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Writing Competitions for Law Students

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
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  • 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
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