July 1, 2017 -- deadline for 2017 Warren E. Burger Prize competition (open to judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars) $5,000 prize and publication

The American Inns of Court invites judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars, and other authors to participate in the Warren E. Burger Prize writing competition. Please submit an original, unpublished, essay of 10,000 to 20,000 words on a topic of your choice addressing issues of legal excellence, civility, ethics, and professionalism.

• 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

Submission deadline: Postmarked no later than July 1
Winner Announced: August 31
Presentation: October 21, 2017 during our Celebration of Excellence, which is held annually at the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC.

More information:  here

Friday, April 28 deadline - Legal Ethics -- $2,500 first place

Smith Doheny Legal Ethics Competition -- entries must be submitted by April 28, 2017.  Any topic in legal ethics, up to 50 pages.  Law students may co-author.  One prize, $2,500.

More information:  here

February 28 deadline - Criminal Law --

The Criminal Law Section of the State Bar of California is pleased to announce the 2016-2017 Marshall M. Schulman Annual Competition for Student Papers in Criminal Law and/or Criminal Procedure. This is a nationwide competition; while the focus is on California law, past winners have included students attending schools across the country.

GRAND PRIZE
♦ $1500 cash prize
♦ The Grand Prize –winning paper will be published in the Criminal Law Journal, the official quarterly publication of the Criminal Law Section of the State Bar of California
♦ One-year student membership in the Criminal Law Section


♦ $500 cash prize (three honorable mentions)
♦ Each of the papers awarded Honorable Mention status will be published in the Criminal Law Journal, the official quarterly publication of the Criminal Law Section of the State Bar of California
♦ One-year student membership in the Criminal Law Section


To be eligible for consideration, the paper must be written solely by a student enrolled in law school at the time the author submits a paper to this Competition.

Papers should be between 1,500 and 4,500 words (including citations) and should follow the citation style of The Blue Book:  A Uniform System of Citation.  Papers that have previously been published in a book, journal, magazine, or newspaper are not eligible.

Submit in Word format and send by e-mail attachment to each of the following Criminal Law Journal co-editors:

Anne Perry (anne.perry2@usdoj.gov);
Lani Biafore (lanibiafore@gmail.com)

More information is here:  link

April 17, 2017 deadline - Legal History $500 up to $1,000 travel to AALL

The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LHRB) of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Gale Cengage Learning, announces the annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen, late Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Cohen's scholarly work was in the fields of legal research, rare books, and historical bibliography.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage scholarship in the areas of legal history, rare law books, and legal archives, and to acquaint students with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and law librarianship. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The competition is open to students currently enrolled in accredited graduate programs in library science, law, history, and related fields. Both full- and part-time students are eligible. Membership in AALL is not required.

The winner will receive a $500.00 prize from Gale Cengage Learning and up to $1,000 for expenses associated with attendance at the AALL Annual Meeting.The winner and runner-up will have the opportunity to publish their essays in LH&RB’s online scholarly journal Unbound: An Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books.

For more information, click:  here

 

June 12, 2017 deadline - Food and Drug Law Institute

Thomas Austern Writing Competition -- June 12, 2017 deadline

Students currently enrolled in a JD Program at any of the nation’s ABA-accredited law schools or a 2016-2017 academic year graduate are eligible to participate. A committee comprised of FDLI members who are practicing attorneys and law professors will judge the papers. Top papers will receive a monetary prize, FDLI membership, and will be considered for publication in the Food and Drug Law Journal.

Last year's winning topics

 First Place: “Superfoods” or “Frankenfoods”? The Biotechnology Debate, Ayah Sultan, Harvard Law School
 Conflicting Disclosure Obligations under the Federal Securities and Drug Regulatory Regimes, Joe Milner, Harvard Law School Killing U.S. Slowly: Curing the Epidemic Rise of Cancer Drug Prices, Emily White, Boston University School of Law

Honorable Mention: The Influence of OIRA Review on FDA Regulatory Acts, Colleen Campbell, Harvard Law School

More details here:
Thomas Austern Writing Competition

J.D. or LL.M. candidates -- Annual Trusts & Estates Writing Competition - June 15, 2017 deadline

Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition

					First place:  $ 5,000 and publication in the ACTEC Law Journal.
						Second place:  $ 3,000, online publication on ACTEC’s website;
						Third place:  $ 1,000, online publication on ACTEC’s website. Plus potential honorable mention awards.

Eligibility: This competition is open to any law student in good standing (full-time or part-time) who is currently or recently enrolled at the time of submission or during the 90-day period prior to submission as a J.D. or LL.M. candidate in an ABA-accredited law school within the United States or its possessions.

Area and Topics: The paper must relate to the area of trusts and estates, broadly defined. Any one or more of the following topics are appropriate for discussion:
	Business Planning
	Charitable Planning
	Elder Law
	Employee Benefits
	Fiduciary Accounting
	Fiduciary Administration
	Fiduciary Income Taxation
	Fiduciary Litigation
	Estate Planning and Drafting
	Professional Responsibility
	Substantive Laws for the Gratuitous Transmission of Property
	Wealth Transfer Taxation (Estate, Gift and GST Tax)   Deadline for submission: The submission must be received on or before June 15, 2017. An otherwise eligible submission will be considered as part of any 2018 writing competition if it is received after June 15, 2017 and before June 15, 2018 by a law student who was in good standing at an ABA-accredited law school within the United States or its possessions law at the time the paper was submitted.   Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition

Application Deadline: Friday, February 17, 2017 -- 8th Annual High School Speech Competition -- Bailey & Oliver Law Firm; Rogers, Arkansas

8th Annual

High School

SPEECH COMPETITION

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Offices of Bailey and Oliver Law Firm 

3606 W. Southern Hills Blvd., Ste. 200

Rogers, AR  72758

Guidelines for Competition:

ü Write a Persuasive Speech Covering the Assigned Topic

Should the U.S. Constitution be rewritten and modernized?  Why or why not?

ü Only One Note Card Allowed During the Speech Presentation

ü Speech Time Limit:  5 Minutes

ü Business Attire

Prizes Include

1^st Place $300--2^nd Place $200--3^rd Place $100

1^st   2^nd and 3^rd place winners will also receive a plaque.

All competitors receive a DVD of their speech.

Application deadline:  Friday, February 17, 2017   

Need more information?  Contact Kim Daniels,

Community Relations Director, Bailey & Oliver Law Firm

kdaniels@baileyoliverlawfirm.com or 479-202-5200

February 28, 2017 National Law Review Submission Deadline for Students

Entries for the January  contest must be submitted via email to lawschools@natlawreview.com by 5:00 pm Central Standard Time February 28, 2017.  Winners will be published in early March.

 

 

The top two to four articles chosen will be published on the NLR website.

Each winning article will be displayed accompanied by the student’s photo, biography, contact information, law school logo, and any copyright disclosure
  http://www.natlawreview.com/NLR-law-student-writing-competition