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Writing Contests:
Information Provided by Dean Sowle's Office
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Week
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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 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: IDEA: The Intellectual Property
Law Review/Student Intellectual Property Writing Competition.
Topic: A compelling issue in intellectual
property law.
Prizes: First place, $500 and publication
of article; second place, $200.
Deadline: March 2, 2007.
Web site: http://www.idea.piercelaw.edu
Sponsor/Title: Houston Journal of International
Law/James Baker Hughes Prize.
Topic: Any subject concerning international
economic law.
Prizes: First place, $500 and publication
of article.
Deadline: March 2, 2007.
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: Sovereignty
Symposium XX/Chief Justice John B. Doolin Writing Competition.
Topic: Any area of law relating to Native
Americans or other indigenous peoples.
Prizes: First place, $500 and publication
of article; second place, $300; third place, $200.
Deadline: March 15, 2007.
Sponsor/Title: American Bar Association Administrative
Law and Regulatory Practice Section/Gellhorn-Sargentich Law
Student Essay Competition.
Topic: Any problem or issue arising at
the intersection of constitutional and administrative law,
federal or state.
Prizes: First place, $500 and consideration
for publication.
Deadline: March 30, 2007.
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: April 27, 2007.
Sponsor/Title: Paralyzed Veterans
of America Legal Writing Competition.
Topic: Should Congress create a specialized
court with jurisdiction over claims appealed from federal
agency disability and benefits programs such as the Department
of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration?
Prizes: First place, $3,000; second
place, $1,500.
Deadline: April 30, 2007.
Web site: http://www.pva.org
Sponsor/Title:
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys/NAELA Student Journal
Writing Competition.
Topic: Any topic related to the intersection
of law and aging, elder or disability planning.
Prizes: First place, $1,500; second
place, $1,000; third place, $500.
Deadline: May 1, 2007.
Web site: http://www.naela.org
Sponsor/Title: The Judge
John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation/Brown Award for Excellence
in Legal Writing.
Topic: No limitation on topic except
that the submission must be on a legal subject.
Prizes: First place, $10,000.
Deadline: May 1, 2007.
Other information: Submissions must be nominated
by a law school faculty member.
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:
Willamette Center for Law and Government/National Writing
Competition on the 10th Amendment.
Topic: Submissions should address one
or more issues, historic or contemporary, involving the principles
underlying the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Prizes: First place, $5,000; second
place, $3,000; third place, $2,000.
Deadline: May 15, 2007.
Web site: http://www.willamette.edu/wucl/clg
Sponsor/Title: Foley &
Lardner Intellectual Property Writing Competition.
Topic: Any topic addressing intellectual
property topics such as patents, copyrights, domain names,
trademarks, computer law, and trade secrets law.
Prizes: First place, $5,000 (for
one first-year law student and one second-year law student);
three Honorable Mention prizes.
Deadline: May 15, 2007.
Web site: http://apps.foley.com/students/opportunities/ipwritingcontest/
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: 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, $3,000 scholarship
and publication of article; first runner-up, $2,000 scholarship;
third place, $1,000 scholarship.
Deadline: June 1, 2007.
Web site: http://nlgla.org
Sponsor/Title: American Planning
Association, Planning and Law Division/Smith-Babcock-Williams
Student Writing Competition.
Topic: A question of significance in
either planning or areas of law germane to planning (e.g.,
land use, local government or environmental law).
Prizes: First place, $2,500; second
place, $1,000; Honorable Mention (up to two), $250.
Deadline: June 8, 2007.
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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