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Davis Wright Tremaine Writing Awards

Adriana Gomez ’21 and Brittaney Bones ’20 were selected as the 2020 Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Award recipients.

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Adriana Gomez ’21 and Brittaney Bones ’20 were selected as the 2020 Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Award recipients. The Lewis & Clark Law School award program, established through the generosity of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, provides a $2,500 stipend for the best research paper written in the past year by a JD student on any topic in international or comparative law, and a $1,000 stipend for the second-best paper.

Gomez received first place for her paper “The Implementation of Gender Inclusivity Standards in the 2019 Dutch Model Bilateral Investment Treaty.” Bones received second place for her paper “Potential Solutions to Concerns Over the Treatment of U.S. Investment in China: The Need for a U.S.-China Bilateral Investment Treaty.”

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