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The Award honors excellence in legal writing in American law schools.

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.

The Society sponsors the competition to promote research and writing on the California Supreme Court and the state's legal history.

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.

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.

This writing competition is designed to promote scholarship in the areas of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence.

 Using personal experiences, values and goals, explain what motivated you to pursue a legal education. Your essay should be 500 words or less.

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.

The Hutchinson Writing Contest Committee annually administers a writing competition in honor of our beloved George Hutchinson, who was the first Chief Clerk of the Federal Circuit.

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.

Reflect on your "why".  For this scholarship, you will reflect on why you committed to law school and what you plan on doing with your Juris Doctorate once you graduate.

The Bar Association recognizes the importance of excellence in legal writing and seeks to award a student enrolled in an ABA-approved Philadelphia-area law school for authoring a top-quality competition submission.

The 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.

Established by the Ohio State Bar Association Corporate Counsel Section to explore relevant and innovative scholarly work from Ohio’s law students in one specific area of corporate governance challenges.

The purposes of the competition are 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.

The organization is sponsoring a writing competition on any topic relating to US taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under US tax treaties.

Law school students are encouraged to submit papers relating to intellectual property law.

Through our writing competition, the PCL Section introduces itself to the next generation of public contract lawyers.

The Sarah Weddington Writing Prize seeks student scholarship exploring reproductive rights and justice issues in the U.S.

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.

The competition seeks to recognize written contributions to the field of U.S. consumer financial services law.