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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Third-Annual Criminal Record Policy Essay CompetitionFor our third annual law student writing competition, our goal is to continue to increase awareness of the impact of laws governing the retention and dissemination of criminal records by courts and state agencies, as well as the laws governing the public’s use of such records. 2019-2020 Essay Topics: How to improve the expungement process in (state of your choice) When, if ever, should government stop reporting criminal records to the public? What effects do criminal records have on former offenders ability to re-assimilate?
Due Date: 09/30/2020 |
2020 Aviation and Space Law Committee Law Student Writing CompetitionSubmissions should address a recent development in any area of aviation or space law or
Due Date: 09/09/2020 |
2020 Warren E. Burger PrizeThe American Inns of Court invites judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars, and other authors to participate in the competition. Please submit an original, unpublished, essay of 10,000 to 20,000 words on a topic of your choice addressing issues of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence.
Due Date: 07/01/2020 |
Christopher E. Bergin Award for Excellence in WritingThe Christopher E. Bergin Award for Excellence in Writing recognizes superior student writing on unsettled questions in tax law or policy. It is named in honor of the late Christopher E. Bergin, former president and publisher of Tax Analysts and longtime editor of Tax Notes Federal. The award, given annually, epitomizes the qualities that Chris championed. Submissions should focus on an unsettled question in federal, state, or international tax law or policy.
Due Date: 06/30/2020 |
H. Thomas Austern Writing CompetitionThe H. Thomas Austern Writing Competition is intended to encourage law students interested in the areas of law affecting FDA-regulated industries: food, drugs, medical devices, biologics, dietary supplements, cosmetics, veterinary, cannabis, or tobacco and nicotine products.
Due Date: 06/19/2020 |
Michael Greenberg Student Writing CompetitionThe Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition was established in memory of Michael Greenberg, a former National LGBT Bar Association board member and Philadelphia attorney who died in 1996 from complications of AIDS. This exciting competition is dedicated to encouraging and recognizing outstanding law student scholarship on the legal issues affecting LGBTQ+ persons. The winning article is considered for publication each year in the Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality: A Review of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Law, the first student-edited law review devoted to the intersection of LGBTQ+ issues and the law in the United States.
Due Date: 05/14/2020 |
Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing CompetitionAny current student at an American or Canadian law school may submit an essay (minimum of ten pages and maximum of fifty pages) on any legal ethics topic. The essays that are submitted to the competition will be judged on their clarity, coherence, creativity, insight, and mastery of rules and cases relevant to the topic of the essay in question.
Due Date: 04/24/2020 |
National Law Review 2019-2020 Law Student Writing CompetitionThe National Law Review (NLR) consolidates practice-oriented legal analysis from a variety of sources for easy access by lawyers, paralegals, law students, business executives, insurance professionals, accountants, compliance officers, human resource managers, and other professionals who wish to better understand specific legal issues relevant to their work. The NLR Law Student Writing Competition offers law students the opportunity to submit articles for publication consideration on the NLR Web site.
Due Date: 03/31/2020 |
22nd Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Writing CompetitionThe ELI Writing Competition challenges students to identify, research, and write an essay with a proposed solution on a compelling legal issue confronting the music industry. A nationwide panel of music law experts will judge the papers in a blind process to select a winner and two runners-up. This contest is open to Juris Doctorate (JD) and master of laws (LLM) candidates currently enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school.
Due Date: 01/02/2020 |
Companion Animal Law Writing ContestThis year’s contest focuses on two questions, the first one is state legislature’s animal control and enforcement laws’ bond-for-care provisions, and the second one is on fraudulent claims of emotional support and service animals. Open to all students enrolled at ABA-accredited law schools in the US.
Due Date: 11/30/2019 |
Any current issue involving labor or employment law. The scope of permissible topics for the article is broad. All law school students.
Due Date: 10/01/2019 |
The Competition is open to all law students in good standing and attending an ABA accredited law school in 2018. The Competition is open to all law students in good standing and attending an ABA accredited law school in 2018.
Due Date: 07/09/2019 |
Submitted papers must focus primarily upon technical or policy-oriented tax issues relating to any type of existing or proposed U.S. federal or state tax or U.S. federal or state taxation system (including topics relating to tax practice ethical and professional responsibility matters).
Due Date: 07/08/2019 |
Submitted papers must focus primarily upon technical or policy-oriented tax issues relating to any type of existing or proposed U.S. federal or state tax or U.S. federal or state taxation system (including topics relating to tax practice ethical and professional responsibility matters). The Competition is open to law students, undergraduate (J.D.) or graduate (L.L.M. or S.J.D.), enrolled full or part-time in a U.S. law school during the 2018/19 academic year
Due Date: 07/08/2019 |
Want to write an AMICI CURIAE for Submission to the US SUPREME COURT? The winner WILL BE SUBMITTED to the US SUPREME COURT for review. AT THE NEW YORK MARRIOTT TIMES SQUARE. With Special Guests: STEPHEN B. KAUFMAN American University HONORABLE J. BARONE Harvard Law
Due Date: 07/08/2019 |
The American Inns of Court invites judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars, and other authors to participate in the competition. please submit an original, unpublished, essay of 10,000 to 20,000 words on a topic of your choice addressing issues of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence.
Due Date: 07/01/2019 |
A scholarly writing competition that honors an outstanding article or book on a topic exploring the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American Society. The article or book must be in draft form or have been published within one year prior to the July 1 deadline. As a condition of accepting the award, the winner will present his or her work at Chicago-Kent. All reasonable expenses will be paid.
Due Date: 07/01/2019 |
The contest is open to students who, on the date the entry is submitted, attend and are in good standing at an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions. Membership in the Criminal Justice Section is not a requirement. Entrants must be at least 18 years of age and legal permanent residents or citizens of the United States. Employees, officers, directors of the ABA and members of their immediate families are not eligible, Topic: The Use of Drones by Law Enforcement - How should drones enhance public safety, how should drones be regulated, and what role does the Fourth Amendment Play?
Due Date: 07/01/2019 |
The Robert T. Matsui Annual Writing Competition was established by AEF in 2005 to honor the late Congressman Robert T. Matsui and his many accomplishments. Through this Writing Competition, AEF seeks to encourage legal scholarship on issues of importance to the Asian Pacific American community. The Competition is open to all law students and anyone who graduated from law school within the last five years.
Due Date: 07/01/2019 |
Papers should address a current topic of general interest in a legal area covered by the Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section. The section covers specific industries that provide certain important, in some cases, essential, services to the general public. This competition is open to law school students who, at the time of entry, (1) are in good standing during the academic year of the Competition, (2) currently attending an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions, (3) are U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident and (4) are at least 21 years old.
Due Date: 06/30/2019 |
Students are encouraged to submit articles on a subject relating to the protection of intellectual property. The article must have been written solely by a student or students either in full-time attendance at a law school (day or evening) or prepared in connection with a law school course. The article must be submitted to the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Submit paper: American intellectual Property Law Association, Watson Award Competition, watsonaward@aipla.org
Due Date: 06/28/2019 |
This competition is open to any law student in good standing (full-time or part-time) who is currently enrolled at the time of submission or was a student within the past 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. 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:
Due Date: 06/17/2019 |
ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law Writing CompetitionEntries should address aspects of public or private sector labor and/or employment law relevant to the American labor and employment bar. Students are encouraged to discuss novel issues, innovative ideas, or fresh perspectives on the following areas affecting labor and employment in the U.S. and/or abroad that would be noteworthy to the U.S.: a public policy issue; practical implications of a leading case or doctrine; a statute or the need for statutory modification; or a common law doctrine. Articles may address U.S. law, international law of relevance to U.S. labor and employment attorneys, or how a legal topic is treated in states across the country. This competition is open to articles written while the author is an active student at an accredited law school in the United States. Authors may not have graduated from law school prior to December 1, 2018. Graduate students in law school (LL.M candidates) are not eligible.
Due Date: 06/15/2019 |
ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law Writing CompetitionEntries should address aspects of public or private sector labor and/or employment law relevant to the American labor and employment bar. Students are encouraged to discuss novel issues, innovative ideas, or fresh perspectives on the following areas affecting labor and employment in the U.S. and/or abroad that would be noteworthy to the U.S.: a public policy issue; practical implications of a leading case or doctrine; a statute or the need for statutory modification; or a common law doctrine. Articles may address U.S. law, international law of relevance to U.S. labor and employment attorneys, or how a legal topic is treated in states across the country. This competition is open to articles written while the author is an active student at an accredited law school in the United States. Authors may not have graduated from law school prior to December 1, 2018. Graduate students in law school (LL.M candidates) are not eligible.
Due Date: 06/15/2019 |
Papers should provide an in depth analysis of a current legal or regulatory issue concerning FDA regulated industries: food, drugs, animal drugs, biologics, cosmetics, diagnostics, dietary supplements, medical devices or tobacco. Students currently enrolled in a JD Program at any of the nation’s ABA-accredited law schools or a 2018-2019 academic year graduate are eligible to participate.
Due Date: 06/10/2019 |
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