First Place:  Govind Persad, J.D./Ph.D Student, Stanford Law School
“What Marriage Law can Learn from Citizenship Law (and Vice Versa)”

First Runner Up:  Jane Tanimura, USC School of Law
“A Duty to Protect Female Transgender Inmates from the Obvious and Foreseeable Risk of Sexual Assault”

Second Runner Up:  Ryan Castle, Seattle University School of Law
“The Gay Accent, Gender, and Title VII Employment Discrimination: Adapting to Modern Understandings of Bias in the Workplace”