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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

The Law and Public Policy Program provides opportunities for serious research and writing by students. Every student in the Program writes one paper for Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer and a longer paper as part of the Public Policy Practicum. Interdisciplinary research and empirical investigation of social problems is encouraged. Many LPP students have published articles during law school; most of these began as research papers. Some have been published in journals at CUA; others have been published by other journals. A list of recent examples follows.

Megan Annitto (with Bronwyn Mayden and Wendy Castro), FIRST TALK: ATEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION DIALOGUE AMONG LATINOS, Child Welfare League of America Press (1999).

Lesley Suzanne Bonney, The Prosecution of Sophisticated Urban Street Gangs: A Proper Application of RICO, 42 CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 579 (1993).

Jennifer Howard, Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer" Through Experience, 2 CLINICAL LAW REVIEW 167 (1995).

Kevin Kramer, A National Epidemic, A National Conversation, A National Law: In Support of Unique Identifier Reporting for HIV Surveillance, 16 JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HEALTH LAW AND POLICY (1999).

Mary O'Flynn, The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: Changing Child Welfare Policy Without Addressing Parental Substance Abuse, 16 JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HEALTH LAW AND POLICY (1999).

Peter A. Pfohl, Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking: The 104th Congress and the Salvage Timber Directive, 14 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLITICS 1 (1998).

Peter A. Pfohl, Who Should Pay for Agency Adjudication? A Study of $200,000 Filing Fees at the Surface Transportation Board, 25 TRANSPOTATION LAW JOURNAL 57 (1997).

Christopher M. Pilkerton, Traffic Jam: Recommendations for Civil and Criminal Penalties to Curb the Recent Trafficking of Women from Post Cold-War Russia, 5 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF GENDER AND THE LAW 221 (1998).

Christopher M. Pilkerton, Survey of the Current Criminal Activity in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States, 6 TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME (1999)

Christopher M. Pilkerton, Cough It Up: Regulating Organized Crime out of Health Care, 15 JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HEALTH LAW AND POLICY (1999).

Jennifer Wright-Brown, Finding Room for Independent Candidates in Light of Kansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes, 7 COMMLAW CONSPECTUS 137 (Winter 1999).