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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: University of Leicester Victoria
Fisher Memorial Prize.
Topic: Women and the law.
Prizes: First place, 250 British
pounds.
Deadline: Entries must be received
by September 30, 2004.
Website: http://www.le.ac.uk/law/info/laugfish.html
Sponsor/Title: Asian Law Journal Student
Writing Competition.
Topic: Legal issues that impact the Asian
Pacific American community. Possible topics include, but ar
not limited to, Asian Pacific American political empowerment,
the use of "cultural defenses" in criminal law,
racial profiling, or Asian Pacific Americans and affirmative
action. However, submissions focusing on any legal issue affecting
Asian Americans will be considered.
Prizes: First place, $250 and publication
of the article.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
by October 22, 2004.
Sponsor/Title: Berkeley Women's Law Journal
Writing Award.
Topic: The Journal publishes pieces that
address the lives and struggles of underrepresented women.
In particular, the Journal seeks submissions that examine
the intersection of gender with one or more other axes of
subordination including, but not limited to, race, class,
sexual orientation, and disability.
Prizes: First place, $250 and publication
of the article.
Deadline: Entries must be received
by November 1, 2004.
Sponsor/Title: National Conference of Commissioners
on Uniform State Laws, William J. Pierce Writing Contest.
Topic: Entries must address a uniform
or model act, or an issue arising from a uniform or model
act promulgated by NCCUSL.
Prizes: First place, $500.
Deadline: Entries must be received
no later than December 1, 2004.
Sponsor/Title: American College of Consumer
Financial Services Lawyers Writing Competition.
Topic: Consumer financial services law.
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be submitted
before December 1, 2004.
Sponsor/Title: Legal Affairs Writing Contest
for Law Students.
Topic: Any argument about a significant
topic int he law.
Prizes: First place, $2,000 and
publication of essay; second place, $1,000; third place, $500.
Deadline: Entries must be submitted
before December 1, 2004.
Sponsor/Title: American College of Legal
Medicine Student Writing Competition in Bioethics.
Topic: Any aspect of bioethics, that
is, any ethical issues arising specifically within the health
care arena in the 21st century. Examples of suitable topics
would include the ethical implications of death and dying,
reproductive rights, bioterrorism, patient-physician relationship,
patient safety, public health, biological sciences, organ
donation and allocation, biomedical and behavioral research,
and medical genetics.
Prizes: First place, $1,000; second
place, $500; third place, $250.
Deadline: Entries must be submitted
by the end of the business day, January 5, 2005.
Website: http://www.aclm.org
Sponsor/Title: American College of Legal
Medicine Student Writing Competition in Legal Medicine.
Topic: Any aspect of Legal Medicine,
including medical licensure and regulation of the profession,
business aspects of medical practice, liability of physicians,
hospitals, managed care organizations, and pharmaceutical
manufacturers, public health law, the physician-patient relationship,
care of special patients, food and drug law, medical research,
forensic science, and the history of legal medicine.
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be submitted
by the end of the business day, January 5, 2005.
Website: http://www.aclm.org
Sponsor/Title: American Immigration Law Foundation
Edward L. Dubroff Memorial Legal Writing Contest.
Topic: Any aspect of immigration and
nationality law.
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be submitted
by March 14, 2005 (5:00 pm ET).
Sponsor/Title: American College
of Trust and Estate Counsel Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing
Competition.
Topic: One or more legal issues in the
area of trusts and estates and related taxation.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; second
place, $3,000; third place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be submitted
by April 1, 2005.
Website: http://www.actec.org
Sponsor/Title: NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund
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: Entries must be postmarked
or delivered on or before May 31, 2005.
Website: http://www.nradefensefund.org
Sponsor/Title: NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund
Scholarship Contest for Law Students.
Topic: Scholarships will be awarded to
law students who submit articles on the constitutional right
to keep and bear arms of quality suitable for publication
in a law review journal. Open to third-year law students (as
of Fall 2004).
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, 2005.
Website: http://www.nradefensefund.org
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