Past Winners

Past Winners of Pritikin Award

2023-2024 | Alexandra Marsh - Undoing the Historical Misogyny of the 1951 Refugee Convention: Adding Gender as a Sixth Enumerated Category [pdf] & Jessica Brunnenmeyer - The Evolution of UNFCCC and Climate Change Displacement: A Case Study of Conferences of the Parties (COPS) [pdf

2022-2023 | Kari Peterson - A Comparative Analysis of Temporary Protected Status in Colombia and Mexico [pdf]

2021-2022 | Carissa Lee - The Effectiveness of the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act [pdf]

2020-2021 | Vanessa Hofman - Aut Dedere, aut Judicare: U.S. Obligations to Prosecute or Extradite under the Convention against Torture [pdf]

2019-2020 | Delanie Grewe - Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & CEDAW Article 16: An Anti-Essentialist Proposal [pdf]

2017-2018 | Oscar Yang - Surviving International Trade Commission's Section 337 Exclusion Orders [pdf]

2016-2017 | Lexi Airey

2015-2016 | Matthew Kearney - Unless Someone Hears Us: Applying International Criminal Law's Rome Statute as a New Approach to Addressing the Human Rights Abuses against Serbian Roma [pdf]

2014-2015 | India Powell - From Incidental to Instrumental: The Codification of Rape as an International Crime [pdf]

2013-2014 | Erin Huntington - Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment: A Definitional Approach [pdf]

2012-2013 | Jared Wigginton - Large-Scale Land Investment in Africa: An Issue of Self-Help and Self-Determination [pdf]

2011-2012 | Jihan Kahssay - Lessons Learned from Somalia: Returning to a Humanitarian-Based Humanitarian Intervention [pdf]

2010-2011 | Katherine Wang - The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Motivations For Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions [pdf]

2009-2010 | Scott Vignos - Pirate Trials: An Examination of the United States' Non-Refoulement Duties Pursuant to the United Nations Convention Against Torture [pdf]

2008-2009 | Agatha Panday - The Role of International Human Rights Law in WTO Dispute Settlement [pdf]

2007-2008 | Kristy Young - The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and the Foreign Investment and National Securities Act of 2007: A Delicate Balancing Act That Needs Revision [pdf]

2006-2007 | Melinda Luthin - U.S. Enforcement of Foreign Money Judgments and the Need for Reform [pdf]

2005-2006 | Lila Hollman - Children's Rights and Military Recruitment on High School Campuses [pdf]

2004-2005 | Ben Klafter - International Commercial Arbitration as Appellate Review: NAFTA's Chapter 11, Exhaustion of Local Remedies and Res Judicata [pdf]

2003-2004 | James Asa High, Jr. - The Basis for Jurisdiction over U.S. Sex Tourists: An Examination of the Case Against Michael Lewis Clark [pdf]