PAST WINNING ESSAYS

2009

Winner – Run Aground Again: The Exxon Valdez's Collision with the Supreme Court's Punitive Damages Jurisprudence

2008

Winner – Where Federalism and Globalization Intersect: The Western Climate Initiative as a Model for Cross-Border Collaboration among States and Provinces

2007

Winner – Foreign Affairs Preemption: The Legality of California’s Link with the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme

Finalist – Garamendi's Unspoken Assumptions: Assessing Executive Foreign Affairs Preemption Challenges to State Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Finalist – American Forest v. Environmental Protection Agency - 5th Circuit’s Deadly Sin to Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act; Defenders of Wildlife v. EPA - 9th Circuit’s Redemption; and Salvation from the Supreme Court?

2006

Winner – Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: How to Protect Environmental Standing from a Conservative Supreme Court

Finalist – Recognizing the Limits of Water Rights: Rejecting Takings Claims in Klamath Irrigation District v. United States

Finalist – The Brief and Unexpected Preemption of Hawai‘i’s Humpback Whale Laws: The Authority of the States to Protect Endangered Marine Mammals under the ESA and the MMPA