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.
Previous Winners
(2023–2014)
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
(2013–2005)
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
(2004–1996)
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
