Jean Monnet EU Law Student Research Fellowship Program
The Jean Monnet EU Law Student Research Fellowship Program is a complementary program for the European Union Law course (LAW 5005) and for directed student research in EU law. Jean Monnet EU Law Research Fellows are students who write an EU law research paper for R credit. Jean Monnet Fellowships help students to make their EU Law education more and better visible nationally and internationally. The Jean Monnet label serves as the European and international standard for the visibility of high-quality teaching and research in EU law and is the most prestigious label for this kind of study initiatives in academia in Europe and internationally.
The Jean Monnet EU Law Student Research Fellowship Program is hosted by the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum and supported by its affiliated Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Law.
For more details, please contact Professor Siegfried Fina, Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law.
Jean Monnet EU Law Research Fellows
2022-2023
Worabhatra Chantramitra
Reseach project: The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Regulation and its Consistency with Key Obligations Under the WTO
Annie Di
Research project: “ISDS: The Most Toxic Acronym in Europe”: Exploring the Murky Negative Space of the European Union’s Post-Achmea Quagmire
Jason Hoag
Research project: European Media Freedom Act: A Review
Ashley Leon
Research project: The Tipping Point: An Analysis of the EU’s Proposed Regulation to Combat CSAM
Helena Li
Research project: Protection from the Internal Market – Consumer Protection in the Free Movement of Goods and Competition Law
David Mollenkamp
Research project: National Security, Privacy, and Possible Alterations in the Court of Justice of the European Union’s Case Law in Respect to the Spyware Surveillance Crisis
Tanisha Mugiwmi
Research project: European Antitrust Law and Sustainability: Current limitations and potential benefits of European Commission guidance and anticompetitive policies on developing European sustainability
George Muirhead
Research project: On the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights
Samantha Potter
Research project: Approaching Harmonization: Examining the European Union’s Efforts to Create a Common EU Space Law and Assessing its Potential Legal Foundations
Rebecca Sadock
Research project: LGBTI Rights Under the European Union Legal Regime
Jessica Shin
Research project: Third-Party Litigation Funding (“TPLF”): A Comparison Between the European Union’s and Australia’s Current Regulatory Framework
Antar Thiam
Research project: A German national’s illegal rendition, and the insights into, and critiques of EU law that it elicits
Samuel Wallace-Perdomo
Research project: The Incompatibility of the Energy Charter Treaty With EU Law: Komstroy and Reforming Investment Arbitration Mechanisms
Matthew Wigler
Research project: Can the European Union Effectively Protect the Rule of Law in its Member States?: Evaluating Enforcement Tools in the Context of Poland and Hungary
2021-2022
Haley Chow
Research project: An Analysis of UEFA’s Homegrown Players Rule by Applying the Covert Discrimination Principle
Victoria Fang
Research project: A Patent Exception to the EU Official Languages: Linguistic Nationalism and Political Compromise Toward a Unitary Patent System
Aaron Franklin
Research project: Direct Causation in EU State Aid Law
Sydney Kirlan-Stout
Research project: Poland: Sovereignty, Supremacy and the Rule of Law
Josh LaFianza
Research project: Threatening Ill-Gotten Gains: Analyzing the Effectiveness of a Forced Labor Import Ban in the European Union
Sarah Lee
Research project: Repairing the Data Privacy Shield: Navigating Between Privacy and Surveillance – Reconciling the EU and US Approach?
Dennis J. Poehland
Research project: Sustainable Finance: Regulatory Approaches to ESG Disclosures in the European Union and the United States
Michael Rover
Research project: Frontex: EU Security Cooperation or an Institution Built for Refoulement?
Jacqueline Schaeffer
Research project: Rethinking the Playing Field: Can the European Union’s Proposed Regulation on Foreign Subsidies Serve as a Blueprint for WTO Reform?
Sarah Smith
Research project: The Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management in the EU: A Step Toward Solidarity
Caro Sundermeyer
Research project: The U.S. and EU May Agree But Could There Be a Schrems III?: A Preliminary Exploration of the Potential Adequacy of the New Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
Glen Williams
Research project: A Close Examination of the Digital Markets Act
2019-2020
Jonathan Ballo
Research project: The Ties That Bind: The Likelihood and Legality of an Exit by a Eurozone Member State and Its Consequences for Bank Loans Denominated in Euros
Nitisha Baronia
Research project: Glawischnig-Piesczek, European Takedown Orders, and American Law
Elena Goldstein
Research project: Litigating Government Use of Facial Recognition Technology in Europe
Thomas William Lopez
Research project: San Marino: Navigating the European Union as a Microstate
Drew Musto
Research project: Free Movement of Judgments: The EU’s “Fifth Freedom” in Transatlantic Comparison
Patrick Ntchobo
Research project: The Drama of the Irish Backstop
Tim Rosenberger
Research project: The European Union, the United Kingdom, and Their Migrant Remittance Flow: A Comparative Law Approach for Refining Law and Policy
Tom Westpahl David
Research project: Does Having an Affirmative Right to Vote Matter?: Comparing Elector Qualification Laws in the European Union and the United States
Camille Woodbury
Research project: The EU’s Approach to Taxation of the Digital Economy
2018-2019
David Kwabena Adu-Kusi
Research project: A Reconsideration of the Implication of Slovak Republic v Achmea BV for Bilateral Investment Treaties
Paloma Alcantara
Research project: Analysis of the Mexican Competition Leniency Program in the Light of EU Law
Juan Miguel Alvarez Contreras
Research project: How Innovative Is the Purportedly Innovative EU’s Proposal for an Investment Court System: A Comparison Between ICS and Traditional Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Justin Olivier Bryant
Research project: The Impacts of the GDPR on Africa
Young Joo Cho
Research project: The Doctrine of Direct Effect in EU Law: A Comparative Analysis of EU, US, and Korean Law
Macey Lauren Olave
Research project: Should There Be a Class Action System in the European Union?: Lessons From the United States
Tyler Donovan Robbins
Research project: The Justification, Consequences, and Controversy of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market’s Article 17
Laura Joan Sussman
Research project: An Analysis of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme
Abigail Lynn Thompson
Research project: The European Union and the New Wild West: A Survey of the Arctic Resources Race and the European Union’s Place Within It
Alice Wang
Research project: Comitology and the Democratic Deficit: An Assessment of the Lisbon Reforms
2017-2018
Bryan Casey
Research project: The Next Chapter in the GDPR’s “Right to Explanation” Debate and What It Means for Algorithms in Enterprise
Earl Joyce Rivera Dolera
Research project: Achmea culpa – Has the Bubble Burst for Intra-EU Investor-State Arbitration?
Hidehiko Hokoi
Research project: Corporate Governance Framework under the EU and Japanese Laws in Relation to the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
Research project: Japanese Policy in Relation to the Multilateral Investment Court System: Should Japan Participate in the International Court System of the European Union?
Katherine Kelsh
Research project: Digital Rights as Children’s Human Rights: The Conflict Between the Article 8 of the European General Data Protection Regulation and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Jacob Lundqvist
Research project: Screening Foreign Direct Investment in the European Union: Prospects for a “Multispeed” Framework
Lloyd Lyall
Research project: Guardian of the Treaties: The European Commission’s Prioritization of EU Law Enforcement through the Infringement Procedure
Matthew Mainen
Research project: The European Union’s Two-Tiered System for Blacklisting Terrorist Organizations
Emily Pehrsson
Research project: The Meaning of the GDPR Article 22
Tomer Treger
Research project: The Decline of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System? Analyzing the European Union’s Case for a New International Investment Court
2016-2017
Cathrina Altimari-Brown
Research project: Asylum in the European Union: International and EU Law and the Common European Asylum System
Victoria Cadiz
Research project: How Did We End Up Here? An explanation of the European Union in 2017 through an analysis of federalism, neofunctionalism, and intergovernmentalism and the proposal of an amended European integration theory
Yucheng Fan
Research project: Are Language Proficiency Requirements for Taxi Drivers Lawful? A Comparative Study of the European Union and the United States?
Rachel Frank
Research project: Religious Liberty and Mass Expulsion in the European Union
Matt Getz
Research project: Freedom of Religion in Pluralistic Societies: A Comparative Examination of Religious Liberty in the United States and Europe
Hiroki Habuka
Research project: Designing Dispute Settlement Mechanism Under International Economic Agreements Based on the European Union’s Recent Innovations
Natalie Karl
Research project: A Comparison Between Personal Data Breach Notification Requirements Under the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union and California Laws
Jacob Lundqvist
Research project: Signed, Sealed, (Justice) Delivered? E-Signature Law and Consumer Protection Within the European Union
Mirena Taskova
Research project: The Open Road to Personal Data: Implementing the EU’s New Data Portability Right
2015-2016
Claire Chapla
Research project: Regulating the Sharing Economy in the European Union: The Case of Uber and the Freedom to Provide Services
Kimberly Larkin
Research project: Divergent Duties: Complementarity and Crisis in the ECJ’s and ECtHR’s Approaches “Safe Third Country” Legislation within the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal
Antoni Terra
Research project: End-User License Agreements and Their Restrictions on the Resale of Digital Goods: An EU-U.S. Comparative Analysis on Copyright, Antitrust, and Consumer Protection Issues and Law & Economics Policy Discussion on Introducing the Digital First Sale Doctrine
Laura Vittet-Adamson
Research project: Protecting Privacy Through Invalidation: How European Courts have approached European and extraterritorial data privacy
Mengyi Xu
Research project: Legal Uncertainty by Design: Privacy Shield as Catalyst for the Convergence of Data Protection Rules to the GDPR European Gold Standard
Grace Zhou
Research project: Taming the Common Law Chimera? How the EU’s Accession to the ECHR Will Affect the Evolution of Fundamental Rights
2014-2015
Erin Cho
Research project: EU Asylum Law for Unaccompanied Minors
Grace Chuchla
Research project: The European Union and the Right to be Forgotten: A Comparative Analysis of EU and U.S. Privacy Law
Alvaro Fomperosa Rivero
Research project: Right to be Forgotten in the ECJ’s Google Spain Case: the Right Balance of Privacy Rights, Procedure, and Extraterritoriality
Travis Robertson
Research project: Comparative Analysis of the Legal Environment in the European Union and the United States Governing the Practice on Online Behavioral Advertising
Laura Vittet-Adamson
Research project: The European Court of Justice and East African Court of Justice: a Comparative Study
Christopher Zanetis
Research project: Towards Harmony or Dissonance? Transatlantic Rethinking of Data Privacy Protection and the Future of Regulatory Compliance
2013-2014
Jose Aleman
Research project: Transatlantic Coordination of Financial Regulatory Reform: The Case of OTC Derivatives Regulation
Susie Choi
Research project: An Evaluation of the EU Takeover Directive (Thirteenth Directive) Through the Lens of the Harmonization Process
Anna Zeiter
Research project: The New General Data Protection Regulation of the EU and Its Impact on IT Companies in the U.S.
2012-2013
Jose Aleman
Research project: Systemic Risk, Fragmented Power: The Unfinished Business of Financial Regulatory Reform in the European Union
Jeremy Bearer-Friend
Research project: The Role of the European Union in Combating Tax Base Erosion by U.S. Multinationals: Amending the Parent-Subsidiary Directive and the Savings Directive
Elizabeth Do
Research project: Comparison of Law Relating to Abuse of Dominant Position or Monopoly Power in the European Union and United States
Alan Fishman
Research project: Finding Value in the EU-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Establishing Transatlantic Institutions for Regulatory Harmonization and Adjudication
Christopher Skelton
Research project: Marks of Difference: Contrasting Trademark Law in the European Union and in the United States
Emily Speak
Research project: The European Commission’s Role in WTO Negotiations
Andy Stevenson
Research project: Competition in the European Union Natural Gas Sector: Progress to Date and Implications for Gazprom
Lorraine Weekes
Research project: Towards a More European European Union: The Constitutive Relationship between EU Law and the Cultures of Member States and its Implications for EU Governance and Legitimacy
2011-2012
Jeremy Bearer-Friend
Research project: A New Path Towards Tax Harmonization in the European Union: A Prospective Analysis of the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act’s Effect on EU Tax Policy
Annie Bersagel
Research project: Norway’s Planned Reservation of the Third European Postal Directive and the Future of the European Economic Agreement
Elizabeth Espinosa
Research project: The European Sovereign Debt Crisis: How the EU Legal Structure Limits and Shapes Responses
Lucy Haley
Research project: The Challenges to Lawmaking With Respect to Highly Qualified Immigrants: A Comparison of the European Union and United States
Rob Swanson
Research project: Implementing the EU Unified Patent Court: Lessons from the Federal Circuit
2010-2011
Michael Austin
Research project: A Vigilant Watchdog or a Paper Tiger? An Analysis of the Application of EU State Aid Controls to Bank Bailouts During the Financial Crisis
Gina Di Domenico
Research project: Criminal Law in the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities
Jamie Kendall
Research project: EU and U.S. Competition Law and the Essential Facilities Doctrine: The Comparative Viability of IP Rights as a Defense to Allegations of Abuse of a Dominant Position
Julia Kropp
Research project: Senator Kerry’s Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights: Will the U.S. Follow in the Path of EU Data Privacy Regulations? Should it?
Catherine Morris
Research project: EU and U.S. Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies: The Particular Problems of Transparency and Conflicts of Interest, and a Look to the Future Position of CRAs
Ragnheidur Olafsdottir
Research project: The European Union’s Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis
Andrew Schupanitz
Research project: “Creating Europe”: The History of European Integration and the Changing Role of EU Competition Law
2009-2010
Michael Austin
Research project: Style or Substance? An Analysis of the Major Reforms to CFSP by the Treaty of Lisbon
Richard Barbour II
Research project: The European Commission’s Merger Proceedings: Legal Framework and Merger Analysis
Aaron Kleven
Research project: Facing the Financial Crisis: For a More Secure Future, the European Union Must Expand its Supranational Powers
Nicholas Reed
Research project: From GE/Honeywell to Oracle/Sun: A Comparative Analysis of EU and U.S. Merger Regimes as Relates to Mergers between U.S. Based Companies