Writing Competition 2006 Winner

Best Book
Prof. Ronald J. Mann

CHARGING AHEAD: THE GROWTH AND REGULATION OF PAYMENT CARD MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD – Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
Best Professional Article
Assoc. Prof. Kathleen C. Engel
Prof. Patricia A. McCoy

TURNING A BLIND EYE: WALL STREET FINANCE OF PREDATORY LENDING – 75 Fordham L. Rev. 2039 (2006-2007)
Best Student Article
Derrick M. Land

Residential Mortgage Securitization and Consumer Welfare – 61 Cons. Fin. Law Quarterly Report 208

Writing Competition – 2011 Winner

Best Book
Kathleen Engel & Patricia McCoy

The Subprime Virus—Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, and Next Steps
(Oxford University Press 2011)

Best Professional Article
Christopher Peterson

Foreclosure, Subprime Mortgage Lending, & the Mortgage Electronic Registration System
78 U. Cinci. L. Rev. 1359 (2010)

Best Student Article
Peter Cockrell

Subprime Solutions to the Housing Crisis: Constitutional Problems with the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 1149 (2010)

Writing Competition – 2012 Winner

Best Professional Articles
James Hawkins

Credit on Wheels: The Law and Business of Auto Title Lending
69 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. xx
(forthcoming 2012)

Michael Simkovic

Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
88 Ind. L. J.
(forthcoming 2013)

Best Student Work
Tiffany Lee

No More Abuse: The Dodd-Frank and Consumer Financial Protection Act’s “Abusive” Standard
14 Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law 118 (2011)

Writing Competition – 2013 Winner

Best Professional Article
Assistant Professor Lea Shepard

Toward a Stronger Financial History Antidiscrimination Norm
Vol. 53, Boston College Law Review 1695

Writing Competition – 2014 Winner

Best Professional Article
Professor Adam Levitin

Georgetown University Law Center

The Paper Chase

Duke Law Journal Vol. 63:636

Best Student Note
Molly Rose Goodman

Suffolk University Law School ’13

The Buck Stops Here: Toxic Titles and Title Insurance
Real Estate Law Journal Volume 42 Summer 2013

Writing Competition – 2015 Winner

Best Professional Article
Professor Dori K. Bailey

Syracuse University School of Law

A Defense of the Doctrine of Preemption: Revealing the Fallacy that Federal Preemption Contributed to the Financial Crisis
16 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1041 (2014)

Best Student Note
Tami Hines

Oklahoma City School of Law, 2014

MERS: Sometimes Agent, Sometimes Principal, Often Misconstrued
This article was published in the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report (vol. 68, no.1, 2014). Reprinted with permission.

Writing Competition – 2016 Winner

Best Professional Article
Professor John E. Campbell

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

WHERE KAFKA REIGNS: A Call for Metamorphosis in Unlawful Detainer Law

Best Student Note
Daniel O’Connell

Catholic University of America

Confounded Collectors, Confused Consumers: Time to Close the Circuit Split on Whether the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Requires a Consumer to Dispute a Debt in Writing

Writing Competition – 2017 Winner

Professional Category
Professor Elizabeth De Armond

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Preventing Preemption: Finding Space for States to Regulate Consumers’ Credit Reports

Student Category
Zachary Adams Mason ’16

Georgetown University Law Center

Online Loans Across State Lines – Protecting Peer-To-Peer Lending Through The Exportation Doctrine

Writing Competition – 2021 Winner

Professional Category
Yonathan Arbel

Associate Professor of Law
University of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3547007

Payday
Washington University Law Review, Vol. 98, issue 1 (2020)

Writing Competition – 2020 Winner

Student Category
Brianne Marino Glass

University of North Carolina School of Law

Tribal Lending Under CFPB Enforcement: Tribal Sovereign Immunity and the “True Lender” Distinction
23 N.C. Banking Inst. 401 (2019)

Eric M. Knight

George Washington University Law School

AI and Machine Learning-Based Credit Underwriting and Adverse Action Under the ECOA
3 Bus. & Fin. L. Rev. 236