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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.
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: Association
of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, Inc./Securities
Law Writing Competition.
Topic: Any subject in the field of securities
law.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; second
place, $3,000; third place, $2,000.
Deadline: November 15, 2006.
Web site: http://www.secalumni.org
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: GRAMMY Foundation
Entertainment Law Initiative Legal Writing Contest.
Topic: Submissions should address a compelling
legal issue facing the music industry.
Prizes: First place, $5,000 and
publication of the paper; second place (four winners), $1,500
each and publication of the papers.
Deadline: January 5, 2007.
Web site: http://www.grammyfoundation.com
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:
International Trademark Association/Ladas Memorial Award Competition.
Topic: Submissions should be on the subject
of trademark law or a matter that direclty relates to or affects
trademarks.
Prizes: First place, $2,000.
Deadline: January 10, 2007.
Sponsor/Title:
National Center for Nonsmokers' Rights/Legal Research and
Writing Contest.
Topic: Submissions should propose an
idea for a novel legal or law-related action to protect or
advance nonsmokers' rights.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; second
place, $3,000; third place, $1,000. In addition, 25 special
$1,000 travel grants will be given to contestants to attend
the Fourth World Conference on Nonsmokers' Rights in April
2007.
Deadline: January 15, 2007.
(Note: Initial entrants need submit only a 1,000-word
summary of their proposal by the January 15 deadline. Only
the 25 finalists are required to prepare complete papers.)
Web site: http://nosmokingcontest.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: Epstein Becker
& Green P.C./Health Care and Life Sciences Law Writing
Competition.
Topic: Any traditional area of law as
applied to health care and life sciences (e.g., antitrust,
tax, corporate) or areas of law unique to health care and
life sciences (e.g., fraud and abuse, managed care, Medicare/Medicaid,
clinical trials).
Prizes: First place, $4,000; second
place, $2,000; third place, $500.
Deadline: January 26, 2007.
Web site: http://www.ebghealthlaw.com
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 College of Trial
Lawyers/Law Student Essay Contest on Judicial Independence.
Topic: Judicial independence and the
separation of powers doctrine.
Prizes: First place, $10,000; second
place, $5,000.
Deadline: March 1, 2007.
Web site: http://www.actl.com
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: Hofstra Law
School and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
(AFCC)/Family Law Writing Competition.
Topic: Any area of family law, although
topics that focus on international or interdisciplinary subjects
of family law are especially encouraged.
Prizes: First place, $500 and consideration
for publication; honorable mention (up to two), $250 and consideration
for publication.
Deadline: March 15, 2007.
Web sites: http://www.hofstra.edu/academics/law/law_center_family.cfm
and http://www.afccnet.org
Sponsor/Title: American College
of Trust and Estate Counsel/Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing
Competition.
Topic: Submissions should address one
or more legal issues in the area of trusts and estates and
related taxation..
Prizes: First place, $1,000.
Deadline: May 1, 2007.
Web site: http://www.actec.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: American Society of Composers, Authors
& 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: June 30, 2007.
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.
Website: http://www.ascap.com
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.
Sponsor/Title: The Theodore Tannenwald,
Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and the American
College of Tax Counsel/Tannenwald Writing Competition.
Topic: Any federal or state tax topic.
Prizes: First place, $3,500; second
place, $2,500; third place, $1,500.
Deadline: July 2, 2007.
Other Information: Each submitted
paper must be sponsored by a professor at the student's law
school.
Website: http://abanet.org/lsd/competitions/writing-contests/home.html
or http://americantaxpolicyinstitute.org
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