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Writing Contests:
Information Provided by Dean Sowle's Office
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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: 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: Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing
Competition (Customs and International Trade Bar Association
and Brooklyn Law School).
Topic: An in-depth analysis of a current issue
relevant to customs and international trade law.
Prizes: First place, $750; second place,
$250.
Deadline: Entries must be received no later
than May 1, 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: Food and Drug Law Institute 2001-2002 Writing
Competition.
Topic: Submissions should provide an in-depth analysis
of a current issue relevant to the food and drug field (e.g.,
a review of relevant case law, legislative history, and other
legal authorities involving the Food and Drug Administration,
the U.S. Department of Agruclulture, the Federal Trade Commission,
the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Institutes
of Health, the Codex Alimentarious Commission, or the Environmental
Protection Agency).
Prizes: First place, $1,500; second place, $1,000;
third place, $500.
Deadline: Entries must be received no later than May
17, 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: Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association.
Topic: Any aspect of aviation law, for example, tort
law, land use, patent law, fractional ownership, and FAA issues.
Prizes: First place, $250; second place, $100.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by June 1,
2002.
Sponsor/Title: Violence Policy Center, Alexander Hamilton
Second Amendment Student Writing Competition.
Topic: Critical examination of the decision of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in United States
v. Emerson, No. 99-10331, 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 22386 (October
16, 2001), in light of judicial precedent and historical and
legal scholarship on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Prizes: First place, $3,000.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no later than
June 3, 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: ABA Real Property, Probate
and Trust Law Journal Jacques T. Schlenger Student Writing
Contest.
Topic: A current topic dealing with real
property, probate, or trust law.
Prizes: First place, $2,000; second place,
$500; third place, $250.
Deadline: Entries must be received by June
15, 2002.
Sponsor/Title: American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition.
Topic: Any aspect of copyright law..
Prizes: First place, $600; second place,
$250.
Deadline: Entries must be certified to the Society
no later than June 30, 2002.
Other Information: Two winning papers will be
chosen, and awards given, at each participating law school.
Open to third-year (or, with permission, second-year) law
students. Each school will be responsible for choosing the
winning papers. Any Chicago-Kent student interested in submitting
a paper should contact Dean Sowle.
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.
Sponsor/Title: Young Lawyers Committee of
the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, Honorable
Scribe's Writing Contest.
Topic: Submissions should focus on a topic within
any of the following areas: evidence, civil rights, municipal
liability law, nursing home litigation, or construction negligence.
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: The deadline for submissions
is November 15, 2002.
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