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Writing Contests:
Information Provided by Dean Sowle's Office
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Administration and Student Affairs home page
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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: Southern
Illinois University Law Journal Student Writing Contest.
Topic: There is no limit to the subject matter,
but the Journal hopes to attract fresh, cutting-edge, and
well-written legal commentary.
Prizes: First place, $500; top four entries
will be published in the Journal.
Deadline: The deadline for submissions
is March 15, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: Richmond
Journal of Law andTechnology Biennial Writing Competition.
Topic: Any law and technology topic, including
biotechnology, intellectual property, patent and trademark
law, and the Internet.
Prizes: First place, $1,200 in cash, $995
credit on a BAR/BRI Bar Review Course, free 3-day PMBR Multistate
Bar Review Course, and publication in The Richmond Journal
of Law &Technology; second place, $300 in cash, $500 credit
on a BAR/BRI Bar Review Course, free 3-day PMBR Multistate
Bar Review Course; third place, $200 credit on a BAR/BRI Bar
Review Course.
Deadline: Entries must be received no
later than March 15, 2002.
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: Santa Clara Computer & High Technology
Law Journal.
Topic: Legal issues surrounding advancements in technology.
Prizes: First place, $2,000; second place, $1,500;
third place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no later than
June 1, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: American
Planning Association, Planning and Law Division.
Topic: Entries should demonstrate original
thought on a question of significance in either planning or
areas of law germane to planning (e.g., land use, local government
or environmental law).
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no later
than June 7, 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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