Graduation Awards

Recognition for service to our Journals.
Katherine Ryan and Julia Landi

For excellence in oral advocacy on the Interscholastic Moot Court Board.
Raquelle Rocco and Robert Campbell

For most improvement in oral advocacy on the Interscholastic Moot Court Board.
Bradley Schlager and Julia Yu

For their amazing work and dedication in conceiving and writing the Gressman Competition legal problem and in planning and organizing the intra-scholastic Gressman Moot Court Competition.
Chloe Schafer, Director and Grace Paul, Assistant Director

For serving as a peer leader of the Appellate Advocacy Moot Court board and for their amazing substantive and administrative work running the Appellate Advocacy program.
Jacklyn Morgentaler, Day Division Director and Ayoka Smith, Weekend Division Director

For dedication and service to the Mock Trial Board.
Patrick O’Connor and Vinod Sardesai

Mary Franzese Humanitarian Achievement, given to the student who has demonstrated Public Leadership, Community Service, Integrity and Vision throughout his or her law school career.
Justin Giacobbe

Outstanding Advocate, the Center for Social Justice faculty recognize the following student who made the Most Significant Contribution to the clinical programs overall.
Rahim Mahmoud

Recognition for outstanding performance with individual clinics within the Center for Social Justice.
Nicholas Webb, Civil Litigation and Practice
Kylie Spinello, Community Wealth Building Transactional Law
Stephen Ingersoll and Janiah Luciano, Criminal Defense and Community Advocacy
Katherine Butler, Equal Justice
Elena Bresnan, Family Law
Fern Holt and Emily Raedisch, Health Advocacy and Collaboration Law
Charles Newman, Housing Justice and Legal Design
Andrea Espinoza and Cayla Teehan, Immigrants' Rights and International Human Rights
Julia Landi and Carter Massengill, Impact Litigation
Agnieszka Karkoszka, Transactional Law 

The Clinical Legal Education Association recognizes a student team for their work as outstanding legal practitioners.
Fern Holt and Emily Raedisch

West Academic Prize for Excellence in the Commercial Law Survey Course, presented each year by West Academic Publishing to the graduating student who received the highest grade in the Commercial Law Survey course.
Joachim Icasiano and Guido Salandra

Awards of Excellence honor superior academic performance in the following fields:
Victoria Jewula, Emily Raedisch, Christina Tao, & Wendy Xia, Health Law
Bridget Knodel, Salma Mohamed, and Jessica Shinski, Labor and Employment Law
Nikki Carr and Kiyannah Joyner, Law and Technology

The Advanced Legal Writing Award was established by the faculty to recognize the graduating student who submitted the best paper for Advanced Legal Writing.
Aadil Rizwan with his paper, " Closing the Telehealth Prescription Loophole: The Case for A Mandatory Federal Prescription Drug Monitoring Requirement" and supervised by Professor Tara Ragone

Faculty established an additional award to further recognize student scholarship with the Best Published Comment by a Graduating Student.
Carter Massengill with his comment "Overriding Autopilot: How a Private Right of Action Can Revitalize the Air Carrier Access Act After Decades of Neglect" and supervised by Professor Carl H. Coleman

Msgr. Thomas M. Reardon for Most Improved Over Law School Career, established in honor of Monsignor Thomas Reardon, who was the first Regent of Seton Hall University School of Law. The award is given to the student who has shown the most improvement over his or her law school career.
Rohan Sharma

The Adeline Lillian Carmella Memorial Award honors a life filled with compassion, welcome, and peace-making. The student chosen would have exhibited these personal qualities toward his or her colleagues within the Seton Hall community, making the experience of law school more life-affirming.
Kiyannah Joyner

Marc R. Poirier Trailblazer Award, named to honor the extraordinary legacy and leadership of esteemed SHLS Professor Marc Poirier. The award is presented to a graduating student whose pioneering spirit and courageous example has blazed a trail for others.
Jacob Barth

The Seton Hall Law School Dean’s Award, given to the student who epitomizes the Seton Hall Law values of Integrity, Loyalty and Engagement during their tenure at Seton Hall Law School.
Henna Shah

Women's Leadership Award, Presented to the outstanding law student in the graduating class who demonstrated academic achievement, exhibited motivation, tenacity and enthusiasm; contributed to the advancement of women in society; promoted issues and concerns of women in the legal profession; and earned the respect of the Dean and Law Faculty.
Katherine Ryan

Master of Legal Studies Award, established by the Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law and the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology, to recognize outstanding academic performance by a graduating student in the Master of Legal Studies program.
Jessica Cherubini

Seton Hall Law School has the distinction of being a member of the Order of the Coif. Coif is a prestigious honorary society that encourages excellence in legal education by fostering a spirit of careful study. It recognizes those who, as law students, attained the highest grade of scholarship. All graduates who are ranked in the top ten percent of the entire graduating class will be inducted into the Order of the Coif.
Phoenix Burke, Katherine Butler, Maureen Camacho, Robert Campbell, James Cavallaro, Thomas Duke, Elyse Genrich, Fern Holt, Stephen Ingersoll, Joshua Kutner, Julia Landi, Vincent Mallett, Carter Massengill, Salma Mohamed, Kirsten Nuber, Raquelle Rocco, Paige Rufolo, Chloe Schafer, Alexander Stolarz, Cayla Teehan, Nicholas Webb, Wendy Xia, and Julia Yu

The Deans and Faculty of Seton Hall Law School would like to recognize the outstanding scholastic achievement of the Top Five graduates.
Julia Landi
Fern Holt
Raquelle Rocco (S)
Robert Campbell (S)
Stephen Ingersoll (V)