LibGuides: Writing Competitions for Law Students: Administrative Law

Administrative Law

Sponsor: American Bar Association Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Section
Topic: "The entry must discuss any topic relating to 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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Sponsor: American Constitution Society (ACS)
2025 Topic: "Submissions should be focused on American regulatory or administrative law, broadly construed. Appropriate subjects include empirical or comparative analyses of the effectiveness of specific regulatory regimes or deregulation; doctrinal investigations of the development of administrative law rules or principles by courts and administrative agencies and the effects of that development; and normative analyses of how particular regulatory or administrative regimes or deregulation advance or fail to advance values of fairness, participation, and transparency."
Deadline: February 3, 2025.
Who is eligible: Lawyers and law students in U.S. law schools.
Prizes in the 2025 competition: "The author of the winning paper in each category (lawyer and law student) will receive a cash prize of $1,500. The winning papers will receive special recognition on the ACS website, in our weekly Member Bulletin, and potentially through other means agreed upon by the authors and ACS. For example, the Harvard Law and Policy Review (HLPR) will consider publication of appropriate pieces that meet HLPR’s guidelines."
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