<p>Marc Prokopchak, a third year law student, from Elizabethtown, Pa. won the Texas A&amp;M Journal of Property Law 2015 National Writing Contest Student Edition.</p>
<p>His submission titled &ldquo;Renewing Respect for Record Notice: Cleaning up the Pennsylvania Title Wash&rdquo; was the winning entry and will be published in the Texas A&amp;M Journal of Property Law.</p>
<p>Prokopchak became interested in the topic when he was interning at the US Middle District Court for Chief Judge Christopher Conner and a case with a quiet title action raised a title wash argument. &ldquo;The concept immediately grabbed my interest because it is so peculiar and also seems anathema to modern property law concepts,&rdquo; Prokopchak said.</p>