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Administrative Law
- Description: The ABA Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Section sponsors this competition to encourage law students to become involved in the Section, attract students to the administrative law practice fields, and to encourage scholarship in these fields.
- Deadline: Applications generally due in June.
- Who is eligible: Current law students at ABA-accredited schools who are at least 21 years old, Member of the ABA and Section on Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, US citizen or legal permanent resident.
- Prize: $5,000 cash prize and complimentary registration for the Annual Virtual Live Administrative Law Conference.
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- Description: The American Constitution Society sponsors this competition in honor of Judge Richard D. Cudahy's distinguished contributions to the fields of regulatory and administrative law combined a keen grasp of legal doctrine, deep insight into the institutional forces that determine how doctrine is implemented, and an appreciation of the public impact of doctrinal and institutional choices, including the consequences for fundamental values such as fairness, participation, and transparency. This competition seeks to encourage and reward these qualities in the scholarship of others.
- Deadline: Applications typically close in February.
- Who is eligible: Lawyers and law students.
- Prize: $1,500
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Admiralty & Maritime Law
- Description: The ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice section sponsors the Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee offers an annual writing competition for law students interested in the field.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in April.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$1,000 and $500 reimbursement to attend the TIPS Fall Meeting or Admiralty Disruption Conference; 2nd-$500 and up to $500 reimbursement to attend the TIPS Fall Meeting or Admiralty Disruption Conference.
- To learn more, click here.
Animal Law
- Description: The Committee on Animals and the Law of the New York State Bar Association Food and Drug Law Institute sponsors this writing competition to foster legal scholarship among law students in the area of animals and the law.
- Deadline: Applications typically close in July.
- Who is eligible: Law students in JD, LLM, PhD, and SJD programs
- Prize: 1st Prize: $1,000, 2nd Prize: $500
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Armed Forces & Military Law
- Description: The Law Student Writing Contest of the Standing Committee on Armed Forces Law (SCAFL) is a competitive writing contest with the goal of recognizing law students who have exceptional written work that focuses on the military’s application of criminal law—also known as military justice.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in November.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $750 travel reimbursement to attend the ABA Midyear Meeting.
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- Description: The Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School, in partnership with the Air Force JAG School Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce its annual writing competition for students, practitioners, academics and policy-makers to provide unique perspective and insights on matters of national security law.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in May.
- Who is eligible: Law Students, Lawyers, Professors, Policymakers
- Prize: 1st-$1,500; 2nd-$1,000; 3rd-$500
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- Description: Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, an interest group of the American Society of International Law, has annually recognized a paper that significantly enhances the understanding and implementation of the law of war (also known as international humanitarian law, (IHL).
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in January.
- Who is eligible: Active member of the regular or reserve armed forces, a civilian employee of an armed force/ Ministry of Defense (or Department of Defense for the United States), or military service veterans, regardless of nationality.
- Prize: 1-year membership in the American Society of International Law.
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Aviation & Space Law
- Description: The ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice (TIPS) Aviation and Space Law Committee offers an annual writing competition to students interested in the field.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in September.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $500 and up to $1,500 reimbursement for hotel and transportation to attend and speak at the ABA TIPS Aviation and Space Law Annual CLE Seminar.
- To learn more, click here.
Business Law
- Description: The PIABA Foundation, formed by attorneys to provide consumer education to prevent investment abuse and fraud, sponsors an annual writing competition to promote greater interest in and understanding of the fields of securities arbitration and securities law and to encourage excellent legal writing skills in law students.
- Deadline: September 15, 2023.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st--$1,500; 2nd-$1,000; 3rd-$750
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- Description: The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers seeks to recognize written contributions to the field of U.S. consumer financial services law.
- Deadline: November 1, 2023.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $1,500 for student winner
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- Description: The NYSBA Business Law Section sponsors an annual Student Writing Competition, open to all students who are candidates for the JD or LLM degree at an accredited law school during the year in which the article is submitted.
- Deadline: Submissions are generally due in August.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st--$2,000; 2nd-$1,500; 3rd-$1,000
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Civil Procedure
- Description: Sponsored by the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the competition deals with topics that lie within the substance, procedure, or scope of the specialized jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in July.
- Who is eligible: Law Students who have completed their 1L year
- Prize: $3,000
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Civil Rights & Social Justice
- Description: The Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Prize on Democracy, Civil Liberties, and the Rule of Law was established in spring 2007 by alumnus Roy C. Palmer '62 and his wife, Susan M. Palmer, to honor a work of scholarship that explores threats to, or supports of, the liberal democratic constitutional order.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in July.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $10,000
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- Description: The University of Pennsylvania Law Review is pleased to announce its annual Public Interest Essay Competition, a national writing competition for student-authored articles on the topic of social justice and public interest law.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in February.
- Who is eligible: Law Students and Recent Graduates
- Prize: $5,000 to support public interest work related to the essay topic and $1,000 cash
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Constitutional Law
- Description: The Freedom from Religion Foundation sponsors this competition which is intended to reach out to and reward law students interested in protecting the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
- Deadline: Applications typically close by June 1.
- Who is eligible: Graduate students through age 30, must be at a North American College or University.
- Prize: 1st Prize: $3,500, 2nd Prize: $3,000, 3rd Prize: $2,500, 4th Prize: $2,000, 5th Prize: $1,500, 6th Prize: $1,000, 7th Prize: $750, 8th Prize: $500, 9th Prize: $400, 10th Prize: $300, Optional Honorable Mention(s): $200.
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The American Constitution Society (ACS) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School ACS Chapter host an annual national student writing competition in honor of Constance Baker Motley’s legacy. ACS welcomes all student papers furthering and promoting a progressive vision of the Constitution, law, and public policy. Entrants are encouraged to view this topic broadly, and we welcome submissions on a variety of substantive areas.
- Deadline: Applications typically close in February.
- Who is eligible: Law Students who are dues-paying members of the ACS.
- Prize: 1st Prize: $3,000; 2 Runners-Up-$1,000 each
- Click here to learn more.
Criminal Law
- Description: This Competition is sponsored by Criminal Justice (“Section”) of the American Bar Association (“ABA”), (the “Sponsor”). 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 Criminal Justice practice field, and to encourage scholarship in this field. Each entrant must follow the rules of the competition detailed herein.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in July.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $2,500 cash prize, $800 in travel expenses to a CJS event.
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- Description: This Competition is sponsored by The Arizona State Law Journal and the Arizona State University Academy for Justice to to promote legal scholarship centering on criminal justice reform.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in the spring.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: Unknown at this time/
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- Description: The Criminal Law Section of the California Lawyers Association sponsors this competition to promote scholarship in criminal law and/or to criminal procedure, with a particular focus on contemporary issues of concern in the State of California.
- Deadline: Applications typically close by April.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$1,000, three Honorable Mentions-$500 each; each winning entry will be published in the Criminal Law Journal, the quarterly publication of the Criminal Law Section of the California State Bar.
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Dispute Resolution
- Description: The purpose of the competition is to create greater interest in the field of dispute resolution among law students.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: One prize of $1,000.
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- Description: The purpose of this competition is to heighten interest in, and competence related to, student writing on the subject of Alternate Dispute Resolution. Sponsored by the American College of Civil Trial Mediators (AACTM).
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in December
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$5,000; 2nd-$2,000
- Click here to learn more.
Education Law
- Description: The Education Law Association sponsors this award to generate increased interest in, and recognition of, education law among not only graduate students in schools of education but also students in law schools. It recognizes an outstanding student manuscript addressing one or more legal issues within any of the various contexts of education, including public and private K-12 schools and institutions of higher education, especially current and emerging issues.
- Deadline: Applications are generally due by August.
- Who is eligible: Law Students, Graduate Students in Education
- Prize: Publication and opportunity to present topic at the ELA's annual conference.
- Click here to learn more.
Disability Rights
- Description: Sponsors Mercer University School of Law and the ABA Commission on Disability Rights wish to promote greater interest in and understanding of the field of disability law and to encourage excellent legal writing skills in law student through this competition.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students in US law schools
- Prize: $300-$1,000 depending on the number of awards given
- To learn more, click here.
Entertainment & Sports Law
- Description: The goal of the National Sports Law Student Writing Competition is to encourage law student scholarship on current topics in sports law. Any law student in good standing who is currently attending an accredited law school within the United States and its territories may enter the competition.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: Invitation to National Sports Law Institute's Annual Conference, see sponsor for additional details.
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The ELI Writing Contest challenges law students to identify and research a pressing legal issue facing the music industry today and outline a proposed solution in a 3,000-word essay. A nationwide panel of music law experts judge the papers in a blind process to select one winner and two runners-up.
- Deadline: Information released in fall for next year's contest
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: Winner--$10,000 cash, 2 tickets to the Grammy Awards, round-trip airfare and accommodations for 2 to Los Angeles, mentorship session with ELI attorney, 2 tickets to ELI Grammy Week Event, 2 tickets to MusiCares Person of the Year; Runners-Up (2)--$2,500 tuition scholarship and mentorship session with ELI attorney
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: Applicants will submit an original paper on a legal issue in the video game industry.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in December.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $2,500 stipend and free admission + a stipend to attend the annual VGBA Bay Area Summit.
- Click here to learn more.
Environment, Energy, & Resources
- Description: The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) sponsors up to eight law student writing competitions each year. Topics vary and have included endangered species, energy law, Native American resources, water law, toxic torts, pesticides, Superfund cases.
- Deadline: Varies by topic.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $500-$1,000 for each topic.
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The Infrastructure & Regulated Industries Section of the ABA seeks entries for its writing competition from all law students who are enrolled in ABA-approved law schools and are members of the ABA Law Student Division.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $2,500 and airfare/accommodations to attend the Section's Fall Council Meeting.
- To learn more, click here.
- Description: Sponsored by the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the Vermont Law School, the competition encourages law students to lend their voices and ideas to the ongoing debates and conversations within the environmental law community.
- Deadline: Applications typically close by March.
- Who is eligible: Law Students, JD or LLM
- Prize: $1,000
- Click here to learn more.
Family Law
- Description: The purpose of the Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest is to create greater interest in the field of family law among all law students, and particularly the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in April.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$1,500, 2nd-$750, 3rd-$500
- To learn more, click here.
- Description: Hofstra Law and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) sponsor the annual Family Law Writing Competition. The subject of entries may be within any area of family law, although topics that focus on international or interdisciplinary subjects of family law are especially encouraged. Articles should concentrate on a current legal issue and must have a strong foundation in legal research. Use of interdisciplinary sources may also be appropriate for many topics.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in February.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$500; 2 Runners-Up-$250
- Click here to learn more.
Food & Drug Law
- Description: The Food and Drug Law Institute sponsors this writing competition to encourage law students interested in the areas of law affecting FDA-regulated industries: food, drugs, medical devices, biologics, dietary supplements, cosmetics, veterinary, cannabis, or tobacco and nicotine products.
- Deadline: Applications typically close in June.
- Who is eligible: Current law students completing their third-year at ABA-accredited law schools
- Prize: 1st Prize: $750, 2nd Prize: $500, 3rd Prize: $250
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The American Society for Pharmacy Law (ASPL) sponsors this competition to recognize outstanding scholarship related to pharmacy law.
- Deadline: Applications are generally due in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students, Faculty, Practitioners
- Prize: Honorarium and expenses to attend that annual meeting of the American Society for Pharmacy.
- Click here to learn more.
Gender, Race, Equity, & Inclusion
- Description: The Dukeminier Awards acknowledge the best law review articles concerning sexual orientation and gender identity each year. Sponsored by the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in December.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $1,000
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- Description: The Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund (AEF) established the Robert T. Matsui Annual Writing Competition to encourage scholarship on legal issues of importance to the Asian Pacific American community.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in December.
- Who is eligible: Law Students and Recent Graduates
- Prize: $5,000
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) sponsors this writing competition to promote access and equity in law and legal education. LSAC provides the topic and there are categories for 1L, 2L, and 3L students. This competition is held every two years. As of April 2023, the last competition was in 2020.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in March.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $5,000 to the winner in each category
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Health Law
- Description: The ABA Health Law Section is now accepting entries for our Annual Health Law Student Writing Competition, a writing competition open to any law student in good standing and currently enrolled in an ABA-accredited law, over the age of 21.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in December.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $500 cash and travel/lodging for two nights, per diem to attend Annual Emerging Issus in Healthcare Law Conference.
- To learn more, click here.
- Description: The competition is sponsored by Epstein Becker Green, P.C. is designed to encourage JD and LLM students in the preparation of scholarly papers on current topics of interest relating to health law.
- Deadline: Submissions typically close each year in April.
- Who is eligible: JD and LLM Students in US law schools
- Prize: 1st-$7,500; 2nd-$4,000; 3rd-$1,000
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The American University College of Law sponsors this competition to encourage law students to write scholarly papers on current topics of interest relevant to health law and/or food and drug law.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in May.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$1,500; 2nd-$1,000; 3rd-$500
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- Description: Sponsored by the Mitchell Hamline School of Law's Health Law Institute, the competition requires students to analyze a hypothetical fact pattern (the Competition Problem) involving an organization facing multifaceted health care regulatory/compliance matters and draft two separate internal memoranda to two different recipients within the organization.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in March.
- Who is eligible: Law Students who have completed their 1L year
- Prize: 1st-$5,000; 2nd-$3,000; 3rd-$1,500
- Click here to learn more.
Indian Law
- Description: The Sovereignty Symposium's writing competitions invite submissions on any issue concerning Native American law.
- Deadline: Applications typically close in May.
- Who is eligible: Students enrolled in college at any level
- Prize: 1st Prize: $1,000; 2nd-$750; 3rd-$500
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The Sovereignty Symposium's Hager Prize is awarded for the best writing, either student or Symposium faculty, on the ICWA or any legal issue concerning Native American children.
- Deadline: Applications typically close in May.
- Who is eligible: Students enrolled in college at any level, Symposium faculty
- Prize: $1,000
- Click here to learn more.
Intellectual Property
- Description: Sponsored by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, the competition was established to recognize exceptional writing by law students on issues in IP.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in February.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$1,500; 2nd-$1,000.
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: Sponsored by the PA Bar Association, the competition was established to provide an opportunity for second- and third-year law students to express in writing their insight and knowledge in the areas of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets or trade dress.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year, check the PA Bar site for dates.
- Who is eligible: Law Students in 2L or 3L year, enrolled in an American law school, who intend to take the Pennsylvania Bar Exam.
- Prize: Cash prizes
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: Sponsored by the American Association of Patent Judges
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students, Students in policy, management, or related field.
- Prize: 1st-$1,000; 2nd-$500
- Click here to learn more.
International Law
- Description: Sponsored by the NY State Bar Association's International Section, the competition encourages law students to write on areas of public or private international law.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in November.
- Who is eligible: Law Students, JD, LLM, PhD, and SLD
- Prize: $2,000
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: Sponsored by Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems and the University of Iowa College of Law International and Comparative Law Program, the competition encourages law students to write on areas of international business or economic concern.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in March.
- Who is eligible: Law or Graduate Students
- Prize: $2,000
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: Sponsored by vLex, which provides access to the most extensive collection of legal and regulatory information in the world,
- Deadline: See rules for deadlines.
- Who is eligible: Students from around the world
- Prize: £1,500 for first place with £250 for each winner of Best in Category
- Click here to learn more.
Law & Society
- Description: The Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation is pleased to announce the thirtieth annual Brown Award. The Award honors excellence in legal writing in American law schools. Any law student currently enrolled in an accredited law school in the United States seeking a J.D. or LL.B degree is eligible to submit a paper for the Award. Submissions may be on any topic within the law.
- Deadline: Applications typically close in April.
- Who is eligible: JD or LLB student at an American law school.
- Prize:
$15,000 First Place,
$7,500 Second Place,
$5,000 Third Place,
$2,500 Finalist,
$2,500 Finalist, and
$5,000 to the Scholarship Fund selected by the Dean of
the law school in which the First-Place candidate is enrolled.
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To learn more, click here.
Labor & Employment Law
- Description: Sponsored by the New York State Bar Labor and Employment Law Section, the competition aims to recognize excellence among law school students writing in the area of labor and employment law; and to cultivate the relationship between the Section and future labor and employment practitioners.
- Deadline: May not be offered in 2023, check with sponsor.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$3,000; 2nd-$2,000; 3rd-$1,000
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: Since 2005, the College has sponsored a writing competition for law students, to encourage them to learn about employee benefits.
- Deadline: Applications typically close by June 1.
- Who is eligible: Full- or part-time law students seeking a JD or LLM.
- Prize: 2 prizes of $1,800 (Alvin D. Lurie Memorial Prize and Sidney M. Perstadt Memorial Prize)
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The College sponsors a Writing Competition for Law Students, in conjunction with the ABA's Section of Labor & Employment Lawyers. A distinguished panel of attorneys from around the country will review the submitted papers written on current and relevant topics of labor and employment law.
- Deadline: Submissions generally due in June.
- Who is eligible: Current law students at ABA-accredited law schools, cannot have graduated before December.
- Prize: 1st Prize: $3,000, 2nd Prize: $1,000, 3rd Prize: $500
- Click here to learn more.
Professional Responsibility, Ethics, Professional Liability
- Description: Sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers and Professional Responsibility, essay contest for law students and young lawyers encouraging scholarship and innovative research and writing in the area of legal malpractice law, professional liability insurance, and loss prevention.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in February.
- Who is eligible: Law Students, Young Lawyers
- Prize: $5,000 cash, airfare, accommodations, and registration fees to attend the National Legal Malpractice Conference.
- To learn more, click here.
- Description: Notre Dame Law School sponsors an annual writing competition on the topic of legal ethics.
- Deadline: Applications typically by June 1 each year.
- Who is eligible: Law Students at US and Canadian law schools.
- Prize: $2,500
- To learn more, click here.
- Description: The American Inns of Court sponsors this writing competition to promote scholarship in the areas of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in July
- Who is eligible: Judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars, and other authors
- Prize: $5,000
- To learn more, click here.
Public Contracts & Grants
- Description: Through our annual writing competition, the PCL Section introduces itself to the next generation of public contract lawyers. In addition to cash awards, quality papers are considered for publication in the Public Contract Law Journal. Papers should address a topical issue of interest to the public contract and grant law community. The competition is conducted in two divisions — law students and young lawyers/LL.M students. Each division will be judged separately, and separate prizes will be awarded to the winner(s) of each division.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in September.
- Who is eligible: Young Lawyers, Law Students, LLM students
- Prize: Law Student Division, 1st-$2,000, 2nd-$1000, 3rd-$750
- To learn more, click here.
Real Property, Trust & Estate Law
- Description: 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. It is designed to attract students to these law specialties, and to encourage scholarship and interest in these areas.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in May.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize:
- 1st--$2,500, full tuition scholarship to University of Miami School of Law's Heckerling Graduate Program in Estate Planning OR Robert Traurig-Greenberg Traurig Graduate Program in Real Property Development, airfare/accommodations to RPTE Section Meeting, 1-year membership in the RPTE Section.
- 2nd--$1,500, 1-year membership in the RPTE Section
- 3rd--$1,000, 1-year membership in the RPTE Section
- To learn more, click here.
- Description: The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) wished to encourage and reward scholarly works in the area of trusts and estates.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st Prize: $5,000 (plus full tuition scholarship to Heckerling Graduate Program in Estate Planning), 2nd Prize: $3,000, 3rd Prize: $1,000
- To learn more, click here.
Reproductive Rights
- Description: Sponsors If/When/How, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice seeks student scholarship exploring reproductive rights and justice issues in the U.S.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in October.
- Who is eligible: Law Students and Recent Graduates
- Prize: 1st-$750; 2nd-$500; 3rd-$250
- Click here to learn more.
Science & Technology
- Description: Entries should explore ways in which emerging technologies and services interact with or challenge existing civil rights and consumer protection laws.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in May.
- Who is eligible: Law Students enrolled in ABA-accredited law school
- Prize: 1st-$4,000; 2nd-$2,500; 3rd-$1,000.
- Click here to learn more.
State & Local Government Law
- Description: Sponsored by the Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students, Recent Graduates
- Prize: 1st-$3,000' 2nd-$1,000; 3rd-$500
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Taxation
- Description: The annual student writing competition recognizes superior student writing on unsettled questions in tax law or policy.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in June.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: Publication in Tax Notes' weekly magazine, a year's subscription to Tax Notes
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: Sponsored by Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and named for the late Tax Court Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., and designed to perpetuate his dedication to legal scholarship of the highest quality, the Tannenwald Writing Competition is open to all full- or part-time law school students, undergraduate or graduate.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in July.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: 1st-$5,000; 2nd-$2,500; 3rd-$1,500
- Click here to learn more.
- Description: The International Fiscal Association sponsors this writing competition on any topic relating to US taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under US tax treaties.
- Deadline: Applications typically close each year in September.
- Who is eligible: Law Students
- Prize: $5,000
- Click here to learn more.
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