The winner of the 10th Annual Law Student Writing Competition is JOHN KILPER, a third year law student at the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Law. He is a Note and Comment Editor on the Missouri Law Review, and involved with the Board of Advocates the International Law Society and a number of other organizations at the school.

He completed his undergraduate education at Tulane University where he received a double major in History and Political Science, while still saving time to enjoy the unique New Orleans culture.

Upon graduation, John hopes to pursue a career encompassing the fields of antitrust and/or government procurement.

In his Note, he examined how various federal district courts have tried to apply the reasoning laid out by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the LePage’s v. 3M decision – a decision dealing with bundled discounting. Specifically, he tried to illustrate the difficulty the lower federal courts have faced since LePage’s when trying to determine whether a bundling scheme violates the antitrust laws.