Temple Law’s Zoe Bertrand Wins Prestigious Ginsburg Award for Legal Writing

Temple Law’s Zoe Bertrand Wins Prestigious Ginsburg Award for Legal Writing

Zoe Bertrand, 3L, has been named the winner of the 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Pursuit of Justice” Legal Writing Competition, a prestigious honor awarded by the Philadelphia Bar Association. Her paper, A Constitutional Argument for D.C. Statehood, sheds light on the longstanding issue of disenfranchisement for Washington, D.C. residents. “I lived in Washington, D.C. for about 10 years before moving to Philadelphia for law school,” Bertrand said. “…