Student Legal Writing Competitions - May 2024
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.
May
California Supreme Court Historical Society Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition
"to promote research and writing on the California Supreme Court and the state’s legal history."
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)."
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."
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."
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."
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.
Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition
"Essay may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives."
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."
Jan Jancin Competition
"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."
ABA SEER Law Student Writing Competitions
Topics: Air, Climate, and Ecosystems ; Brownfields, Pesticides, Superfund, and Toxic Torts ; Energy Law ; Native American Resources ; Water Law (see below)
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."
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. "
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."
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."
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."
Georgetown Law Technology Review Student Writing Competition
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."
The Marshall Manne Schulman Competition for Student Papers in Criminal Law and/or Criminal Procedure
"The Criminal Law Section of the California Lawyers Association is pleased to announce the Marshall M. Schulman Annual Competition for Student Papers in Criminal Law and/or Criminal Procedure. This is a nationwide competition; while the focus is on California law, past winners have included students attending schools across the country."