AILR National Writing Competition

2024-2025 AILR National Writing Competition Results

The American Indian Law Review congratulates the winners of its 2024-2025 national writing competition:

1st place ($1,500) – Sadie Pate, Harvard Law School
“Ward, Trust, or Sovereign: The Impact of Metaphor in Supreme Court Indian Law Jurisprudence”

2nd place ($750) – Taylor Jeanfreau, BYU Law School
“‘Native Americans and Climate Change Migration: Needed Changes to the Voluntary Community-Driven Relocation Program”

3rd place ($400) – Leann Pham,  Yale Law School
“NAGPRA: Human Rights Intentions and Property Law Applications”

The AILR also recognizes two other entrants who finished among the competition's five finalists:

Eugene C. [E.C.] Bell,  American University Washington College of Law
“Negligent Contemptuous Homicide: Denominational Liability for Negligent Homicide in the Deaths of Native Boarding School Students”

Isabelle Rupe, University of Idaho College of Law
“From Commerce to Culture: Addressing Copyright Law’s Gaps in Protecting Native American Traditions”

This Year's Finalist Round Judges

The editors of the American Indian Law Review also wish to express their appreciation to the distinguished individuals who took part in judging this year's competition finalists:

Brian Candelaria
Staff Attorney, Oklahoma Indian Legal Services

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law and Professor of American Culture,
University of Michigan Law School

Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely
Professor of Law & Associate Dean, Faculty
University of Idaho College of Law