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Writing Contests:
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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.
Congratulations to John New (class of 2007)
for winning the William J. Pierce Writing Contest, sponsored
by the National Council of Commissioners on Uniform State
Laws.
Sponsor/Title: American College
of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Writing Competition.
Topic: Any topic dealing with consumer
financial services law..
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: December 1, 2006.
Sponsor/Title: Jones Day/Antitrust Writing
Competition.
Topic: Submissions should emphasize practical
analysis of antitrust problems.
Prizes: First place, $10,000; two
honorable mentions, $1,500 each.
Deadline: December 31, 2006.
Sponsor/Title: National Conference
of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws/William J. Pierce Writing
Contest.
Topic: Submissions should address a uniform
or model act, or an issue arising from a uniform or model
act promulgted by NCCUSL.
Prizes: First place, $500 and consideration
for publication.
Deadline: December 31, 2006.
Web site: http://www.nccusl.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: January 5, 2007.
Web site: http://www.aclm.org
Sponsor/Title: American College
of Legal Medicine/Hoffman Bioethics Student Writing Competition.
Topic: Any aspect of bioethics, i.e.,
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: January 5, 2007.
Web site: http://www.aclm.org
Sponsor/Title: 2006-2007 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 2006 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.
(Electronic versions of winning papers will be required).
Deadline: January 16, 2007.
Sponsor/Title:
American Indian Law Review Writing Competition.
Topic: Any issue concerning American
Indian Law.
Prizes: First place, $1,000 and
publication of the paper; second place, $500; third place,
$250..
Deadline: January 31, 2007.
Web site: http://www.law.ou.edu/lawrevs/ailr
Sponsor/Title:
Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems/Trandafir International
Business Writing Competition.
Topic: Submissions should address a contemporary
international business or economic issue.
Prizes: First place, $2,000 and
publication of the paper.
Deadline: February 1, 2007.
Web site: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/journals/tlcp/trandafir.php
Sponsor/Title: Federal Bar
Association Taxation Section Writing Competition.
Topic: Any topic concerning federal income
taxation.
Prizes: First place, $1,500, publication
in Section newsletter, and trip to annual conference; second
place, $750 and publication in Section newsletter.
Deadline: February 1, 2007.
Web site: http://www.fedbar.org
Sponsor/Title:
American Immigration Law Foundation/Edward L. Dubroff Memorial
Legal Writing Contest.
Topic: Any aspect of American immigration
and nationality law.
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: March 12, 2007.
Web site: http://www.ailf.org
Sponsor/Title: Pacific Legal
Foundation Program for Judicial Awareness/ Student Writing
Competition.
Topic: Submissions should address one
of the following topics: (1) whether the rationale of Grutter
v. Bollinger, which accepted racial diversity as a compelling
state interest in law school admissions, should be extended
to K-12 public school classrooms; (2) how to resolve the tension
between the rights of private property owners and collective
environmental values; and (3) whether Justice Scalia's plurality
opinion in Rapanos v. United States or Justice Kennedy's concurrence
should guide future interpretations of federal regulatory
authority under the Clean Water Act.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; first
runner-up, $3,000; second runner-up, $1,500.
Deadline: May 31, 2007.
Web site: http://www.pacificlegal.org/?mvcTask=writingCompetition
Sponsor/Title: Faculty of Law, University
of Alberta/Holocaust Remembrance Essay Award.
Topic: Any topic addressing the relationship
between law and the Holocaust.
Prizes: First place, $500 (Canadian).
Deadline: July 1, 2007.
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