Previous Writing Competitions
This list of Previous Writing Competitions may be helpful as you make long-range plans. Often, sponsors repeat their contests, and the deadline may fall at the same approximate time of year. If you are interested in a Writing Competition on this list, please verify the topic, prize, and due date with the sponsor. For a list of current Writing Competitions with upcoming deadlines, please click “Currently Active Writing Competitions.”
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Members of the ABA?s Law School Division may submit papers addressing a current topic in a legal area covered by one of the substantive law committees of the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section.
Due Date: 4/1/2013 |
Any hot topic in international arbitration.?
Due Date: 4/1/2013 |
Papers should address any legal issue regarding affordable housing and/or community development law.
Due Date: 3/8/2013 |
The topic for this year's writing competition is:
Due Date: 3/25/2013 |
Submissions to the Trandafir Writing Competition may address any topic of contemporary international business or economic concern with a legal nexus.
Due Date: 3/1/2013 |
We invite papers on current issues regarding bankruptcy jurisdiction, bankruptcy litigation, or evidence in bankruptcy cases or proceedings. The paper may address business or consumer cases and may include matters such as bankruptcy sales, plan confirmation and other topics that involve jurisdiction, litigation or evidence in the bankruptcy courts.
Due Date: 3/1/2013 |
?The article must have a publication date of the previous year even if it actually printed at a later date. The article may have appeared in any publication printed at your law school, including law reviews and journals, and may be a note, a comment, or an article. The subject of the article can be devoted to any legal topic. The length of the article is not limited. Only one article may be submitted on behalf of a law school. Only deans or their designees may nominate an applicant. At least one author or coauthor must have been enrolled in the calendar year when the article was published. Coauthors are permitted. Please provide the name, address, telephone number, fax and email of each contributing author. This completed nomination form together with a copy of the article should be submitted online at www.burtonawards.com and must be received by February 20, 2013. If mailed, the nomination form must still be filled out online and two hard copies must be sent. Please note: A 150 word narrative biographical summary written in the third person will be required for each winner together with a color photo. While competition is very keen, for convenience purposes, the bio and photo can be submitted electronically at the time of the application.
Due Date: 2/20/2013 |
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.
Due Date: 2/13/2013 |
In Spring 2013, the US Supreme Court is likely to issue its decision on Kiobel v. Royal?Dutch Petroleum, 621 F. 3d 111 (2d Cir. 2010), cert. granted, 80 U.S.L.W. 3237 (U.S. Oct.?17, 2011) (No. 10-1491), involving a claim under Alien Tort Statute, which allows US?courts to recognize cause of action for violation of the law of nations occurring within?the territory of a sovereign nation other than the US. Here is your chance to weigh in as?an amicus curiae on how the court should rule.? Associate Justice Antonin Scalia will present the winner(s) at a US Supreme Court?evening reception on Friday, April 27, 2013 during the ABA International Section Spring?2013 Meeting ?
Due Date: 2/1/2013 |
Friends of IT-Lex, who are also law students in good standing at an ABA accredited law school, can enter our technology law writing competition.
Due Date: 2/1/2013 |
The CAP Essay Contest is intended to foster debate, analysis and examination of state alcohol regulation and its implications for citizens across the United States. The?prompt for this year's contest is "This year marks the 80th anniversary of the 21st ammendment. Has it achieved its intended purpose?"
Due Date: 12/5/2013 |
This year marks the 80th Anniversary of 21st Amendment.? Has it achieved its intended purpose?
Due Date: 12/5/2013 |
Phanor J. Eder J.D. Prize in Comparative Law.? Submissions will be accepted on any subject in public or private comparative law from students currently enrolled in a J.D. or LL.B program, who will not have recevied their degrees as of April 1, 2014. Prize awarded for the best paper submitted by an LL.B. or J.D. student.? One or more honorable mentions will also be awarded.? Winner(s) will receive a modest stipend to enable the author(s) to present their papers at the Annual Conference. ?
Due Date: 12/31/2013 |
Eligible entries will address a topic on consumer financial services.? Topics that are predominantly securities regulation, insurance, or the safety-and-soundness aspects of banking regulation are not eligible.? However, works on subjects within these (or other) areas will be considered, if they bear directly on consumer financial services.
Due Date: 12/2/2013 |
Canadian military and security, irregular warfare, geopolitical issues, intelligence, military history, joint operations, nuclear proliferation, human security, environmental security, strategic thought, emerging threats and terrorism.
Due Date: 12/2/2013 |
Students should succinctly explain their vision to benefit the public interest in the context of a suggested new or improved regulatory instrument or approach in a field of their choice. The student should then describe in detail the specific regulatory instrument or approach that would be used and how it would be implemented according to his/her vision in the selected field. The regulatory instrument or approach should be based on lessons from at least four case-studies. At least two case studies must be used from Global-Regulation database and at least two case-studies must be found from some other source. Students are encouraged to use lessons from different fields, industries, or jurisdictions.
Due Date: 11/1/2013 |
For the 2013 competition, submissions must address the following topic: What changes should be made to the civil discovery rules to better facilitate the just, speedy, and inexpensive resolution of matters?
Due Date: 10/18/2013 |
The topic for submissions to the 2013 National Security Law Writing Competition is Nuclear Issues and National Security Law: student analysis of a timely issue at the intersection of law and national security.
Due Date: 10/1/2013 |
Any original paper concerning federal taxation between 20-50 double spaced pages is welcome.
Due Date: 1/7/2013 |
Submissions to the Hirsch Bioethics Student Writing Competition may deal with any aspect of legal medicine, including medical licensure and regulation of the profession, business aspects of medical practice, physician liability, managed care organizations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, public health law, the physician-patient relationship, care of special patients, food and drug law, medical research, forensic science, and the history of legal medicine. ?
Due Date: 1/4/2013 |
The 2013 topic is: Is Democracy for Sale?\ Have?Citizen United's holdings run amok? Intent to Enter: January 31, 2013
Due Date: 1/31/2013 |
The Competition seeks submissions of academic papers on the topic of international humanitarian law (IHL) from students currently enrolled in a law degree program in the United States or abroad. The purpose of the Competition is to enhance scholarship and deepen understanding among students in this important area of international law.
Due Date: 1/31/2013 |
?Entrants should take advantage of the fact that health law is a very broad and diverse field, encompassing aspects of almost every area of law. Papers may address any traditional area of the law as applied to health care (e.g., antitrust, tax, corporate) or areas of law unique to health care (e.g., fraud and abuse, managed care, Medicare/Medicaid, clinical trials). Entries in the top 20 percent will be considered for publication in the Annals of Health Law, which is published by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Due Date: 1/25/2013 |
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.
Due Date: 1/22/2013 |
The Ladas Student Writing Award will be given to the best paper on the subject of trademark law or a matter that directly relates to or affects trademarks.
Due Date: 1/18/2013 |
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