Regulatory Essay Competition Winners

The Regulatory Review is proud to feature the work of three student authors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. These essays have been selected as the best essays written on recent U.S. regulations from among the students in Professor Sophia Lee’s Spring 2014 class in administrative law. To enhance her students’ motivation to hone their writing skills and learn more about federal agency rules and how they are made, Professor Lee divided her class into groups to research a significant agency rule adopted within the last several years. After completing their group research assignments, students worked individually to prepare a concise, clear synthesis of their groups’ selected rules – with the idea, worked out in advance between Professor Lee and the editors of The Regulatory Review, that the best such individual essays would be submitted to The Regulatory Review for editing and publication. Professor Lee’s students themselves winnowed down the top essays through a crowd-sourcing selection process that ultimately led to the identification of the most highly-rated three essays – each of which we are pleased to feature in this series. We are delighted to present them to our readers (in random order), as well as to offer our congratulations to their authors