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May 6, 2008 -- Anna Burns ’08 is one of 15 law students to win the 2008 Burton Award for Legal Writing, presented in association with The Library of Congress. Her winning note, “Beard v. Banks: Restricted Reading, Rehabilitation, and Prisoners' First Amendment Rights,” was published in the summer 2007 issue of the Journal of Law & Policy. “The Burton Award is a real tribute to the high quality of scholarship of our student law reviews,” said Dean Joan G. Wexler. “We are pleased that our students continue to be recognized and congratulate Anna on her outstanding article.” Previous BLS award winners were Marc J. Pensabene ’94, Rachel Braunstein ’03, and Michael B. Weitman ’07. Burns will receive the award on June 16 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress, where Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court will be the guest speaker. Her award-winning note is a comment on the Supreme Court's standard of review when assessing prisoners' first amendment rights. It focuses on Beard v. Banks, a 2006 decision concerning inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were not allowed access to newspapers, magazines, or personal photographs, regulations that were justified, in part, by prison administrators as "rehabilitation." The Court relied upon these justifications, Burns asserted, and barely considered the impact of depriving prisoners of their constitutional freedoms. She criticized the Court's faulty review, and called for greater scrutiny and narrower tailoring when such crucial rights are at stake. Burns’ impressive law school career has included working on the Journal of Law & Policy as the Executive Notes and Comments Editor; placing first in the Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition; and winning several CALI awards and a Dean’s Recognition Merit Scholarship. This year she helped write the problem for the Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition. She was a summer associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP and a judicial intern with Hon. David G. Trager, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York, an adjunct professor and former Dean of the Law School. She was also a teaching assistant for Susan N. Herman, Centennial Professor of Law, and a summer intern at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. A native of New York City, Burns worked as a paralegal before coming to law school. She earned a B.A. at Skidmore College. After graduation, Burns will clerk for Hon. Stanley Marcus, United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, who is also a BLS adjunct professor. Read about Burns and other students starting federal clerkships
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