Labor and Employment -- 05/15/09 -- $1,500; $1,000, $500

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2009 College of Labor and Employment Lawyers Law Student Writing Competition.

TOPIC: The scope of permissible topics is broad, i.e., any aspect of public or private labor or employment law. Students are encouraged to present a:

• public policy issue,
• critique of a leading case or doctrine,
• comment on a statute or the need for a statutory modification,
• comment on a common law doctrine.

ELIGIBILITY: All currently enrolled undergraduate law students attending accredited law schools in the United States.

PRIZES: First prize - $1,500.00
Second prize - $1,000.00
Third prize - $500.00

In addition to a monetary award, the winner will have his/her article published in a future issue of the College newsletter and posted on the College's website. The Labor Lawyer, a journal of ideas and developments in labor and employment law, published by the American Bar Association and the Section of Labor and Employment Law, has indicated a strong desire to publish the winning entry, if it meets their publication standards। Winners will also be invited guests at the Annual Induction Dinner of the College where they will be recognized and honored during the evening program.

For more information: click here.

Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, Second Edition (University Casebook Series)

Here's another publication (that I know about) that gives scholarly writing in law school settings a focused treatment.

Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, Second Edition (University Casebook Series) (University Casebook Series) (Paperback)
by Eugene Volokh (Author)

Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar Papers, Law Review Notes, and Law Review Competition Papers

The first of two books of which I am aware, that discuss the writing process for competition papers is:

Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar Papers, Law Review Notes, and Law Review Competition Papers (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Fajans (Author), Mary R. Falk (Author)

GRAMMY_Foundation 01/02/09 -- $5,000 -- legal issue confronting the music industry

11th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Essay Competition Launched
The GRAMMY Foundation has launched its 11th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Essay Competition, a program that will award more than $10,000 in scholarships to promising entertainment law students.

Co-sponsored by the American Bar Association, the competition invites law students to write a 3,000-word paper on a compelling legal topic facing the music industry today. The competition will culminate with the winning student authors presenting their essays at the prestigious ELI Luncheon & Scholarship Presentation on Feb. 6, 2009. Additionally, each winner will receive airfare, hotel accommodations, and a ticket to the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2009, the MusiCares Person of the Year tribute, as well as invitations to other GRAMMY Week activities.

For the first time in program history, the Foundation has added ELI writing competition workshops at prominent law schools around the country with the goal of helping students with their essays. Dates have already been secured in Birmingham, Ala., Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, and Santa Clara, Calif. For additional information regarding dates or setting up a workshop, e-mail Loren Fishbein at loren.fishbein@grammy.com.

Also for the first time, ELI has partnered with www.box.net to allow students to upload their submissions directly over the Internet. Box.net's mission is to provide the tools to enable people around the world to share and exchange information and content online.

Submissions for the 11th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Essay Competition must be postmarked by Jan. 2, 2009. Winners will be announced on Jan. 30, 2009. For complete contest rules, send an e-mail to eli@grammy.com or click here.

Employment Law 1/20/09 -- $3,000 (1st) and $1,000 (2nd and 3rd)

Employment Law 1/20/09 -- $3,000 (1st) and $1,000 (2nd and 3rd)

2008-2009 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law; co-sponsored by Jackson Lewis LLP and the Institute for Law and the Workplace

TOPIC
Judges will consider papers on any topic relating to the law governing the workplace, such as employment law, labor law, employee benefits, or employment discrimination.

REQUIREMENTS & ELIGIBILITY
Entries must be the law student author’s own work and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors must have completed or be currently taking course work in employment or labor law, and must be enrolled in an accredited law school during the Fall 2008 semester. Only the first two submissions per law school will be accepted as entries for consideration.

FORMAT
Entries must be suitable for publication in a law review. Citations must conform to current Bluebook style. Papers must be printed on 8 1/2 by 11 inch white paper and must not exceed 35 pages in length, including footnotes, set in 12 point Times Roman font with double spacing and one inch margins.

SUBMISSION
The deadline for submission is Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Entries received after the deadline will not be considered. Entries should be mailed to:
Louis Jackson Writing Competition
c/o Institute for Law and the Workplace
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Illinois Institute of Technology
565 West Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60661-3691
CONTACT
Questions may be directed to Professor Martin H. Malin by e-mail to mmalin@kentlaw.edu.

Progressive Constitutional Law 2/20/09 -- $3,000 and $1,000 (2nd and 3rd prize)

The American Constitution Society welcomes all papers furthering and promoting a progressive vision of the Constitution, law, and public policy. Entrants are encouraged to view this topic broadly, and we welcome submissions on a variety of substantive areas. Examples of possible topics include:

· access to the courts,

· civil liberties,

· consumer rights,

· criminal justice,

· disability rights,

· freedom of speech,

· GLBT rights,

· human rights,

· immigration,

· labor law,

· voting and the political process,

· privacy,

· protection of health, safety, and the environment,

· racial equality,

· religion,

· separation of powers and federalism, and

· women's reproductive rights and reproductive freedom

Papers will be judged on the quality of their analysis and writing. The judging committee will include federal judges and leading academics. The top paper will also receive an offer of publication in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. The deadline for submissions is Friday, February 20, 2009.

We invite you to pass along this information to your fellow students and professors. To learn more about the competition, including information on registration, abstracts of past winning submissions and full copies of winning submissions, please visit the ACS National Student Writing Competition website. If you have any questions, please contact LadyStacie Rimes (Lrimes@acslaw.org) and/or Rachel Zuraw (Zuraw@law.upenn.edu).

Blog image from Wikipedia Commons: "Nuremberg Chronicles"

International Business $2,000 & Publication -- February 1, 2009 deadline

More details here: Trandafir Writing Competition

2008-2009 Competition Guidelines

Topic: Any topic of contemporary international business or economic concern with a legal nexus.

Award: Publication and a cash prize of $2,000.

Publication: The winning essay will be published in Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, a journal of the University of Iowa College of Law.

Eligibility: All students currently enrolled in law or graduate degree programs from any institution in the world.

Deadline: All mail entries must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2009. All electronically submitted essays must be received by Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems no later than 5:00 pm U.S. Central Standard Time on February 1, 2009. We will not accept late entries.

Official Rules:

(1) All essays must be typed, double-spaced on 8-1/2 inches x 11 inches paper (or A4 paper for non-US entries), with a 1 inch margin on all sides. Electronic submissions are acceptable, please send as an attachment to an e-mail with your name, address, phone number and e-mail address included.

(2) There is no minimum page requirement. The essay must not exceed 50 pages, including footnotes.

(3) Citations should follow rules published in The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed. 2005)

(4)Entries must include a cover letter containing the student's name, address, telephone number, name and address of the school which the student attends, and title of the student's essay. The student's name, school, or other identification should not appear on the actual essay.

(5) No essay shall be eligible which has been published or has an outstanding commitment for publication.

(6) All essays must be the work of an individual. Collaboration with others (other than the usual law review or seminar supervision) is prohibited.

Environmental Law $5,000 -- 1/30/08 Intent; 03/31/08 Submit

Click here for more details:
Roscoe Hogan 2009 Environmental Law Essay Contest

Tort Trial & Insurance Practice $1,500 plus travel, $500 second place -- 03/02/09

Tort Trial & Insurance Practice $1,500 plus travel, $500 second place -- 03/02/09

The subject is intended to include, but not be limited to, matters within any of the following areas: Admiralty and Maritime Law, Animal Law, Appellate Advocacy, Automobile Law, Aviation and Space Law, Business Litigation, Commercial Transportation Litigation, Employee Benefits, Employment Law and Litigation, Environmental Law, Excess Surplus Lines and Reinsurance, Fidelity and Surety Law, Government Law, Health and Disability Insurance Law, International Law, Insurance Coverage Litigation, Life Insurance Law, Media, Privacy and Defamation Law, Medicine and Law, Products Liability, Consumer Law, Professionals’, Officers’ and Directors’ Liability Law, Property Insurance Law, Insurance Regulation , Technology & Law, Title Insurance Litigation, Toxic Torts, Workers’ Compensation and Employers’ Liability Law, and Trial Techniques.

http://www.abanet.org/tips/lawstudent/LSWritingComp0809.pdf

The first-place winner will receive $1,500 cash, plus free round-trip airfare, and weekend accommodations to attend the ABA Annual Meeting (airfare and hotel accommodations). The first-place winner’s essay will be considered for publication in the Tort Trial & Insurance Law Journal, and may appear in an upcoming issue. The first-place winner will be announced in an upcoming issue of The Brief, the Section’s magazine. The second-place winner will receive $500 cash and honorable mention in The Brief. The third-place winner will receive an honorable mention in The Brief.

Last year's winners:

First place: Whitney R. Mauldin, University of Tulsa, College of Law, "Good Business/Bad Faith: Why the Insurance Industry Should Adopt a Good Faith Model"

Second place: Erica L. Bedenbaugh, Charleston School of Law, "Punitive Damages No Puny Problem: The Threat of Multiple Punishments After Philip Morris v. Williams"

Third place: Jill M. Fraley, Yale Law School, " The Government Contractor Defense and Superior Orders in International Human Rights Law."

Download those papers here: http://www.abanet.org/tips/lawstudent/competition.html

Essays must not exceed 35 pages of double-spaced typed text, including footnotes. Only one essay is to be submitted for each entrant. Entrants should write essays in traditional law review style, presenting a scholarly discussion with full citation to authority in footnotes.

Papers should address an essay on a current topic in a legal area covered by one of the Section’s substantive law committees. The Section will interpret the scope of the subject broadly to ensure that the Competition affords the greatest degree of flexibility in writing on these subject areas.

American Indian Law $1,000, $500, $250 -- 1/31/09

Winners of the 2008 Indian Law Writing Competition

• First Place: David DeKorte - University of Michigan Law School - "Thirty Years After Oliphant, the Guardian Is Still Not Guarding: The Dual-Edged Nature of Parens Patrie"
• Second Place: Jason Gubi - Fordham University School of Law - "The Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Protection of Native American Religious Practices"
• Third Place: Maria E. Jones - University of California, Hastings College of the Law - "Defending Bear Butte: Past, Present, and an Uncertain Future in the Battle Against Sturgis Motorcycle Rally"

Topics

Papers will be accepted on any issue concerning American Indian Law. However, topics recently published in the American Indian Law Review will not be favored.

Eligibility

The competition is open to students at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada who are enrolled as of the competition deadline. Editors of the American Indian Law Review are not eligible.

Awards

First Place - $1,000 and publication of paper in the American Indian Law Review, an official periodical of the University of Oklahoma College of Law with international distribution. Second place - $500. Third place -$250. The three winning authors will receive Felix S. Cohen 's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, provided by LEXIS. Other entries of publishable quality may also be published in the American Indian Law Review. These authors will be so notified.

Deadline

Submissions must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2009.

E-mail: ailr@ou.edu

More details: http://adams.law.ou.edu/ailr/competition.cfm

Embryo Law $2,500, $1,500, $1,000 3/2/09 with special incentive for 2/2/09 submissions

The Challenge: Write a scholarly position paper in response to a problem presented regarding embryo donation/adoption.

1st Place: $2,500.00
2nd Place: $1,500.00
3rd Place: $1,000.00

Submission Deadline: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:00 p.m. PST
* SPECIAL INCENTIVE FOR EARLY ENTRIES: All entries received by February 2, 2009, 5:00 pm PST will be eligible for a $500.00 BONUS award if their entry is selected as the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place winner. The panel reserves the right to make no award if a worthy essay is not submitted.


Purpose: Under a grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Nightlight Christian Adoptions is conducting a law student essay competition to raise awareness and increase interest in embryo donation and adoption.

Eligibility: The competition is open to currently enrolled students of ABA accredited law schools (including provisionally approved law schools). The essay must be the student's original, unpublished work. The paper may be prepared to satisfy a course requirement or for other academic credit. However, the essay must be the work of the submitting student without substantial editorial input from others. Co-authored papers are ineligible. Essay submission deadline is Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:00 p.m. PST.

Format: Entries should reflect scholarship and be presented in law review style. Essays must not exceed twenty-five (25) pages, including title, citations, and any footnotes. The text of the essay must be double-spaced, with twelve-point font and one-inch margins. Citations must be embedded in text or in footnote form; essays with endnotes will be disqualified. Cites must conform with the 18th Edition of The Bluebook: Uniform System of Citation.

All entrants create essays based on a specifically framed problem and legal issue.

This year's problem appears at: http://www.embryolaw.org/problem.asp

After a factual overview, the problem contains the following points of departure:

Advise the clinic as to the following:

1. What legal risks, if any, would the clinic be subject to if the original patients, or their heirs or assigns, would request possession of the embryos after a transfer of the embryos had been made to another patient?
2. What potential actions, if any, should be filed in court to assist the clinic in fulfilling its goal of transferring the embryos to other patients? Distinguish whether different actions would be recommended based on the distinctions among missing patients.
3. Assuming legal action was appropriate:
a. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Clinic's position using the following legal principles, as applicable, for analysis: Contract, Property, Probate and Parentage.

b.What authority should be cited in support of the clinic's request and what authority should be given to the court that would represent opposition to the clinic?s request?

Prior Winners:
1st Place: Callie Weed, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL
Unscrambling the Uncertainty: Interpreting Egg Donor Agreements as They Relate to Embryo Adoption

2nd Place: Jonathan Penn, Regent University School of Law, Virginia Beach, VA
A Different Kind of Life Estate: The Laws, Rights, and Liabilities Associated with Donated Embryos

3rd place: Julie Cuplin, St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, TX
2008 Embryo Law Essay Competition

More information: Here

Libertarian Perspectives, Pacific Legal Foundation 5/31/09 -- $3,000, $1,500

$3,000, $1,500
5/31/09 deadline

Pacific Legal Foundation

PRESENTS

THE TENTH ANNUAL PROGRAM FOR
JUDICIAL AWARENESS WRITING COMPETITION

The Program for Judicial Awareness invites law students to submit article-length essays in one of the following subject areas. Multiple prizes may be awarded in each subject area. Entries may be either theoretical or practice-oriented, and should discuss relevant legal precedent and existing literature.
I
Write an essay on a topic of your choice concerning the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without payment of just compensation."

II

Write an essay on a topic of your choice concerning the use of the precautionary principle in formulating environmental policy.

III

Write an essay on a topic of your choice concerning the use of racial categories in the admission or assignment of students in state-funded educational institutions.

1st Place: $3,000
1st Runner-Up: $1,500

More details: here

Trademark Law - Student & Professional 1/16/09 - $2,000 plus travel (for student winner)

Friday, January 16, 2009 deadline

The Ladas Award carries with it a US $2,000 cash award and a set of Stephen P. Ladas’ three-volume treatise. Award winners are also invited to attend the 2008 INTA Gala in Berlin, Germany at INTA’s 130th Annual Meeting. At the Gala, the winner will be recognized before the outstanding volunteers and leaders of the Association. The student winner will receive a travel and lodging stipend of up to US $1,000 to attend the Gala.

More details about the Ladas Award appear here: International Trademark Association Ladas Award


2008 Ladas Memorial Award Winners


Student Category Winner
Elizabeth Flanagan is a third-year law student at the University of Minnesota Law School. Ms. Flanagan won the 2008 Ladas Award in the Student Category for her paper, "No Free Parking: Obtaining Relief from Trademark-Infringing Domain Name Parking."

Professional Category Winners
Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis are the joint winners of the 2008 Ladas Memorial Award Competition in the Professional Category for their paper, "Confusion Over Use: Contextualism in Trademark Law." Graeme Dinwoodie is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Mark Janis is a Professor of Law at The University of Iowa.

Elder Law - June 1, 2009 -- $1,500 plus travel; $1,000, & $500 prizes

Announcing the 2009 writing competition sponsored by the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA): www.naela.com/pdffiles/2009WritingCompetitionflyerfinal.pdf.

The competition carries with it cash awards, a membership in NAELA, and publication of the winning articles in a special issue of the NAELA Journal.

The 2008 winners of the writing competition were:

1^{st -} Marc Adler, Seton Hall Law School, The Governments Cap on Dying: Why Is the Medicare Hospice Benefit Cap Being Exceeded and How Should This Problem Be Addressed?

2^nd Genevieve Jie-Ying Essig, U. of Virginia School of Law, Finding the Keys to the Problem of Aging Drivers.

3^rd Emily Demiray, U. of Akron School of Law, Taking Great Pains: The Role of Palliative Care in the Legal Competence Analysis.

Business Law -- 01/09/09 - $2,500; $1,000; $500 plus expense paid trip to Vancouver, BC

Complete information here: Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest

2008-2009 Academic Year

The prizes for the writing contest are:

• First Place: $2,500 to the first place winner to be presented at the Section of Business Law Spring Meeting in Dallas, TX.
• Second Place: $1,000 to the second place winner to be presented at the Section of Business Law Spring Meeting in Dallas, TX.
• Third Place: $500 to the third place winner to be presented at the Section of Business Law Spring Meeting in Dallas, TX.

Each winner will receive all expenses paid by the Section to attend the 2009 Spring Meeting in Vancouver, BC to collect his/her prize.

"Business Law" is a broad category. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled:

Agency Bankruptcy Business Law Business Organizations Commercial Law Consumer Law Contracts Corporate Finance Corporate Governance Corporations

Creditor's Rights Financial Institutions Employment Law Insurance Law Oil and Gas Law Professional Responsibility Remedies Secured Transactions Securities Regulations Uniform Commercial Code

2008 Winners

Winners and their respective topics and law schools are:

• First Place:
  Elena Schwieger, Catholic University Columbus School of Law
  Redefining the Private Placement Market After Sarbanes-Oxley: NASDAQ's PORTAL and Rule 144A
• Second Place:
  Jonas Anderson, Duke University School of Law
  Regulating Corporations the American Way: Why Exhaustive Rules and Just Deserts are the Mainstay of U.S. Corporate Governance
• Third Place:
  Scotland M. Duncan, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
  Fraud: The Result of Bad People or a Bad System? An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Governance

Law of War -- January 2, 2009 -- $500

The Lieber Society, an interest group of the American Society of International Law, bestows each year, without regard to nationality, a prize for an exceptional writing that enhances understanding of the law of war by a person serving in the regular or reserve armed forces of any nation.

The Prize. The winner will receive a Certificate confirming that he or she has won a Lieber Society Military Prize and a monetary grant of $500.00. The judges may also select up to two additional persons to receive Lieber Society Certificates of Merit for exceptional papers. Request for Assistance. Any person receiving this Call for Papers who is aware of an exceptional writing that meets the qualifications of this competition is requested to nominate the paper directly to the Lieber Society and forward this Call to the author of that paper.

Definition of the Law of War. For this competition, the Law of War is that part of international law that regulates the conduct of armed hostilities. Papers may address any aspect of the law of war, including, but not limited to: the use of force in international law, the conduct of hostilities during international and non-international armed conflicts, protected persons and protected objects, the law of weapons, rules of engagement, treatment of detainees, to include interrogation procedures, and occupation law. Papers addressing practical problems confronting members of armed forces are preferred. Qualifications for entering the competition. Persons submitting papers do not have to be ASIL members. They may be citizens of any nation, but they must be a member of, or retired from, his or her nation's regular or reserve armed forces. He or she does not have to be on active duty when the paper was prepared.

Papers that may be entered. Papers submitted in this competition must be in English (or translated into English if written in another language) and not more than 35 pages long if printed with single line spacing or 70 pages if written with double line spacing. Papers that have been published are acceptable for this competition. Papers that have not been published will be equally considered. A condition of considering a paper that has not been published, however, is that the author must give the Lieber Society authority to have the paper published in a journal of the Society's choice.

Required Contact Data. All submissions must contain the following data on the author of the paper: full name and rank or rating, if any; current postal and e-mail addresses; current telephone and fax numbers. If a person other than the author is making the submission, it must also contain the above data for the person submitting the paper.

Deadline for submitting papers. Papers for the 2009 competition must be received no later than Friday, 2 January 2009.

More details: Lieber Society Military Prize

Class Action Reports, Publication Opportunity

Details appear here:

2008 Beverly C. Moore Jr. Memorial Student Writing Competition

Prizes

Winning entries will be selected for publication in Class Action Reports.

Deadline

Submissions should be postmarked by Monday, December 1, 2008. Entries should be mailed to:

Class Action Reports
c/o Mary Brodner
Thomson Reuters/West
50 East Broad Street
Rochester, NY 14694

Administrative Law -- 02/13/09 $1,500 -- Open to Law Students and Law Graduates

Links to background and last year's winners of the The Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law: acslaw.org/node/5378

Deadline: Submissions must be emailed or postmarked by

February 13, 2009, 11:59pm EST. Papers postmarked after this date will not be considered. Papers may be emailed to cudahy@acslaw.org. Papers may also be sent in hardcopy to the following address:
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
Attn: Cudahy Writing Competition
1333 H St. NW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Eligibility: The competition is open to all. Practicing lawyers, policymakers, academics, and law students all are encouraged to take part. Coauthored submissions are eligible and if selected, the coauthors will share the prize. Each submission must be an original academic work that is either unpublished or was published no more than one year prior to the competition deadline (specifically, not before January 2008). If a submission has been published or accepted for publication, the author should consult the journal to make sure it will consent to ACS posting the publication on its website, with appropriate attribution.

Content: Submissions should be related to regulatory or administrative law, broadly construed. Appropriate subjects include empirical or comparative analyses of the effectiveness of specific regulatory regimes or of deregulation, doctrinal investigations of the development of administrative law rules or principles by courts and administrative agencies and the effects of that development, and normative analyses of how particular regulatory or administrative regimes or deregulation advance or fail to advance values of fairness, participation, and transparency.

Format: A wide range of formats are eligible and encouraged, from traditional full-length law review articles to less academic, lightly footnoted essays written to be accessible to a wide audience. Submissions should be less than 25,000 words. Shorter submissions are strongly encouraged.

Judging Process: All submissions will go through an initial screening process. Finalists from that process will be reviewed by the panel of judges. Submissions will be judged on their depth of analysis, quality of writing, readiness for publication, originality (in topic selection and treatment), and thoroughness of research. The winner will be announced at the Summer 2009 ACS National Convention. The 2009 Panel of Judges will be announced by the end of the year.

Deadline: Submissions must be emailed or postmarked by February 13, 2009, 11:59pm EST. Papers postmarked after this date will not be considered. Papers may be emailed to cudahy@acslaw.org. Papers may also be sent in hardcopy to the following address:
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
Attn: Cudahy Writing Competition
1333 H St. NW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Eligibility: The competition is open to all. Practicing lawyers, policymakers, academics, and law students all are encouraged to take part. Coauthored submissions are eligible and if selected, the coauthors will share the prize. Each submission must be an original academic work that is either unpublished or was published no more than one year prior to the competition deadline (specifically, not before January 2008). If a submission has been published or accepted for publication, the author should consult the journal to make sure it will consent to ACS posting the publication on its website, with appropriate attribution.

Content: Submissions should be related to regulatory or administrative law, broadly construed. Appropriate subjects include empirical or comparative analyses of the effectiveness of specific regulatory regimes or of deregulation, doctrinal investigations of the development of administrative law rules or principles by courts and administrative agencies and the effects of that development, and normative analyses of how particular regulatory or administrative regimes or deregulation advance or fail to advance values of fairness, participation, and transparency.

Format: A wide range of formats are eligible and encouraged, from traditional full-length law review articles to less academic, lightly footnoted essays written to be accessible to a wide audience. Submissions should be less than 25,000 words. Shorter submissions are strongly encouraged.

Judging Process: All submissions will go through an initial screening process. Finalists from that process will be reviewed by the panel of judges. Submissions will be judged on their depth of analysis, quality of writing, readiness for publication, originality (in topic selection and treatment), and thoroughness of research. The winner will be announced at the Summer 2009 ACS National Convention. The 2009 Panel of Judges will be announced by the end of the year.

Bioethics;01/09/09; $1,000 + travel to Las Vegas; also 2nd & 3rd Prizes

Hoffman Bioethics Student Writing Competition: Papers (3,000-5,000 words) may deal with any aspect of Bioethics. Examples of suitable topics would include the ethical implications of death and dying, reproductive rights, bioterrorism, patient-physician relationship, patient safety, public health, biological sciences, organ donation and allocation, biomedical and behavioral research, and medical genetics. To be considered for an award, papers must exhibit a strong emphasis on bioethics.

First Prize - $1,000 plus travel and lodging to Las Vegas Annual Meeting -- February 27-March 1, 2009
Second Prize - $500
Third Prize - $250

E-mail submissions due on January 9, 2009
Bioethics Competition Brochure

Legal Medicine; $1,000 -- 01/09/09 American College of Legal Medicine

Legal Medicine is the professional and academic discipline that concerns itself with legal aspects of medical science, medical practice and other health care delivery. Practitioners address the scope of the specialty from a scholarly, scientific, and practical perspective.

3,000 to 5,000 words -- papers written for scholarly classes will be considered.

American College of Legal Medicine will consider winning paper for publication in The Journal of Legal Medicine.

January 9, 2009 deadline for ON-LINE SUBMISSIONS. Details: The Letourneau Award to a Law Student

$12,500, $5,000, & $2,500 for 3L's only NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund

This competition is for 3L's only. Deadline is June 1, 2009

The NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund
2008-2009 Third Year Law Student Scholarship Writing contest

Description, Prizes & Deadline: Scholarships are being awarded to law students who submit articles on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The contest commences July 1, 2008. The article must be received by the Fund on or before June 1, 2009. The prizes are as follows: First place: $12,500 toward tuition; Second place: $5,000; Third Place: $2,500.

Eligibility: The contest is open to all individuals who are law students at the date of submission and who have not been previously admitted to practice law in the United States; such students shall be in good standing in an accredited law school as a 3rd year law school student as of Fall, 2008. Admission to practice after submission of the paper is not disqualifying.

Format and Contents: Papers must be of quality suitable for publication in a law review or journal, and cannot have been previously published. The author's full name, address, and phone numbers, as well as a brief discourse on the author's legal education, should accompany entries. Publication subsequent to submission is encouraged. Citations should conform with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, current edition. All entries become the property of the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.

Please mail your submission to:

Civil Rights Defense Fund
c/o Office of the General Counsel
11250 Waples Mill Rd.
Fairfax, VA 22030

Should you have any further questions please feel free to contact us at (703) 267-1268.

$5,000, $3,000, $2,000, $1,000 NRA Civil Rights Fund

June 1, 2009 deadline

2008-2009 Law Student Essay Contest

Description, Prizes & Deadline: The NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund is sponsoring a writing contest commencing July 1, 2008 and concluding June 1, 2009 for law students. The subject of the contest is "The Right of the Individual to Keep and Bear Arms as a Federally Protected Right." Scholarship prizes will be awarded to First, Second, Third and Fourth place winners in the amounts of $5,000, $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000 respectively.

Eligibility: The contest is open to all individuals who are law students at the date of submission and who have not been previously admitted to practice law in the United States. Admission to practice after submission of the paper is not disqualifying.

Format and Contents: Papers should be double spaced, not exceed 30 pages in length, exclusive of endnotes, of law review quality, and cannot have been previously published. Publication subsequent to submission is encouraged. Citations should conform with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, current edition.

Please mail your submission to:

Civil Rights Defense Fund
c/o Office of the General Counsel
11250 Waples Mill Rd.
Fairfax, VA 22030

Submissions must be postmarked or delivered on or before June 1, 2009. The author's full name, address, and phone numbers, as well as a brief discourse on the author's legal education, should accompany entries. All entries become the property of the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.

Should you have any further questions please feel free to contact us at (703) 267-1268.

NOV 15 HARD COPY RECEIPT DEADLINE: $5,000/$3,000/$2,000 Securities Law

Short deadline: November 15, 2008 for actual receipt of HARD COPY submission on "any subject in the field of securities law."
Long return: $5,000 (plus travel expenses); $3,000; $2,000 prizes.
Competition Site: Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni Writing Competition

For the 2008 competition, third year students who have already completed an article on a securities law topic are in the best position to enter this competition. Efficient second year students who can use the COMPETITION DEADLINE OF NOVEMBER 15 as a writing incentive to finish seminar papers or journal articles early, may also consider the 2008 opportunity.

In any case, the 2009 competition is projected to have a November 15, 2009 deadline, for those who would like to consider the competition for next year.

2007 Winners

The winners of the 2007 ASECA writing competition were:

First Place
($5,000) Simeon Mann
St. John’s University School of Law
“Too Far Over the Hedge: Why the SEC’s Attempt to Further Regulate Hedge Funds Had to Fail and What, If Any, Alternative Solutions Should be Considered"

Second Place ($3,000) Kevin O’Riordan
University of Minnesota Law School
“Clear Support or Cause for Suspicion: A Critique of Collective Scienter in Securities Litigation"

Third Place
($2,000) Andrew George
University of Virginia School of Law
“Public (Self)-Service: Illegal Trading on Confidential Congressional Information"

2006 Winners

The winners of the 2006 ASECA writing competition were:

First Prize ($5,000)	Mary M. Caskey Editor in Chief, Valparaiso University Law Review "Lifting the Fog: Finding a Clear Standard of Liability for Secondary Actors under Rule 10b-5"
Second Prize ($3,000)	Christopher T. Pickens George Mason University School of Law "Of Bookies and Brokers: Are Sports Futures Gambling or Investing, and Does It Even Matter?"
Third Prize ($2,000)	Stanislav Dolgopolov University of Michigan Law School "Insider Trading, Chinese Walls, and Brokerage Commissions: The Origins of Modern Regulation of Information Flows in Securities Markets"