protection of Cultural Property: Proposals for Harmonizing Common Law and Civil Law Approaches
 
2006
David Schaffer, A Comparative Analysis of the Aspirations and Flaws of the French and German Headscarf Cases
 
2005
Gregory M. Garrett, Protection of the Global Commons Requires A New International Convention
 
2004
Michael Morris, Truth in Chemical Weapons Disposal
 
2003
Donna Davis, Preemptive Intervention
 
2002
Amy Mezewski, European Union Controls in United States Mergers
 
2001
Shannon McCormack, Comparative International Taxation
 
2000
Kai-Niklas A. Schneider, Export Controls on Encryption Technologies
 
1999
Michele Kendus, Welfare and Immigration Reform in the Wake of California Proposition 187
 
 
1998
Susan John, Vertical Restraints in the European Union
 
 
1997
Peter Jackman, Adoption of a First-to-File Patent System for the United States
 
 
1996
Sandra M. Aistars-Annus, Russian Foreign Policy and International Law in the New World Order