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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: American College of Employee
Benefits Counsel Writing Competition.
Topic: Any topic in the field of employee
benefits law.
Prizes: First place (two), $1,500.
Deadline: Entries must be submitted
by April 15, 2005.
Website: http://www.acebc.com
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: The Judge John R. Brown Scholarship
Foundation, Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing.
Topic: There is no restriction on the
topic except that it must be on a legal subject.
Prizes: First place, $10,000.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
no later than April 22, 2005.
Sponsor/Title: Notre Dame Law School Smith-Doheny
Legal Ethics Writing Competition.
Topic: Any issue within the general category
of legal ethics.
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be received
before 5 p.m., April 29, 2005.
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: American Judges Association/American
Judges Foundation Law Student Essay Competition.
Topic: Essays must be under the category
of criminal law; recent decisions in search and seizure..
Prizes: First place, $3,000; second
place, $1,500; third place, $1,000.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
no later than June 1, 2005.
Website: http://aja.ncsc.dni.us
Sponsor/Title: American Planning Association
Student Writing Competition.
Topic: A question of significance in
planning, planning law, land use law, local government law
or environmental law.
Prizes: First place, $2,500; second
place, $1,000; honorable mention, $250.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
no later than June 6, 2005.
Sponsor/Title: National Lesbian & Gay
Law Association, Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition.
Topic: A cutting edge legal issue affecting
the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and/or Intersex community.
Prizes: First place, $1,000 and
publication of article.
Deadline: The deadline for submissions
is June 15, 2005.
Website: http://www.nlgla.org
Sponsor/Title: American Inns of Court Warren
E. Burger Writing Competition.
Topic: One or mor aspects of legal excellence,
civility, ethics or professionalism in the American legal
community.
Prizes: First place, $5,000 and
publication of article.
Deadline: The deadline for submissions
is June 15, 2005.
Website: http://www.innsofcourt.org
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,
at each participating law school.
Deadline: Entries must be certified to
the Society no later than June 30, 2005.
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 well in advance of the June
30 deadline.
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/
Sponsor/Title: Stanford Technology Law Review
Paper Contest.
Topic: Issues at the intersection of
law and technology.
Prizes: First place, $1,000; second
place, $500; third place, $250.
Deadline: The deadline for submissions
is October 17, 2005.
Website: http://stlr.stanford.edu
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