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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: 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: Grammy Foundation, Entertainment
Law Initiative Legal Writing Contest.
Topic: A compelling legal issue facing
the music industry.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; second
place (four), $1,500.
Deadline: Entries must be submitted
no later than January 7, 2005.
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
24, 2005.
Website: http://www.ebglaw.com/article_1055.pdf
Sponsor/Title: American Indian Law Review
Writing Competition.
Topic: Any issue concerning American
Indian Law.
Prizes: First place, $1,000 and
publication of paper; second place, $500; third place, $250.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
no later than January 31, 2005.
Website: http://www.law.ou.edu/lawrevs/ailr
Sponsor/Title: 2004-2005 Louis Jackson National
Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law (co-sponsored
by the Institute for Law and the Workplace and the Jackson
Lewis Firm)..
Topic: Papers may address any topic relating
to the law governing the workplace, such as employment law,
labor law, employee benefits, or employment discrimination.
Only the first two submissions per law school will be accepted
as entries for consideration. Submissions must be the law
student author's own work and must not be submitted for publication
elsewhere. Authors must have completed or be currently taking
course work in employment or labor law, and must be enrolled
in an accredited law school during the Fall 2004 semester.
There are formatting guidelines that must be followed.
For questions, contact Professor Martin H. Malin by email
at mmalin@kentlaw.edu.
Prizes: One top honors award of
$3,000 and two $1,000 awards will be presented to the top
three entries. In addition to the cash awards, the top three
entries will be published on the Institute for Law and the
Workplace website. (Diskette versions of winning papers will
be required).
Deadline: Submissions are due no
later than Wednesday, January 19, 2005.
Website: http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilw/jackson.html
Sponsor/Title: American Constitution Society
2005 National Comment Competition.
Topic: A topic related to developing
a progressive vision of the Constitution in the 21st century,
or critiquing a conservative interpretation or theory.
Prizes: First place, $1,500 and
offer of publication; second place (two), $500.
Deadline: Entries are due on February
11, 2005.
Website: http://www.acslaw.org
Sponsor/Title: DuPage County Bar Association.
Topic: Any topic, both scholarly and
practical.
Prizes: First place, $2,500 and
publication of article.
Deadline: Entries must be received
by February 15, 2005.
Website: http://www.dcba.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: Sovereignty Symposium, Chief
Justice John B. Doolin Writing Competition.
Topic: Any area of the law relating to
Native Americans or other indigenous peoples..
Prizes: First place, $500; second
place, $300; third place, $200.
Deadline: Entries must be received
no later than March 15, 2005.
Website: http://www.oscn.net
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: International Association
of Defense Counsel Legal Writing Contest.
Topic: 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 18, 2005.
Website: http://www.iadclaw.org
Sponsor/Title: Foley & Lardner LLP Intellectual
Property Writing Competition.
Topic: Acceptable topics are as broad
as a candidate'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 I.P. licensees.
Prizes: One $5,000 prize to a first-year
law student; one $5,000 prize to a second-year law student;
three honorable mention prizes.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
no later than May 15, 2005.
Website: http://www.foley.com/IPwritingcompetition
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: Pacific Legal Foundation Program
for Judicial Awareness Writing Competition.
Topic: Submissions should be on one of
three topics listed in the contest rules. Briefly, the topics
are: (1) Is there a principled basis for applying a more deferential
standard of review to development exactions imposed by legislative
enactment rather than administrative fiat? (2) Can the 5th
Circuit's decision in GDF Realty Investments v. Norton, involving
an application of the Endangered Species Act, be reconciled
with the Supreme Court's modern Commerce Clause jurisprudence?
(3) Is the concept of balancing governmental "givings"
against governmental "takings" consistent with the
purpose and function of the Takings Clause?
Prizes: First place, $5,000; first
runner up, $3,000; second runner-up, $1,500.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
by no later than May 31, 2005.
Website: http://www.pacificlegal.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
Sponsor/Title: Theodore Tannenwald,
Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and American
College of Tax Counsel, Tannenwald Writing Competition.
Topic: Any topic in the field of taxation.
Prizes: First place, $3,500; second
place, $2,500; third place, $1,500.
Deadline: Entries must be received
no later than July 1, 2005.
Website: http://actconline.org/
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