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Writing Competitions

Competition Topic Deadline Award Contact Flyer
ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence Tenth Annual Student Writing Competition Domestic violence and the law from a national or international perspective 05/31/2013 1st: Publication in American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law; 1st, 2nd, & 3rd: Resolution from the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and national publicity dvwriting@americanbar.org More...
American Judges Association Twenty-Fifth Annual Law Student Essay Competition Hearsay 06/01/2013 1st place: $3000; 2nd place: $1500; 3rd place: $1000 aja@ncsc.org More...
University of Connecticut School of Law Student Legal Writing Competition Homelessness, Mental Illness, Addiction, or Substance Abuse 06/03/2013 $750 cash first prize; $500 cash second prize; $250 cash third prize. Professor Jennifer Mailly: Jennifer.Mailly@law.uconn.edu More...
The Judge John R. Brown Award for Excelllence in Legal Writing 06/07/2013 $10,000 Brown Foundation c/o Kenneth G. Engerrand, Brown Sims, P.C., Tenth Floor, 1177 West Loop South, Houston, Texas 77027-9007 More...
APLA Student Paper Prize Competition The State; citizenship; civil society; colonialism and post-colonial public spheres; nationalism; cultural politics; multiculturalism; cosmopolitanism; globalization; immigration and refugees; resistance; religious institutions; and communicative media. 06/15/2013 $350.00, plus travel expenses of up to $650.00 if the prize winner attends the 2012 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (San Francisco) to receive the prize in person. The prize winner will be announced in Anthropology News, and the winning paper will be published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Erica Bornstein elbornst@uwm.edu  
Animals and the Law Student Writing Competiion Animal Law 07/01/2013 $1,000, $500 Kim Hojohn, Liaison, Committee on Animals and the Law, New York State Bar Association, One Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207 More...
Tannenwald Writing Competition Tax Law 07/01/2013 $5,000, $2,500 and $1,500. Provided that the first-prize paper has not been published or accepted for publication elsewhere, the Foundation has arranged for the publication of such paper in The Florida Tax Review (subject to the normal review and editorial processes of that journal). Nancy Abramowitz 202-274-4164 (nabramo@wcl.american.edu) More...
American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize Excellence in legal skills, civility, ethics, and professionalism 07/15/2013 The author of the winning essay will receive a cash prize of $5,000. The essay will be published in the South Carolina Law Review. The prize will be presented to the recipient at the American Inns of Court annual Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States Cindy Dennis at (571) 319-4703 or cdennis@innsofcourt.org  
James E. Beckley Writing Competition in Securities Arbitration Law Securities Law 09/20/2013 $1,000, $750, $500 Robin Ringo, rsringo@piabafoundation.org More...
Asian Society of International Law Student Workshop on Research in International Law International Law 11/13/2013 asiansil-conferences@nus.edu.sg More...