Laila Sayegh

About me!

Hi! I am a senior here at Clarkstown North and this is my first year in science research. Some facts about me are that I am on student council, I enjoy spending time with my friends and family, and I am very interested in studying political science and the law.

My Research

The primary focus of my research is to analyze variance within Fourth Amendment protections, specifically regarding income and racial disparities. Additionally, I am inspecting the behaviors in police officers that prompt violent or aggressive police stops and searches. Over the summer, I took a course at Columbia University titled "The Supreme Court and Major Topics in U.S. Law," which is where I developed my passion for studying discrepancies beneath the law and the Constitutional standings behind them. It gave me a formative understanding of the law that allowed me to effectively further my research in this course.

Articles:

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/146206NCJRS.pdf

https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1236&context=rrgc