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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Any full-time or part-time law student currently enrolled in a J.D., LL.M. or S.J.D. program at a United States law school is eligible to participate.? All entrants must be a student member of the national American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and may join online at www.ACSLaw.org/join. The American Constitution Society welcomes all papers furthering and promoting a progressive vision of the Constitution, law, and public policy.? Entrants are encouraged to view this topic broadly.? Examples of possible topics include:? access to the courts, civil liberties, consumer rights, disability rights, freedom of speech, GLBT?rights, human rights, immigration, labor law, money in judicial elections, voting and the political process, privacy, protection of health, safety, the environment, racial equality, religion, second amendment and guns, separation of powers and federalism, and women's reproductive rights and reproductive freedom.?
Due Date: 2/11/2017 |
Any current issue involving labor or employment law.? The scope of permissible topics for the article is broad; i.e., any aspect of public or private labor or employment law.? Articles must be original from the applicant.? In addition, they must not have been submitted for other publication or written as part of paid employment.
Due Date: 12/8/2017 |
Students enrolled in law school anywhere in the world as of December 2017 and seeking a first degree in law, such as a juris doctor, LL.B. or an equivalent, are eligible to submit an article for consideration.? The general subject of this year's competition is any topic related to energy development.? This includes, for example, topics concerning oil and gas law, alternative energy resources, energy regulation, and environmental regulation of the energy industries. The article can be any work prepared by the student while enrolled in law school and can include prior works prepared for a law journal or a law school course, so long as the submitted version complies with the submission guidelines.
Due Date: 12/8/2017 |
Open to J.D. students.? Scholarship for the best legal blog post by a law student on any topic in litigation involving expert witnesses.? Article must be an unpublished, original submission.? To win, the article has to be logically rigorous and substantive, as well as engaging and entertaining.? Ideally, lay people should be able to understand and enjoy the article, while lawyers should find it useful and insightful.
Due Date: 12/31/2017 |
Each scholarship candidate must write an original paper on any legal issue of current interest in the area of entertainment, arts, or sports law.? Open to all law students attending an eligible law school:? an accredited law school within New York State, along with Rutgers University Law School, Seton Hall Law School, and up to ten other selected accredited law schools throughout the country on a rotating basis.
Due Date: 12/31/2017 |
The competition is open to students enrolled in an ABA?accredited law school during the 2017-2018 academic year.? Students of all backgrounds and identities are encouraged to apply. Entry topics should focus on a cutting-edge legal issue affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender communities.? Entries should not be previously published or scheduled for publication.? In addition, students who submit notes promise exclusive submission to the Dukeminier Student Writing Competition until January 15, 2018.? This means that the submission should not be in consideration at other journals before that date. ?
Due Date: 12/15/2017 |
Each year The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers seeks to recognize written contributions to the field of consumer financial services law.? Eligible papers include publishable articles, substantial book reviews, or book chapters; books; and student case note or comment.? In any year, depending on the quality of the submissions, awards may be made in all or some of these three categories.? Eligible entries must discuss some aspect of consumer financial services law.? Topics that relate principally to securities regulation, insurance, or the safety and soundness aspects of banking regulation are not eligible, but works on subjects within these (or other) areas will be considered, if they bear directly on consumer financial services.
Due Date: 12/1/2017 |
The Center for Alcohol Policy is sponsoring a writing contest for all interestedd participants who are over the age of 18 as of December 2017.? The contest topic is: The Supreme Court has recognized "temperance" as a permissible goal of state alcohol regulation.? Define temperance as it would apply in today's alcohol marketplace.? Is it still relevant today?? Should temperance still be recognized as a permissible goal of alcohol regulation?
Due Date: 12/1/2017 |
The competition is open to any law student in good standing and currently enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school, over the age of 21 and who is a citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States.? The Section will present an award, based on the excellence of the paper, to a law student who writes a substantive paper on any aspect of health law.? All submissions must be the work of the entrant.? Any relevant article or essay may be submitted for the competition, including writing submitted for academic credit.? Submissions must not have been previously published in any media.? A second place winning paper and additional awards will be named if deemed appropriate by the Section and may be published in The Health Lawyer magazine.
Due Date: 12/1/2017 |
The topic is any subject in the field of securities law.? Students must be enrolled at any accredited law school in the United States for the 2017 fall semester.? Unpublished papers, papers published in any law journal or other publication during the calendar year 2016, and papers scheduled for publication in 2017 or 2018 are eligible for submission.? Co-authored papers are not eligible.
Due Date: 11/10/2017 |
The competition is intended to encourage students of law to write on areas of public or private international law.? Law students (including J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. and S.J.D. candidates) are cordially invited to submit an entry.? The competition presents an opportunity for students to submit law review quality articles to the Section for possible publication in one of its publications. All articles submitted for the competition become the property of the Section.? No article submitted may be published in any journal or periodical other than the "New York State Bar Journal," the "New York International Law and Review," or the "International Law Practicum," until after the announcement of the winner of this competition in January.
Due Date: 11/10/2017 |
The 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 website.? No entry fee is required.? Applicants may submit an unlimited number of entries each month.? The top two to four articles will be published on the NLR website. ?
Due Date: 10/31/2017 |
Entrants must identify, research and write an essay with a proposed solution to a compelling legal issue confronting the music industry.? The contest is open to juris doctorate candidates currently enrolled at an ABA?accredited law school.? LLM and any other advanced degree candidates are not eligible.? All essays must be original works specifically written for the ELI Writing Competition.? Previously published works are ineligible.? The submission of works previously written for academic purposes is acceptable, provided that the work is edited to meet the guidelines of the competition and is not identical to prior academic work.
Due Date: 1/4/2017 |
Papers will be accepted on any issue concerning American Indian law or indigenous peoples.? However, topics recently published in the American Indian Law Review will not be favored. ?
Due Date: 1/31/2017 |
Papers will be accepted on any legal issue specifically concerning American Indians or other indigenous peoples.? The competition is open to students enrolled in J.D. or graduate law programs at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada as of the competition deadline of Wednesday, January 31, 2018.? Editors of the American Indian Law Review are not eligible to compete.
Due Date: 1/30/2017 |
The competition is open to J.D. and LL.M. students.? 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, telehealth/telemedicine).?
Due Date: 1/27/2017 |
The competition is open to currently enrolled law students, medical students, and doctoral candidates in related fields who attend an accredited graduate program of study in the U.S.? Submitted papers may be on any topic relating to disability law, including legal issues arising with respect to employment, government services and programs, public accommodations, education, higher education, housing, and health care.?
Due Date: 1/15/2017 |
The Center will present awards for outstanding original papers submitted by a law student and a medical student or medical resident in response to a quesiton pertaining to collaboration between the medical and legal professions.? The 2017 Contest Question is as follows:? There is a consensus that the U.S. health care system is frequently characterized by the excessive and unnecessary provision of medical services.? One of the impediments to rationalizing medical practice to reduce tests, procedures, and treatments that are not clinically indicated and appropriate for particular patients is the perception by practicing health care professionals that the prevalent and often overused tests, procedures, and treatments are compelled by the current American legal system, and that health care professionals' efforts to reduce the current waste and inefficiency will result in their expanded exposure to malpractice litigation and liability.? Discuss the ways in which the medical and legal professions may work together collatboratively to address the problem of excessive, unnecessary, wasteful, and inefficient provision o medical services in the U.S. All authors must be enrolled, at the time of paper submission, in an accredited law school or medical school (M.D. or D.O.) or participating in an accredited medical residency program in the United States.? No paper that has been previously published in any form will be considered; however, papers written for course credit are allowed as long as they have not been published.? An applicant may submit a paper for publication consideration after the winner of this writing competition has been announced. ?
Due Date: 1/1/2017 |
ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law Writing CompetitionCompetition is open to articles written while the author is a stueent at an accredited law school in the U.S.? Authors may not hae graduated from law school prior to 12/1/16.? LLM students are not eligible.? Entries 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 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.? Papers limited to the law of a single state will not be considered.
Due Date: 06/15/2017 |
Participants are invited to submit an original essay related to an aspect of federal theory or practice.? Given that the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism is being launched to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation of 1867, submissions that examine the past, present and future of Canadian federalism from comparative angles are particularly encouraged.? While essays can discuss any one of a wide range of topics related to federalism, the organizers are particularly interested in submissions centered on two particular aspects of the "federal phenomenon":? (1) The potential and challenges of federal constitutional design for complex multilingual, multicultural and multinational societies, including those with mixed legal systems and/or those seeking post-conflict reconciliation; (2) The institutions, mechanisms and constitutional principles that may enhance - or undermine - "good government" in federal systems.
Due Date: 9/30/2016 |
The submission may address any aspect of Securities Law; Securities Arbitration; The Federal Arbitration Act, Title 9, US Code, Section 1-14; or FINRA Code of Arbitration, effective April 16, 2007, and any changes or proposed changes to that Code. The competition is open to all students who attend a law school in the United States.? Full-time students who are not law students but who write law-related papers as part of a course at an American law school are also eligible.
Due Date: 9/16/2016 |
Any law student currently enrolled in an accredited law school in the United States seeking a J.D. or LL.B. degree is eligible to submit a paper.? There is no page limitation or restriction on the topic except that the writing must be on a legal subject. The article must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a law school faculty member or legal professional other than the author of the paper.? Only one paper may be submitted on behalf of any student and only one paper may be sponsored by any faculty member or legal professional.?
Due Date: 8/19/2016 |
The goal of this competition is to promote interest in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and its distinctive role in American Jurisprudence and to encourage law student scholarship on current topics that lie within its jurisdiction. Any law student in good standing currently enrolled at or graduated from an ABA acctredited law school during the 2015-2016 academic year may enter the competyition. ?Students are permitted to use as their entries (i) paperps that they prepared specifically for the competition or (ii ) papers that they prepared for law schoolc courses and seminars during the 2015-2016 academic year. See competition website (http://www.cfcbar.org/writing-competition) for further information.
Due Date: 7/15/2016 |
Scholarly paper relating to the topic of domestic or international religious liberty, broadly or narrowly construed. To promote legal and academic studies in the field of religious liberty by law students and students pursuing related graduate studies.? Students who have graduated from law school but who are not yet practicing law due to clerkships or other similar pursuits are also invited to submit papers.? In addition to 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, there will be four $1,000 Honorable Mention cash awards.
Due Date: 7/1/2016 |
The submission must be written by a student currently enrolled (full-time or part-time) in an ABA-accredited law school.? Students expecting to receive their degrees in 2016 are eligibile for consideration.? No paper that has been previously published in any form shall be considered.? One submission per entrant.
Due Date: 7/1/2016 |
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