2022 Winners

1st PLACE WINNER

Yucheng (Renee) Jiang

Fordham University School of Law, May 2022

Renee Jiang graduated from Fordham University School of Law in May 2022, where she was a Notes and Articles Editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal and received the Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award, magna cum laude. Her legal interests include racial and gender equality, labor and employment, and anti-discrimination law. Prior to law school, she worked as Digital Marketing Manager for the New York Philharmonic. She holds an M.A. from New York University and a B.A. from the University of Huddersfield.

Reasonable Accommodation and Disparate Impact: Clean Shave Policy Discrimination in Today’s Workplace

2nd PLACE WINNER

Sarah Nathan

Yale Law School, May 2023

Sarah Nathan is a third-year law student at Yale Law School. Sarah is from Toledo, Ohio, and she received her B.A. in Environmental Studies and Community & Justice Studies from Allegheny College in 2018. During her time in law school, Sarah has focused her studies on labor and employment law and immigration law. She draws motivation for her scholarship from her work with undocumented clients in the New Haven community, which she does through Yale Law School’s HAVEN Medical-Legal Partnership. After law school, Sarah hopes to continue working on issues at the intersection of labor and employment and immigration, particularly the underenforcement of labor laws in immigrant-dominated industries.

Arbitration Agreements and the Enforcement of Federal Labor Laws

3rd PLACE WINNER

Tim Gordon

Fordham University, School of Law, May 2023

Tim is beginning his third year of law school at Fordham Law where he is a member of the Fordham Law Review, a Teaching Assistant for Legal Writing & Research, Co-President of the Fordham Business & Law Association, and a competitor for the Dispute Resolution Society. Prior to law school, he graduated with a degree in Political Science from Boston College where he competed as an NCAA Division I Diver and worked as a litigation paralegal.

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