Alex Kasner, JD ’15, Receives Award for Best Law Review Student Note

The long and complicated U.S. history with government leaks was the topic of conversation at the most recent National Conference of Law Reviews, with Stanford Law Review note, “National Security Leaks and Constitutional Duty,” by Alex Kasner, JD ’15, winning praise.

During the event’s Scribes Law Review Dinner in March, Kasner was honored with the 29th annual Scribes Law-Review Award for his article, which presents one of the first concentrated studies of the Constitution’s Article VI Oath Clause and the obligation it places on executive officers to resist unconstitutional government behavior.

The award is presented annually to the best student-written law review note published in the preceding year. Kasner’s submission was chosen out of 52 entries; he is the first Stanford Law School student to receive the award.

“I was obviously quite honored to hear that I had been selected for the Scribes Award,” Kasner said. “Looking at the history of past winners and reading some of their pieces, I was struck by the creativity of their topics and the careful and considered approaches they took to their legal analysis and writing.”