Sponsor/Title: 2013-2014 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law (co-sponsored by the Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Workplace and Jackson Lewis LLP).
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 2013 semester. There are formatting guidelines that must be followed (click here for details). For questions, contact Professor Martin H. Malin by email at mmalin@kentlaw.iit.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: Submissions are due no later than Tuesday, January 21, 2014.
Sponsor/Title: American Indian Law Review Writing Competition.
Topic: Any issue concerning American Indian law or indigenous peoples. However, topics recently published in the American Indian Law Review will not be favored.
Prizes: First place, $1,000 and publication of the article; second place, $500; third place, $250.
Deadline: January 31, 2014.
Web site: Click here.
Sponsor/Title: IT-Lex Technology Law Writing Contest.
Topic: Any technoogy law topic.
Prizes: First place, $6,000; second place, $2,000; third place, $1,000.
Deadline: May 2, 2014.
Web site: Click here.
Sponsor/Title: American College of Employee Benefits Counsel/Employee Benefits Writing Competition.
Topic: Any topic in the field of employee benefits law.
Prizes: Two $1,500 awards.
Deadline: June 3, 2014.
Web site: Click here.
Sponsor/Title: The Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship Writing Competition.
Topic: Submissions must focus primarily upon technical or policy-oriented tax issues relating to any type of existing or proposed U.S. federal or state tax or U.S. federal or state taxation system(including topics relating to tax practice ethical and professional responsibilities).
Prizes: First place, $5,000; first runner-up, $2,500; second runner-up, $1,500.
Deadline: July 1, 2014.
Web site: Click here.
Other: Submissions must be sponsored by a law school professor.