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Writing Contests:
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Week
of February 18, 2002 |
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New listings added for the current week,
if any, are indicated in italics. Print copies of the
rules and regulations governing the writing contests listed here are available
from Denise Lang in Suite 320.
Sponsor/Title: The NRA Civil Rights Defense
Fund 2001-2002 Law Student Essay Contest.
Topic: The right of the individual to keep and bear arms
as a federally protected right.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; second place, $3,000;
third place, $2,000; fourth place, $1,000.
Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked or delivered
no later than March 31, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: The Treatment Advocacy
Center.
Topic: Entries must address one of the following topics:
(1) Have courts accurately interpreted O’Connor v. Donaldson and how did
this and subsequent cases affect the power of courts to order treatment
for individuals with severe mental illness? (2) Examine the constitutionality
of assisted outpatient treatment (outpatient commitment) for individuals
with severe mental illness. (3) Would the current United States Supreme
Court decide that parens patriae-based civil commitments (rather than police
power-based ones) for individuals with severe mental illness are constitutional
and, if so, what parameters would it set for their use?
Prizes: First place, $1,500; second place, $750.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked on or before April
1, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: Alliance Defense Fund.
Topic: Same sex marriage: Protected by the free speech
clause of the First Amendment?
Prizes: First place, $7,500.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no later than April
16, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: International Association
of Defense Counsel.
Topic: Entries must address a subject of practical concern
to lawyers engaged in the defense or management of the defense of civil
litigation, such as, for examples, relevant aspects of tort law, insurance
law, civil procedure, evidence, damages, alternative dispute resolution
procedures, and professional ethics.
Prizes: First place, $2,000; second place, 1,000;
third place, $500.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked on or before April
16, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: Attorney-CPA
Foundation 2001-2002 Essay Contest.
Topic: Compare and contrast the similarities
and differences between retained earnings computerd under GAAP and earnigns
andprofits (E&P) computed for federal income tax purposes.
Prizes: First place, $2,500; second place,
$1,500; third and fourth places, $500 each; four regional prizes, $250
each.
Deadline: Essays must be received by May
11, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: Foley &
Lardner 3d Annual Intellectual Property Writing Competition.
Topic: Acceptable topics are as broad as the
author's initiative, creativity, and vision. Representative examples include,
but are not limited to: focus on metrics or other measurements of intellectual
asset management performance; protecting intellectual property rights to
maximize competitive opportunities; extracting untapped value from intellectual
property; auditing patents to determine whether they should be enforced,
licensed, donated, or terminated; identifying prospective intellectual
property licensees.
Prizes: $5,000 grand prize (one each for first-,
second-, and third-year law students).
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked not later
than May 15, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: American Judges
Association/American Judges Foundation.
Topic: None specified, although one of
the listed evaluation criteria is the topic's interest to a broad segment
of the judiciary.
Prizes: First place, $3,000; second place,
$1,250; third place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked not later
than June 30, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: NRA Civil Rights Defense
Fund and NRA Foundation, Inc.
Topic: Scholarships are available to third-year law students
who submit articles on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms of
quality suitable for publication in a law review.
Prizes: First place, $12,500 toward tuition; second
place, $5,000; third place, $2,500.
Deadline: Submissions must be received no later
than July 1, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: Theodore Tannenwald,
Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and the American
College of Tax Counsel.
Topic: Any topic in the field of taxation.
Prizes: First place, $3,000; second place,
$2,000; third place, $1,000.
Deadline: Submissions must be received no later than July
1, 2002.
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