Notre Dame Law School sponsors an annual writing competition on the topic of Legal Ethics. All students with an interest in Legal Ethics are invited and encouraged to participate. The competition is open to all law students at U.S. and Canadian law schools. Entries should concern any issue within the general category of legal ethics. Entries […]
Application deadline: Friday, March 23, 2012. Law students, trainee solicitors, pupil barristers and junior lawyers (current, prospective or inbetween stages) are invited to enter the Law Society’s annual Graham Turnbull essay competition. This year’s essay title is: ‘In the light of the growing prison population should we look for alternatives to imprisonment?’ The deadline for entries […]
Deadline: June 1, 2012. Description: The University of Connecticut School of Law has established a Student Legal Writing Competition to encourage and reward original student writing on legal issues affecting persons struggling with homelessness, mental illness, addiction, or substance abuse. Topic: Entrants should submit a paper on a legal issue affecting persons struggling with homelessness, […]
Deadline: June 1, 2012 The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) announces the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Mary Moers Wenig 2012 Student Writing Competition. This competition was created by ACTEC’s Legal Education Committee, which consists of law school professors who teach in the area of trusts and estates and practitioners […]
SUBJECT: Any topic in the field of employee benefits law. OPEN TO: Any J.D. and graduate (LL.M. or S.J.D) law students enrolled at any time between August 15, 2011 and August 15, 2012. SUBMIT BY: June 1, 2012. PRIZES: Clarin M. Schwartz Memorial Award$1,500 /Sidney M. Perlstadt Memorial Award $1,500 Each winner will be honored […]
You must be an ABA Law Student Division member to be considered for the opportunities listed below, unless otherwise indicated. Business Law – Mendes Hershman Writing Contest Entry deadline: January 20, 2012 Award: $2,500 cash, and travel expenses to attend the Section’s Spring Meeting. International Law – Rona R. Mears Student Writing Competition & Scholarship […]
Deadline for 2012 Entries. Entries must be received on or before Friday, May 18, 2012. All J.D. candidates currently enrolled in accredited law schools are eligible to participate in the International Association of Defense Counsel (“IADC”) Legal Writing Contest. Entrants must write on subjects in the fields of tort law, insurance law, civil procedure, evidence […]
Competition entries are due by January 31, 2012! Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., a national firm engaged in the practice of health care and life sciences law, is pleased to announce its Fourteenth Annual Health Law Writing Competition. The competition is designed to encourage the preparation of scholarly papers on current topics of interest relating […]
DEADLINE: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, at 12:00 PM (noon) Eastern Standard Time The Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law (WCL) and the American Society of International Law’s Lieber Society (ASIL) are pleased to once again announce the second International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Student Writing Competition. Learn more […]
The Levit Essay Contest For Law Students and Young Lawyers For Innovative Research and Writing on Lawyers’ Professional Liability An Annual Competition Concluding Every April Deadline for Submission: ONLINE entries MUST be submitted by 11:59 PM CST on February 17, 2012. MAILED entries MUST be postmarked by February 17, 2012. Contest Mission: The contest encourages […]