Pritikin Award

The Theodore M. Pritikin Memorial Fund was established to honor Theodore Pritikin, a bright and gifted alumnus who founded the UC Davis Journal of International Law & Policy (JILP). The Fund provides an annual prize for a student writing competition sponsored by the Journal. JILP awards the prize to a student who submits a previously unpublished paper that makes the most significant contribution to legal knowledge in the realm of international law and policy.

CONTACT/QUESTIONS:

Information for the 2025 Pritikin Award Writing Contest

Please scan the QR code to access and fill out the submission form. Please submit entries as a PDF without any identifying information.

Prize amount: $500 scholarship, and will be published in the next volume of the Journal.

Deadline for submission: 11:59 PM on Saturday, May 14, 2025

If you have any questions or concerns, please email ajwillis@ucdavis.edu

QUALIFICATIONS FOR ENTRY:

Entries must be previously unpublished, original works.
Entries must be written by King Hall students (includes LL.M students and JD students).
Entries must be approximately 20 to 30 pages, double spaced, in 12-point font with 1" margins on all sides, on 8.5 x 11" paper, including footnotes/endnotes.
All citations must conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation

MAIN EVALUATION GUIDELINE:

The prize will be awarded to a student who submits a previously unpublished paper that makes the most significant contribution to legal knowledge in the realm of international law & policy. All submissions will be evaluated by a faculty panel based on originality, contribution to legal knowledge, timeliness, strength of writing, and analytical depth.

Past Winners:

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]