Originally published in Student Lawyer magazine, December 2004 (Vol. 33, No. 4). All rights reserved.

D.V. Commission Names Essay Winners

Haley Schwartz, a student at Emory University School of Law, earned first place in the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence’s law student writing competition. Schwartz’s paper, “The Plight of Domestic Violence Victims Under the Procedure, Politics, and Policies of the Bankruptcy Code,” will be published in the Women Lawyers Journal of the National Association of Women Lawyers.

Second place went to Renee Jackson of the University of Connecticut School of Law for her paper, “Violent Women: The Law’s Inadequate Response to Lesbian Domestic Violence.” Nicole Hart of the University at Buffalo Law School took third place for her paper, “What Will the Marriage Initiative Mean for Victims of Domestic Violence? The Past, Present, and Future of Welfare Reform.”

Law students were asked to submit original writings on an aspect of domestic violence and the law from a national or international perspective.

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