{"id":403,"date":"2009-12-04T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T19:35:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-29T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T18:48:51","slug":"stetson-law-student-wins-civil-liberties-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2009\/12\/04\/stetson-law-student-wins-civil-liberties-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Stetson Law Student Wins Civil Liberties Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact Brandi Palmer<br \/>\nManager of Media Relations<br \/>\n727-562-7381<br \/>\npalmer@law.stetson.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3948\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Hi-res version\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5303\/5755012439_399080c68d_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3948\" title=\"Students Win Civil Liberties Prize \" src=\"http:\/\/www.law.stetson.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Students-Win-Civil-Liberties-Prize-lo-res.jpg\" alt=\"Students Win Civil Liberties Prize \" width=\"250\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R): Students Katherine Lambrose, award-winning writer Stephen Farkas and Christa Queen-Sutherland. Click for high-resolution image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stetson Law student Stephen Farkas won the inaugural Civil Liberties Prize for his paper, <em>Bringing Marriage Equality to the United States from Abroad<\/em>:<em> An Analysis of How Judicial Decisions from Canada Have Helped Achieve Marriage for Some, and Given Hope to Others<\/em>. The award was presented by The Lambda Legal Society \u00a0at Stetson \u00a0University College of Law and the American Civil Liberties Union Pinellas County Chapter on Dec. 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is wonderful to see the scholarship of Stetson students being recognized in the greater community, and especially important to know that their papers may assist in moving the discussion forward to achieve important \u00a0civil liberties for all,&#8221; said Professor Ellen Podgor, who advises Lambda.<\/p>\n<p>Farkas <strong>won $500 and the opportunity to \u00a0submit his paper <em>for publication in <em>The Torch<\/em>, the statewide ACLU magazine<em>. <\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The runners-up for the prize are Stetson Law students \u00a0Katherine \u00a0Lambrose \u00a0for her \u00a0paper <em>Civil Unions: \u00a0The Persistence of &#8216;Separate But Equal&#8217; Doctrine in Gay Politics,<\/em> and Christa Queen-Sutherland for her paper <em>Genital Mutilation in our own Backyard<\/em>: <em>The Legal and Medical Ramifications for being Born an Intersexual in a Dualistic (Heterosexual) Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paper topics included gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender legal issues, and preference was given to a focus on civil liberties involving public authorities. 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