National Legal Writing Competition Opportunities
Scribes 2010 Brief-Writing Competition
Deadline: April 16, 2010
Notre Dame Law School Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition
Topic: Entries should concern any issue within the general category of legal ethics. Entries must be original, unpublished work, not exceeding 50 pages, including notes. Coauthored essays may be submitted.
Deadline: Friday, April 30, 2010
Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee Law Student Writing Competition
Topic: Recent Developments in Admiralty and Maritime Law
Deadline: May 22, 2010
27th Annual Smith-Babock-Williams Student Writing Competition
Topic: Open to all law students and planning students, writing on a question of significance in planning, planning law, land use law, local government law or environmental law.
Deadline: June 7, 2010
The 2010 Warren E. Burger Prize
Topic: Please submit an orginal, unpublished essay of 10,000-25,000 words on a topic of your choice addressing the issues of legal excellence, civility, ethics, and professionalism.
Deadline: June 15, 2010
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Mary Moers Wenig 2010 Student Writing Competition
Topic: A paper submitted that complies with the rules will be considered if it meets the following topical criteria: Student written scholarly works that address one or more legal issues n the area of trusts and estates and related taxation.
Deadline: June 15, 2010
2010 Tannenwald Writing Competition
Topic: Papers on any federal or state tax-related topic may be submitted
Deadline: July 1, 2010
George Jay Joseph Education Law Writing Award 2010
Topic: 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 in elementary and secondary public education.
Deadline: July 15, 2010
6th Annual Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons
Topics:
Option A: Analysis of the legal rights and obligations of futuristic persons, defined as a being who claims to have the rights and obligations associated with humans, but is beyond currently accepted notions of legal personhood. (Examples would include a computer claiming to be conscious; a person successfully revived from post-mortem cryonic biostasis; or a person's downloaded cyberconsciousness in a bionano body).
Option B: Appellate brief in support or in opposition to the granting of U.S. Citizenship to a futuristic person, as defined above.
Deadline: September 10, 2010
The Global Gavel Writing Opportunity for its quarterly e-newsletter
Topic: Law review-style articles on topics of international law.
Deadline: Open-ended
