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Maureen O’Sullivan
has been named a Great Lakes Environmental Law Center fellow for 2015-16.
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Justin Sterk
has been named a Great Lakes Environmental Law Center fellow for 2015-16.
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Sabra Bushey
has been named a Great Lakes Environmental Law Center fellow for 2015-16.
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Robert Okonowski
joined intellectual property law firm Darrow Mustafa PC in Northville as a law clerk. He is a rising third-year student.
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Jaspreet Singh
was featured in a WXYZ TV segment,
"Detroit law student creates water resistant socks, plans to grow company 5 Water Socks." Singh hopes to grow his company in the city of Detroit and bring more creative design jobs to the city. He's also hoping to raise awareness about the problems affecting his native home of Punjab, India. The name 5 Water Socks was inspired by both Detroit (The Great Lakes) and Punjab, which means the land of five waters. He is a rising second-year student.
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Steven Knox
received the Outstanding Student Award for Wayne Law from the Clinical Legal Education Association. The award honors one law student at each law school who has excelled in a clinical course.
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Brent Farago
was selected by faculty to be honored at the recent Michigan Bar Tax Section annual meeting. Each year, the section awards the outstanding tax students from each of the law schools in Michigan for "Excellence in the Study of Taxation." Professor Linda Beale, Associate Professor Susan Cancelosi and Distinguished Professor Alan Schenk selected Wayne Law's winners.
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Kiefer Cox
was selected by faculty to be honored at the recent Michigan Bar Tax Section annual meeting. Each year, the section awards the outstanding tax students from each of the law schools in Michigan for "Excellence in the Study of Taxation." Professor Linda Beale, Associate Professor Susan Cancelosi and Distinguished Professor Alan Schenk selected Wayne Law's winners.
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Erica Shell
has been awarded honorable mention in a national writing competition. Shell's entry in the Environmental Law Insitute's 2014-15 Beveridge & Diamond Constitutional Environmental Law Writing Competition was "The Final Auer: Constitutional Challenges to a Fundamental Principle of Administrative Law." Her article, one of the top three in the contest, will be published in an upcoming edition of Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis.
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Jasmine Moore
and her first-year classmate Shanika Owens are featured in a
National Geographic article on
Taking Back Detroit. They were photographed and interviewed at the law school's Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Service Project.
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Shanika Owens
and her first-year classmate Jasmine Moore are featured in a
National Geographic article on
Taking Back Detroit. They were photographed and interviewed at the law school's Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Service Project. Owens is quoted in a 30-second audio interview on the magazine's website.
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Milica Filipovic
was part of the Wayne Law team that won the U.S. Midwest Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 19 through Feb. 22 in Chicago. The team also took home the award for Best Memorial and will advance to the White & Case International Rounds of the Jessup competition from April 5 through 11 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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Shahad Atiya
was part of the Wayne Law team that won the U.S. Midwest Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 19 through Feb. 22 in Chicago. The team also took home the award for Best Memorial and will advance to the White & Case International Rounds of the Jessup competition from April 5 through 11 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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Frank Moran
was part of the Wayne Law team that won the U.S. Midwest Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 19 through Feb. 22 in Chicago. In addition, Moran tied for Best Oralist out of nearly 90 speakers in the region. The team also took home the award for Best Memorial and will advance to the White & Case International Rounds of the Jessup competition from April 5 through 11 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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Elizabeth Cacevic
was part of the Wayne Law team that won the U.S. Midwest Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 19 through Feb. 22 in Chicago. The team also took home the award for Best Memorial and will advance to the White & Case International Rounds of the Jessup competition from April 5 through 11 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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Fatima Mansour
was part of the Wayne Law team that won the U.S. Midwest Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 19 through Feb. 22 in Chicago. The team also took home the award for Best Memorial and will advance to the White & Case International Rounds of the Jessup competition from April 5 through 11 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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Justin Sterk
was part of the National Environmental Law Moot Court Team that took home the Best Brief award at the annual Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 19 through Feb. 21 at Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y.
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Paul Stewart
was part of the National Environmental Law Moot Court Team that took home the Best Brief award at the annual Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 19 through Feb. 21 at Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y.
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Erica Shell
was part of the National Environmental Law Moot Court Team that took home the Best Brief award at the annual Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 19 through Feb. 21 at Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y. Shell also was named Best Oralist twice, once for each time she argued, with judges remarking that they "wouldn't want to face her in court" and that she was "unflappable."
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Anna Rossi
taped a Great Lakes Log TV program about the Transnational Environmental Law Clinic with fellow student Erica Shell and Assistant (Clinical) Professor Nick Schroeck. The show is slated to air every day Feb. 23-March 1 at 10:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on WMTV on Comcast channels 5 and 915 in the Grosse Pointes and Harper Woods, on WOW channel 10 in Grosse Pointe Woods and on AT&T U-verse channel 99 (select Grosse Pointe) in more than 140 metropolitan Detroit communities.
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Erica Shell
taped a Great Lakes Log TV program about the Transnational Environmental Law Clinic with fellow student Anna Rossi and Assistant (Clinical) Professor Nick Schroeck. The show is slated to air every day Feb. 23-March 1 at 10:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on WMTV on Comcast channels 5 and 915 in the Grosse Pointes and Harper Woods, on WOW channel 10 in Grosse Pointe Woods and on AT&T U-verse channel 99 (select Grosse Pointe) in more than 140 metropolitan Detroit communities.
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Mahde Abdallah
was awarded a scholarship by the Michigan Muslim Bar Association. He is a third-year student. Abdallah, who lives in Dearborn, is an advisory board member of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee-Michigan, a licensed real estate agent and a legal intern with NORMA Group, a global manufacturer of technology products. At Wayne Law, he's a member of the Student Bar Association Board of Governors and a senior member of the Student Trial Advocacy Program.
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Samuel Kokoszka
, who will start his second year at Wayne State University Law School this fall, has been awarded the Mark A. Miller Memorial Fund Scholarship. The award is given each year by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to a summer intern of a judicial officer at the court. The scholarship honors the memory of Mark A. Miller, who was a law clerk to U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh. Miller, a Milford resident, died in 2010 at age 53 following serious health issues.
"Evident in Mark's daily life was his respect for others, his sense of humor, courtesy and professionalism," states a description of the scholarship provided by the court. "As much as possible, we seek recipients who share Mark's values and passion." The award is a $1,500 stipend to offset out-of-pocket expenses during the intern's tenure with the court.
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Paul Stewart
has won the national 2013-14 Beveridge & Diamond Constitutional Environmental Law Writing Competition with his entry, "The Overlooked Vulnerabilities of State-Level Greenhouse Gas Regulations Under Pike Balancing and Possiblities for Addressing Those Vulnerabilies." He'll receive a $2,000 award, a year's membership to the nonpartisan Environmental Law Insitute in Washington, D.C., and publication of his paper in Environmental Law Reporter, the institute's flagship journal and a respected law review covering environmental and natural resource issues. Stewart is a second-year law student.
