Congratulations to 3L Elena LeVan, the second-place winner of the eighteenth annual Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice!
This honor is awarded by the If/When/How, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law. The prize recognizes work that exhibits exceptional writing and research and profound understanding and analysis of reproductive rights and justice. The suggested theme for 2023 was “A Different World Is Possible: Repro Health, Rights, and Justice Post-Dobbs.”
Elena’s winning article is titled “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: Potential Protections for Inmates Subject to Sexual Victimization in the Post-Dobbs World.” In addition to scholarly writing, Elena is a Senior Executive Editor at the Washington University Law Review and a legal intern at Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt LLP.
Read more about the contest and other winners here.