{"id":691,"date":"2012-05-11T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/?p=691"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:46:41","slug":"research-prize-winners-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2012\/05\/11\/research-prize-winners-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Research prize winners, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cornell Law Library is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of The Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research<\/a>:<\/p>\n

First Place:\u00a0Annexation of the Jury\u2019s Role in Res Judicata Disputes: The Silent Migration from Question of Fact to Question of Law,<\/em> by Steven Madrid, 2L<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Steven Madrid focused his research on two hundred years of case law to uncover an historical development not currently identified in any secondary source.\u00a0 Discerning the silent migration of the jury\u2019s role in res judicata disputes from question of fact to question of law required performing the difficult research task of proving a negative \u2013 in this instance, proving the absence of cases overturning relevant precedent or otherwise affirmatively establishing res judicata disputes as a question of law.\u00a0 Steven\u2019s research was further challenged by the fact that current terminology, i.e. \u201cres judicata,\u201d \u201ccollateral estoppel,\u201d \u201cclaim preclusion,\u201d and \u201cissue preclusion,\u201d was rarely used in nineteenth century cases.\u00a0 This necessarily led to the creation of innovative search queries to complete the project.<\/p>\n

Steven\u2019s foray into the history of his topic was unplanned at the outset of his research, and he notes that, \u201cby maintaining an open attitude a researcher can mold his\/her topic into a slight variation that may prove more interesting and novel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second Place:\u00a0Targeted Killing and Just War:\u00a0 Reconciling Kill-Capture Missions and the Combatant Civilian Framework<\/em>, by Louis Guard, 3L<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Louis Guard\u2019s research encompassed a diverse array of legal, philosophical, and factual resources.\u00a0 Not only did he examine the theoretical underpinnings of customary international law principles, but he successfully navigated the intricate research involved in locating hard evidence of customary international law as well.\u00a0 To this he added an accurate accounting of the specific facts and circumstances surrounding his topic.\u00a0 His sources included blogs, military-specific news sources, policy briefs and position papers, speeches and public statements, treaties and their interpretive documents, and even a number of forthcoming publications.<\/p>\n

Through discussions with both scholars and practitioners, Louis learned how depth of research affects quality of scholarship.\u00a0 He states, \u201cAcademic pieces lacking in rigorous research seem to do little in advancing the [academic] dialogue and are short lived.\u00a0 The more novel and valuable contributions always seemed to be those that were more thoroughly and competently researched.\u201d<\/p>\n

A review panel comprised of Librarians Jean Callihan, Pat Court, Amy Emerson, Matt Morrison and Nina Scholtz selected the winners from among 27 competitive entries.<\/p>\n

Funding for the Prize is provided by an endowment given to the Law Library by Barbara Cantwell in honor of her late husband, Robert Cantwell, a 1956 graduate of Cornell Law School.<\/p>\n

In addition to receiving a monetary award, the winners are also invited to publish their papers in Scholarship@Cornell Law<\/a>, the Law Library\u2019s digital repository, and to feature their papers in Reading Room displays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cornell Law Library is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of The Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research: First Place:\u00a0Annexation of the Jury\u2019s Role in Res Judicata Disputes: The Silent Migration from Question of Fact to Question of Law, by Steven Madrid, 2L Steven Madrid focused his research on two hundred years […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[312,655,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}