Law School Scholarship Databank – Writing Competitions

The primary purposes of this writing competition are to encourage legal scholarship in areas of concern or interest in the employee benefits field and to foster interest in promising students in the practice of employee benefits law. 

The competition is intended to reach out to and reward law students interested in protecting the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Articles must be on a topic related to public law - a field that covers areas such as administrative law, constitutional law, municipal law, open meetings/open records law, political/election law, education law, state and federal legislation, public employment and labor law, government contracts, government tort liability and regulations, land use/environmental issues, public law ethics, public finance, and water law.

Since 2005, the College has sponsored a writing competition for law students, to encourage them to learn about employee benefits.

Entries should explore ways in which emerging technologies and services interact with or challenge existing civil rights and consumer protection laws.

This annual competition is designed to challenge law students to analyze the environmental issues confronting us today.

This Writing Competition is intended 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.

The Intellectual Property Law Student Writing Competition (the “Competition”) seeks to promote academic debate and the dissemination of ideas and scholarly writing in the field of intellectual property.

The purpose of the competition is to create greater interest in the field of dispute resolution among law students of the nation, particularly those who are members of the Law Student Division of the American Bar.

The purpose of the competition is to promote greater interest in and understanding of the field of disability law and to encourage excellent legal writing skills in law students.

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.

Submit a creative thoughtful, and well-written response exploring what might happen if personal injury attorneys didn't exist and discuss the potential impact on individuals, businesses, and society as a whole.

The goal of the Competition is 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.

The section 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.

This Writing Competition was created to encourage and reward scholarly works in the area of trusts and estates.