Congratulations to Third-Year Law Student, Katryna Santa Cruz, who placed in Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition.
Ms. Santa Cruz won one of two second-place prizes for her manuscript “When Women Fare Better by Saying ‘No’: Re-Legitimizing Constructive Discharge and Circumventing Suders by Styling Constructive Discharge Claims as Retaliation Claims.” The award is a $1000 scholarship.
The competition is underwritten by Jackson Lewis, LLP, in honor of founding partner Louis Jackson, and administered by the Institute for Law and the Workplace at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. It recognizes the best legal writing in the field of labor and employment law among current law students. The committee of five judges is drawn from among the most preeminent labor and employment law scholars in the country, and entries are blind judged.
At FIU Law, Ms. Santa Cruz is the Vice President of Intramural Competition of the FIU Moot Court team, a senior staff member of the FIU Law Review, and a member of the FIU Labor and Employment Law Society. She will be clerking for Judge Scott Makar at the Florida First District Court of Appeal after graduation.