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Writing Contests:
Information Provided by Dean Sowle's Office
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Academic
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Week
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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: Recording Academy
Sixth Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Legal Writing Competition.
Topic: Any legal topic facing the music
industry today.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; four
runners-up, $1,500 each.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
by January 2, 2004.
Website: http://www.grammy.com
Sponsor/Title: Epstein Becker & Green,
P.C. Health Law Writing Competition.
Topic: 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).
Prizes: First place, $4,000; second
place, $2,000; third place, $500.
Deadline: Entries are due on January
19, 2004.
Website: http://www.ebglaw.com
Sponsor/Title: American College of Legal
Medicine Student Writing Competition.
Topic: Any aspect of Legal Medicine
(the professional and academic discipline that concerns itself
with legal aspects of medical science, medical practice, and
other health care delivery problems).
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be received
no later than January 19, 2004.
Website: http://www.aclm.org
Sponsor/Title: American College of Legal
Medicine Student Writing Competition in Bioethics.
Topic: Any aspect of bioethics, that
is, any ethical issue arising specifically within the health
care arena in the 21st century.
Prizes: First place, $1,000;
second place, $500; third place, $250.
Deadline: Entries must be received
no later than January 19, 2004.
Website: http://www.aclm.org
Sponsor/Title: 2003-2004 Louis Jackson
National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor
Law.
Topic: Any topic relating to the law governing
the workplace, such as employment law, labor law, employee
benefits, or employment discrimination.
Prizes: First place, $3,000; second
place (two awards), $1,000. The top three entries will be
published in the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
Deadline: Entries must be received
on or before January 19, 2004.
Website: http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilw/jackson.html
Sponsor/Title: American Indian Law
Review Writing Competition.
Topic: Any issue concerning American
Indian Law. However, topics recently published in the American
Indian Law Review will not be favored..
Prizes: First place, $1,000 and
publication of article; second place, $500; third place, $250.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
first class no later than January 31, 2004.
Website: http://www.law.ou.edu/lawrevs/ailr
Sponsor/Title: NRA Civil Right Defense Fund
Law Student Essay Contest.
Topic: The right of the individual to keep and
bear arms as a federally protect right.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; second place,
$3,000; third place, $2,000; fourth place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked or
delivered on or before May 31, 2004.
Website: http://www.nradefensefund.org/docs/writing_contest.html
Sponsor/Title: Pacific
Legal Foundation Fifth Annual Program for Judicial Awareness
Writing Competition.
Topic: One of the following topics: (1) In Lucas
v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992), the
Supreme Court held that compensation for a regulatory taking
is not required if the property use in question could have
been prohibited by “the restrictions that background principles
of the State’s law of property and nuisance already place
upon land ownership.” Discuss the “background principles”
exception to the Takings Clause, both as it was set forth
in Lucas and as it has been applied by lower courts since
then. Is this exception a useful mechanism for determining
when just compensation for a taking is due? (2) To what extent
should American courts look to foreign sources of law and
international conventions in determining the protections and
guarantees of the United States Constitution? (3) What should
be the limitations (if any) of federal authority to enforce
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act against wholly intrastate
employers, in light of recent Supreme Court decisions restricting
the scope of congressional power under the Commerce Clause?
Prizes: First place, $5,000; first runner-up,
$3,000; second runner-up, $1,500.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no
later than May 31, 2004.
Website: http://www.pacificlegal.org
Sponsor/Title: NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund
Scholarship Contest for Third-Year Law Students.
Topic: The constitutional right to keep and
bear arms.
Prizes: First place, $12,500 toward tuition;
second place, $5,000; third place, $2,500.
Deadline: Entries must be received on
or before June 1, 2004.
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