Claire Rice, ’23, Honored as Runner Up in ACS’s Constance Baker Motley National Student Writing Competition

American Constitution Society Announces 2022 Constance Baker Motley Winners

The American Constitution Society has selected a third-year law student at the Washington and Lee University School of Law as the winner of the 2022 Constance Baker Motley National Student Writing Competition.

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This year’s runners-up are Claire Rice, a second-year law student at The University of Chicago Law School, for her paper, Does Context Matter? Evaluating the Constitutionality of California’s Boardroom Diversity Mandate; and Brett Ries, a second-year law student at Duke University School of Law, for his paper, Not Up For Deliberation: Expanding the Peña-Rodriguez Protection To Cover Jury Bias Against LGBTQ+ Individuals.

Each of the winners will receive a monetary award and Halley Townsend will be offered an opportunity to publish her paper in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

All three recipients will be recognized at ACS’s 2022 National Convention June 16-18 in Washington, D.C. To register for the convention and see the full schedule, please visit the 2022 National Convention website.

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