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Cardozo Cup Entries and 2025 Winner!

May 1, 2025

Each year, I challenge students to create original works of art commemorating the jurisprudence of Benjamin Cardozo. This year’s entries into the Cardozo Cup competition included:

This image of a Cardozo-like figure pouring ranch dressing on a pizza. I can’t imagine why students would think Judge Cardozo capable of such a sacrilege.

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Further encapulsating the course’s themes, the students supplemented their entry with a poem:

Justice Cardozo, so grand,
Held ranch and his pizza in hand.
He dipped with a grin,
Declared it no sin—
“Equity favors what’s bland!”

A candle and lapel pin

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An engraving, and an image of Judge Cardozo as a cat, Catdozo:

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And finally, the winning entry: a box that will correct you if you think that we should not listen to Judge Cardozo

Screenshot 2025-04-29 at 3.19.28 PMThanks to all for your participation and congratulations to the winner, Sean Robinson, pictured here accepting the Cardozo Cup from Dean Paula Dalley.

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