Civil Liberties & Nat'l Security - $10,000 -- July 1, 2009

Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize

Civil Liberties & National Security - $10,000, plus travel to Chicago for public presentation of ideas in the paper -- deadline July 1, 2009

Call for submission of outstanding articles or books on a topic exploring the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society. Submission should be in draft form or have been published within six months prior to the July 1, 2009 deadline.

$10,000 prize stipend for the winner, plus expense paid trip to Chicago-Kent to present the ideas in the winning article or book.

Entries by July 1, 2009, to Ms. Tasha Kincade, assistant to Dean Harold J. Krent, at tkincade@kentlaw.edu.

For more details: http://www.kentlaw.edu/palmerprize/

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Photo, Li-ber-ty, Istanbul Archaeology Museum. (Wikipedia)

Public Utility, Communication, Transportation; June 1, 2009; $2,500 plus travel

Public Utility, Communication, Transportation; June 1, 2009; $2,500 plus travel.

This notice is drawn from the competition flyer, linked below as a Word document.

Papers should address an essay on a current topic of general interest in a legal area covered by the Section. The ABA Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law covers specific industries that provide certain important, in some cases, essential, services to the general public. The Section is organized into industry committees and practice committees that relate to areas of legal specialty (e.g. antitrust, labor, taxation and accounting) as they apply to those industries. These committees are identified on the Section's website. The Section will interpret the scope of the subject broadly to ensure that the Competition affords a great degree of flexibility in writing on these subject areas, but in any event the decision of whether a particular essay qualifies as to subject matter is entirely within the discretion of the Section.

Entrants are encouraged to write on subjects of national interest or significance, not state-specific issues. Entrants must submit their own original essay. Failure to submit an original essay will result in its disqualification and the selection of a new winner.

The winner will receive $2,500 cash, a free membership in the Section for one year after graduation, and airfare and hotel accommodations to attend the Section’s Fall Council Group Meeting. The winner will be announced in the Section's quarterly publication, Infrastructure. The winner’s essay will posted on the Section Web Site for approximately one year and be considered for publication in the Section's Annual Report. Any taxes are the responsibility of the winner.
By entering, the winner gives the ABA the right to reproduce any essay material submitted in any medium without time, use, or territorial limitation, as long as such is for noncommercial purposes. Entries will not be returned. All entries submitted to the ABA become the property of the ABA. Entries must be submitted to:

Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law
Student Writing Competition
American Bar Association
321 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60654

Attention: Ms. Susan Koz


Entries must be postmarked on or before June 1, 2009.


More information here (word document file)

Sebastian Miller (2008 Recipient of K. William Kolbe Law Student Writing Competition) -
A Description and Partial Evaluation of Transmission and Distribution Restructuring in the American and Russian Electricity Sectors

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Grasslands and subdivisions form distinct contrasts on the Colorado Front Range, Larimer County, Colorado.

Photography by Jeff Vanuga, Colorado, 2002 (Courtesy of Natural Resources Conservation Service)

Asian Pacific American - June 1, 2009 - $1,500 and publication

The following details are excerpted from the competition flyer, which appears in its entirety here (.doc format).


AEF Robert T. Matsui Annual Writing Competition

10,000 word limit (of which no more than 6,000 words shall constitute the substantive text, and no more than 4,000 words shall constitute footnote text). Your submission must be presented in electronic format, utilizing Microsoft Word (or similar) word processing program. For the 2009 competition, the submission may address any topic of interest to the applicant so long as it reasonably relates to Asian Pacific Americans and the law.

The winner of the 2009 competition will receive a monetary award of $1,500, and the winning entry will be published by the UCLA's Asian Pacific American Law Journal (APALJ), subject to the journal's standard editorial process and copyright policy. APALJ’s editing process may require additional substantive edits prior to publication. Please do not submit for the 2009 competition any manuscript that has previously been published, or that is concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Submissions shall be evaluated by a selection board comprised of selected members of the AEF board and the AEF writing competition board of advisers and two members of APALJ designated by APALJ's editor-in-chief, all of whom shall be ineligible to participate in the competition.

All submissions for the 2009 competition must have an electronic date stamp of no later than 6:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time), June 1, 2009. Submissions should be e-mailed to the following address: jchatsut@gmail.com. If the date stamp on your e-mail is after 6 pm EST on June 1, 2009, your submission will not be considered.

ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND (“AEF”)
P.O. BOX 2209, WASHINGTON, DC 20013-2209

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Image: Wikipedia, map of Asia.

Real Property, Trusts, Estates; June 19, 2009; $2,500 plus travel

This notice summarizes material at the ABA's website:

Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section's 2009 Student Writing Contest
All law and LL.M students currently attending an ABA-accredited law school are eligible.

Writing on real property, trust and estate law subjects of general and current interest.

More information, from Amanda Pauli at paulia@staff.abanet.org.
Deadline June 19, 2009.

First place prize: $2,500; a one year membership in the RPTE Section; round trip airfare and weekend accommodations to attend the RPTE Fall Leadership Meeting.

Second place ($1,500); third ($1,000).

More information at the competition flyer (pdf).

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Image from Earth Science World Image Bank.

Photographer: Michael Collier
Caption: The setting sun highlights these buttes and spires in Arizona's Monument Valley. These monuments of the valley are created as soft shales of the Cutler Formation erode away, leaving massive vertically jointed slabs of sandstone without support.

Environmental Law; April 6, 2009 $2,000

This notice is excerpted from the competition web page.









Fourth Annual “Endangered Environmental Laws” Student Writing Competition (2008-09)

Co-sponsored by The Environmental Law Institute
The American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
The National Association of Environmental Law Societies


(Washington, DC) — The Constitution has long been interpreted by the courts and understood by most Americans to support comprehensive environmental protections. However, arguments targeting the constitutional legitimacy of environmental laws continue to gain traction in the federal courts. To inform the debate, we invite law students to submit papers exploring current issues of constitutional environmental law.

AWARD: $2000 cash prize and an offer of publication in the Environmental Law Reporter.

TOPIC: Any topic addressing recent developments or trends in U.S. environmental law that have a significant constitutional or “federalism” component. (See sample topics below.)

ELIGIBILITY: Students currently enrolled in law school (in the U.S. or abroad) are eligible, including students who will graduate in the spring or summer of 2009. Any relevant article, case comment, note, or essay may be submitted, including writing submitted for academic credit. Jointly authored pieces are eligible only if all authors are students and consent to submit. Previously published pieces, or pieces that are already slated for publication, are ineligible.

DEADLINE: Entries must be received no later than 5:00 PM ET on April 6, 2009. Email essays (and questions) to Lisa Goldman at goldman@eli.org. You will receive a confirmation by email.

This competition was also blogged November 4, 2008.
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Image, water erosion. Photo by Gene Alexander, 1986. Dry desert and towering sandstone mountains in Monument Valley. Courtesy of NRCS Photo Gallery.