Alcohol Policy, $5,000; $2,500; and $1,000 -- November 18, 2009 deadline

I blogged this competition a few months ago, but the flyers are out in the mailboxes now, suggesting that the entries need to start flowing in.

November 18, 2009 deadline.

Hailing from Arkansas, where some dry counties are still in existence, this blog editor finds this competition particularly interesting.

"State Regulation of Alcohol is Important Because . . . "

The range of winning entries from last year: 28 pages, double spaced with 178 footnotes, and 6 pages double spaced.

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image: wikipedia; raid at Elk Lake, Ontario

Securities Exchange Commission -- $5,000; $3,000; $2,000 -- November 13, 2009 (hard copy received by this date)

From the competition website:

The writing competition awards program is held in the fall of each year and is available to students registered at an accredited degree-granting law school in the United States. Both undergraduate and graduate law students are eligible. The topic may be any subject in the field of securities law.

Three cash prizes are awarded each year at the ASECA annual dinner. First place is $5,000; second place is $3,000; and third place is $2,000.

2009 Competition

Two copies of all submissions should be sent to the address below and must be received no later than November 13, 2009. Unpublished papers, papers published in any law journal or other publication during calendar year 2009, and papers scheduled for publication in 2009 or 2010 are eligible for submission. Co-authored papers are not eligible.

Papers will be screened by a panel of judges consisting of securities practitioners and law professors. The best papers will be submitted to the Board of Directors of ASECA, who will choose the award winners.

Award winners will be invited to attend the ASECA annual dinner, which will be held in Washington, D.C. on Friday, February 5, 2010. Travel and lodging for the first place winner will be reimbursed by ASECA up to $1,000 in actual expenses.

Submissions for the writing competition should be sent to:

ASECA
P. O. Box 5767
Washington, DC 20016

Submissions in hard copy must be received by November 13, 2009. E-mail submissions will not be accepted.

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National Endowment for the Humanities; October 29, 2009 deadline

Collaborative Research Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities: October 29, 2009 deadline.

This is the first time I've even peeked at a federal grant site. It looks daunting, but like anything else, it's finite, understandable, and a big deal, if you get one. If you've got some free time on your hands, it might be worth your while, to spend the next four weeks or so figuring out how to write a grant proposal, and then perfect it before the October 29, 2009 deadline. If you're at a university, you'll need to work with the committee that protects human subjects -- your Institutional Review Board; the campus also will have a research liaison who will help you work through the minutiae.

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Looking around the internet for recent studies the NEH has funded, I found this one, for $25,000 ... from the "Enduring Questions Program" ... something to think about for next year probably, because the Enduring Questions deadline is September 15, 2009:

Northfield, Minn.–– Laurence Cooper, Carleton College associate professor of political science, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the "Enduring Questions" program of the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a new freshman seminar.

The proposed seminar, “Cosmos or Chaos: Views of the World, Views of the Good Life,” will address the question of what it means to live well. Students in the course will consider some key visions of the character of the world and of how to live a good life, as developed through extensive reading, discussion, and writing about Homer, the Biblical books of Genesis, Exodus, and the Gospel of Matthew, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine’s Confessions, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and other notable thinkers.

Cooper, who received his Ph.D. from Duke University, has published two books: Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life (1999) and Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche: The Politics of Infinity (2008). He teaches courses in ancient and modern political philosophy.

The NEH received 180 proposals for "Enduring Questions" grants and made just 20 awards . . .
link

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The NEH has set out a full year's worth of deadlines, and I'll be looking for it's 2010 calendar to post on this blog. The calendar that's currently displayed is a 2009 calendar, and the October 29 date is the latest one I noticed.

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Image: Søren Kierkegaard 1806-1882 (wikipedia). The cutline for this wikipedia image says: The works of Søren Kierkegaard overlap into many fields of the humanities, such as philosophy, literature, theology, psychology, music, and classical studies.

University of Idaho Writing Competitions Page - January 2010 deadlines

I've been uniformly impressed with the timeliness and thoroughness of the University of Idaho site for writing competitions. It's got several January 2010 deadlines noted, and rather than pick and choose one of them with a hat tip, here's a link to the Idaho page.

It's also through that page, and then spelunking around links from it, that I discovered Will Simpson's open-source photography.

Dispute Resolution; November 15, 2009; $2,500 plus travel (New Orleans in April)

The International Ombudsman Association has announced that it is sponsoring an annual writing contest for students in law school or graduate programs in dispute resolution. In the inaugural contest, law students are invited to submit articles arguing for a statutory privilege for organizational ombudsmen. The author of the winning article will receive a cash prize of $2,500 and an invitation to the IOA Annual Conference in April 2010 in New Orleans to receive the award. IOA will provide registration, airfare and lodging for the conference. The winning article may also be published in the Journal of IOA. Submissions are due November 15, 2009

Submission information: here (pdf)

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