Student Legal Writing Competitions - May 2023
The following are writing competitions to which law students may be eligible to submit their writings. For future writing competition deadlines and competitions by subject, see the Library’s Student Legal Writing Competitions Guide.
Sovereignty Symposium
Deadline: May 1, 2023
American Association for Justice Law Student Scholarships
"AAJ has four scholarships available for qualified law students: Richard D. Hailey Scholarship ($5,000), Trial Advocacy Scholarship ($3,000), Leesfield/AAJ Scholarship ($2,500), and Mike Eidson Scholarship ($5,000). The 2021 Scholarship season will begin in February 2021."
Deadline: May 1, 2022.
Fitch Law Partners LLP Scholarships for Current & Future Law School Students
"Fitch Law Partners LLP will be awarding a scholarship to a current law school student as well as an undergraduate student with aspirations of going to law school. The goal of these scholarships is to help a promising lawyer of tomorrow with the financial cost of higher education. Our firm is proud to be investing in the education of future attorneys by helping students with their tuition expenses."
Deadline: May 1, 2022
Weisblatt Law Firm, LLC Scholarship
The 2021 essay topic was, "What duty, if any, does a business have to protect the general public during Covid-19? What about it’s employees? Support your position."
Deadline: May 3, 2021. Annual competition (currently suspended)
Annual AUWCL National Health Law Writing Competition
"This competition is designed to encourage law students to write scholarly papers on current topics of interest relevant to health law and/or food and drug law. Current 2L, 3L, and 4L (evening/part-time) JD and LLM students enrolled in a U.S. law school at the time of paper submission are eligible to participate."
Deadline: May 7, 2023
Michael Greenberg Writing Competition
This competition is dedicated to encouraging and recognizing outstanding law student scholarship on the legal issues affecting LGBTQ+ persons. The winning article is considered for publication each year in the Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality: A Review of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Law.
Deadline: May 13, 2022
Mary Rose Strubbe Labor & Employment Writing Prize
The Mary Rose Strubbe Labor & Employment Writing Prize was established to honor Professor Mary Rose Strubbe, who retired from the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2017. The Strubbe Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of legal writing in labor and employment law by a Chicago-Kent student or alumnus/a. Papers on any topic relating to the law governing the workplace, such as employment law, labor law, employee benefits, or employment discrimination are eligible for the prize.
Deadline: May 13, 2022 at 11:59 CST. Annual competition.
American Association of Law Libraries/LexisNexis Call for Papers
"Papers, which may be submitted by active or retired AALL members, or by students in library, information management or law school, may address any subject relevant to law librarianship."
Deadline: May 15, 2023. (Student Division)
Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition
"Essay may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives."
Deadline: May 16, 2022 at 11:59pm EDT. Annual competition.
Epstein Becker Green Annual Health Law Writing Competition
"Papers may address any traditional area of the law as applied to health care (e.g., antitrust, tax, corporate) or areas of law unique to health care (e.g., fraud and abuse, managed care, Medicare/Medicaid, clinical trials, telehealth/telemedicine). Entries ranked in the top 20 percent of all competition submissions may be considered for publication in the Annals of Health Law."
Deadline: May 19, 2023
"The Jan Jancin Awards are merit-based scholarship awards that recognize rising second and third year law students from diverse backgrounds who are underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities, who have expressed an interest in pursuing a career as an IP lawyer, and who have engaged in activities reflecting that interest."
Deadline: May 26, 2023. Annual competition.
Annual IDEA Student Intellectual Property Writing Competition
"the paper must focus on intellectual property law"
Deadline: Friday, May 28, 2021. Annual competition. (currently suspended)
Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Section Student Writing Competition
"Articles must relate to an intellectual property law issue or the practice of intellectual property law."
Deadline: May 31, 2021. (currently suspended)
Georgetown Law Technology Review Student Writing Competition
Deadline: May 31, 2022
The Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation Writing Competition
There is no page limitation or restriction on the topic except that the writing must be on a legal subject.
Deadline: postmarked no later than May 31, 2022. Annual.
American Bar Association Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Student Writing Competition
"The goal of the Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law student writing contest is to encourage and reward law student writing on the subjects of real property or trust and estate law."
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation Annual Brown Award
"The Award honors excellence in legal writing in American law schools."
Deadline: May 31, 2022
National Law Review 2021-2022 Law Student Writing Competition
"straightforward and practical, containing useful information of interest to legal and business professionals" Suggested Topics:
- Election Law and Access to Voting
- President Trump and current administration
- Tax Issues
- Immigration enforcement and policy
- Federal Court issues: process of adding additional justices to the US Supreme Court/Federal Circuit
- Employment Issues - Ban the Box Laws, Minimum Wage, Transgender Accommodations, Age/Sex Discrimination
Deadline: 5:00 pm Central Standard Time by the last day of the month.
ABA SEER Law Student Writing Competitions
"SEER is holding five competitions during the 2022-2023 ABA year on a range of topics."
Topics:
Air, Climate, and Ecosystems
Brownfields, Pesticides, Superfund, and Toxic Torts
Energy Law
Native American Resources
Water Law
Deadline: May 31, 2023
ABA SEER Law Student Writing Competition: Air, Climate, and Ecosystems
"The goal of the Competition is to encourage law students to become involved in the Section. It is also intended to attract students to air quality, climate change, ecosystems, endangered species, sustainable development, and wildlife legal practice areas, and to encourage scholarship in these areas. Each entrant must follow the rules of the Competition detailed herein."
Deadline: May 31, 2023
ABA SEER Law Student Writing Competition: Brownfields, Pesticides, Superfund, and Toxic Torts
"The goal of the Competition is to encourage law students to become involved in the Section. It is also intended to attract students to the practice of superfund and natural resource damages litigation, environmental transactions and brownfields, pesticides/chemical regulation, and toxic torts, raise awareness of and foster dialogue regarding issues in these practice areas, and encourage scholarship in these fields. Each entrant must follow the rules of the Competition detailed herein. "
Deadline: May 31, 2023
ABA SEER Law Student Writing Competition: Energy Law
"The goal of the Competition is to encourage law students to become involved in the Section. It is also intended to attract students to the energy law practice field, and to encourage scholarship in this field. Each entrant must follow the rules of the competition detailed herein."
Deadline: May 31, 2023
ABA SEER Law Student Writing Competition: Native American Resources
"The goal of the Competition is to encourage law students to become involved in the Section. It is also intended to raise awareness of and foster dialogue regarding environmental, energy, or resources legal issues related to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, other Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples generally, and/or the field of Indian and tribal law and encourage scholarship in these fields. Each entrant must follow the rules of the Competition detailed herein."
Deadline: May 31, 2023
ABA SEER Law Student Writing Competition: Water Law
"The goal of the Competition is to encourage law students to become involved in the Section. It is also intended to raise awareness of and foster dialogue regarding legal issues related to water law and encourage scholarship in these fields. Each entrant must follow the rules of the Competition detailed herein."
Deadline: May 31, 2023