First Place:  Viktoriya Kruglyak, St. John’s University School of Law
“The Need for Guidance for the USCIS: The Aftermath of DOMA and its Effect on Immigration”

Runner Up: Alexi Machek Velez, Rutgers School of Law
“On Why Courts Cannot Grasp ‘Gender’: Conflation, Assumption, and the Faulty Binary Paradigm that Underscores it All”