Vanderbilt Law Review – Annual Awards

Each year, the following awards are made to deserving members of the Vanderbilt Law Review’s editorial staff.

Candidate’s Award

Awarded by the second-year staff of the Vanderbilt Law Review to the third-year staff member, other than the editor-in-chief, who has made the most significant contribution to their development as staff members of the Vanderbilt Law Review.

2019-2020 Recipient: Jeffrey Turner
Jeff made excellent contributions as Executive Editor. He cares deeply about the Law Review’s staff, reputation, and future and has worked hard to ensure 2Ls always knew there was a friendly face in the Suite to offer them help.

2018-2019 Recipient: Natalie Christmas
2017-2018 Recipient: Margaret Wilkinson Smith
2016-2017 Recipient: Laura C. Williams
2015-2016 Recipient: Samiyyah R. Ali
2014-2015 Recipient: Mary C. Nicoletta
2013-2014 Recipient: Ann E. Watford
2012-2013 Recipient: V. Blair Druhan
2011-2012 Recipient: Mary Alexander Myers
2010-2011 Recipient: Jacob Neu
2009-2010 Recipient: Andrew Gould
2008-2009 Recipient: John Benjamin Schrader

Editor’s Awards

Awarded annually to up to two third-year editorial board members who have made the most significant contributions to the Vanderbilt Law Review.

2019-2020 Recipient: Jill Warnock
Jill made outstanding contributions as the Managing Authorities Editor, a position that underwent significant changes this year. Jill rose to the challenge and handled the role extraordinarily well. She successfully managed competing deadlines, always produced high-quality work, and provided the Suite with a strong dose of dry humor. As an essential member of the Management Team, Jill also served as the editor of this year’s edition of the Gold Standard and played and integral part in reconfigured the MAE and Web & Publication Editor positions.

2018-2019 Recipient: Nathan Townsend
2017-2018 Recipients: Kaitlyn O. Hawkins & Blake C. Woodward
2016-2017 Recipients: Andrew James Marino & Benjamin D. Raker
2015-2016 Recipients: Matthew T. Doster & Laura E. Ezell
2014-2015 Recipients: Kourtney A. Traina & Mary Julia B. Hannon
2013-2014 Recipients: Sarah H. Parker & Joseph Quinn
2012-2013 Recipient: Angela Bergman
2011-2012 Recipients: Rebecca Dunnan & Karen U. Lindell
2010-2011 Recipients: Ryan Mark Davis & Michael Anthony Johnson
2009-2010 Recipient: Joseph Kimok
2008-2009 Recipients: Lesley Rand Attkisson & Aaron Michael Moyer

Morgan Prize

A cash award, in honor of Professor Edmund M. Morgan, given to the student contributing the most outstanding piece of student writing published in the Vanderbilt Law Review during the school year. The winner of this prize is ineligible to receive the Weldon B. White Prize.

2019-2020 Recipient: Szymon Barnas
Szymon’s note, Can and Should Universal Injunctions Be Saved? was published in October 2019.

2018-2019 Recipient: Samantha Sergent
2017-2018 Recipient: Julie L. Rooney
2016-2017 Recipient: Laura Dolbow
2015-2016 Recipient: Joshua D. Foote
2014-2015 Recipient: Jean Y. Xiao
2013-2014 Recipient: Keane A. Barger
2012-2013 Recipient: Taylor M. Owing
2011-2012 Recipient: Nathan C. Pysno
2010-2011 Recipient: David Barnes
2009-2010 Recipient: Andrew Gould
2008-2009 Recipient: Tory Hodges Lewis

Myron Penn Laughlin Note Award

Awarded to the student, other than the recipient of the Morgan Prize, who has contributed the best student note published in the Vanderbilt Law Review during the school year.

2019-2020 Recipient: Carlie Malone
Carlie’s note, Plea Bargaining and Collateral Consequences: An Experimental Analysis, was published in May 2020.

2018-2019 Recipient: Josh Landis
2017-2018 Recipient: Alex Carver & Turner Henderson
2016-2017 Recipient: Clayton J. Masterman
2015-2016 Recipient: Samiyyah R. Ali
2014-2015 Recipient: Daniel J. Hay
2013-2014 Recipient: William T. Marks
2012-2013 Recipient: V. Blair Druhan
2011-2012 Recipient: John C. Williams
2010-2011 Recipient: Jacob Neu
2009-2010 Recipient: Jennifer Bennett Shinall
2008-2009 Recipient: John Edward Haubenreich

Best mini-Note Award

The Best Mini-Note Award is awarded to the 2L staff member whose mini-note received the highest weighted score in the Write-On Competition.

2019-2020 Recipient: Meredith Barrow
The 2019 mini-note asked students to analyses how courts should apply the third-party doctrine, a Fourth Amendment rule that limits the privacy of information shared with third parties, to large-scale digital data collections.