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