2017 CULJP Awards
2017 Winner of Undergraduate Student Paper Award In Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
The Consortium for Undergraduate Law & Justice Programs is proud to announce the winner of the Undergraduate Student Paper Award in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies for 2017: Marie MacCune. Ms MacCune’s paper, “Studying the Father’s Rights Movement in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
Ms MacCune‘s paper was written as an honors thesis advised by Professor Lauren McCarthy at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. It offers a clear, passionate, and nuanced account of the father’s rights movement. The awards committee appreciated the integrity that Ms MacCune brings to her representations of her research subjects’ positions, and the nuanced theoretical work she does in mobilizing significant sociolegal themes.
Since graduating summa cum laud in 2017, Ms MacCune has worked with Legal Advocates of Massachusetts through Americorps. She is placed with the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee in Boston, where the staff represents clients facing abuse or discrimination because of their mental illness. She tells us that her work primarily focuses on prisoners’ and students’ rights under the larger umbrella of mental illness law. Ms MacCune plans to attend law school in fall, 2018.
Ms MacCune‘s paper was written as an honors thesis advised by Professor Lauren McCarthy at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. It offers a clear, passionate, and nuanced account of the father’s rights movement. The awards committee appreciated the integrity that Ms MacCune brings to her representations of her research subjects’ positions, and the nuanced theoretical work she does in mobilizing significant sociolegal themes.
Since graduating summa cum laud in 2017, Ms MacCune has worked with Legal Advocates of Massachusetts through Americorps. She is placed with the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee in Boston, where the staff represents clients facing abuse or discrimination because of their mental illness. She tells us that her work primarily focuses on prisoners’ and students’ rights under the larger umbrella of mental illness law. Ms MacCune plans to attend law school in fall, 2018.