LibGuides: Legal Writing Competitions: By Topic

Legal Writing Competitions

Legal writing competitions are a great way to earn recognition, get your work published, and even earn cash! The Legal Research Center has compiled a list of legal writing competitions, which you can browse by topic or by deadline month.

Some competitions require you to compose a new paper, while others call for the submission of a recently published paper, such as a law review article. Need help developing a topic? See our guides on Developing a Topic for Research Papers and Law Review Resources for more information.

This list is updated as new information is received, but note that deadlines and writing topics often change from year to year. Make sure to check each link for the most up-to-date information.

Writing Competitions: By Topic

American Society of Legal Writers Scribes Law-Review Award
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Notes: Since 1987, Scribes has presented an annual award for the best student-written article in a law review or journal. The Scribes Law-Review Award is presented at the Scribes annual CLE, which is usually held in April.
Chapman LLC Scholarship for Law Students
Deadline: June 15, 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Should collegiate athletes be paid? Argue for or against and provide at least 3 reasons for your position.
Eligibility: Law student planning on attending, accepted to attend, or currently attending an accredited law school in the U.S.; U.S. citizen 18 years or older.
Judge John R. Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: Up to $15,000
Eligibility: Any law student currently enrolled in an accredited law school in the United States seeking a J.D. or LL.B degree is eligible to submit a paper for the Award. The article must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a law school faculty member or legal professional other than the author of the paper.
National Law Review Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: Monthly (reviewed September through May)
Notes: The NLR Law Student Writing Competition offers law students the opportunity to submit articles for publication consideration on the NLR Web site.
Philadelphia Bar Association Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pursuit of Justice Legal Writing Competition
Deadline: August 1, 2023
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Candidates may submit a law review quality submission on any topic relating to rights, privileges, and responsibilities under federal law.
Eligibility: Open to full-time and part-time law students who completed their second or third year of study by the end of the 2021-2022 academic year at one of the following six institutions : Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Rutgers Law School, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and Widener University Delaware
Law School. Part-time law students who were in their third or later year of study during the 2021-2022 academic year are also eligible.

ABA Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section K. William Kolbe Writing Competition
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Papers should address a current topic of general interest in a legal area covered by the Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section (communications, cable TV, internet, electricity, gas, oil pipelines, aviation, railroads, and water industries).
ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Award Competition
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Prize: $5,000
Topic: The entry must discuss any topic relating to administrative law.
Eligibility: The Competition is open to law students who are, at the time of entry, (a) enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school, (b) members of the ABA and the Section, (c) at least 21 years old, and (d) U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.
American Constitution Society Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,500
Notes: 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.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all lawyers and law students. Practicing lawyers, policymakers, academics, and law students all are encouraged to participate. To be considered for the law student category the author(s) must be currently enrolled in a J.D. or LLM program at a U.S. law school.

ABA Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Recent developments in admiralty and maritime law
Eligibility: The Competition is open to any U.S. citizen law student or LLM candidate over the age of 21, currently attending an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions.

Sarin McGill Annual Student Essay Contest on Aircraft Finance & Leasing
Registration Deadline: TBA for 2024
Submission Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: Airfare and accommodations to tour McGill University's Institute of Air and Space Law.
Topic: Following the Russian Federation’s re-registration, without the consent of the lessors or the states of registration, of aircraft leased to Russian operators, what are the implications for leasing and financing of aircraft, for the Chicago Convention, for the rule of law generally, and especially for third countries to which any such aircraft may be flown? Are there any precedents and, if so, how may they be compared and contrasted with the current situation? What solutions might there be?
Eligibility Any student of law, enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate or doctoral programme in any law school or legal professional training school worldwide, at the time of submission of the entry, shall be considered eligible.

NYSBA Committee on Animals and the Law: Student Writing Competition
Deadline: July 7, 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Animal law
Eligibility: To be eligible for consideration, the submission must be written by a student currently enrolled (full time or part time) in an ABA-accredited law school. Students expecting to receive their degree in 2022 are eligible for consideration. The submission must be written by one, and only one student, i.e., papers jointly written by more than one student or that have been subjected to line editing by professors or advisors shall not be considered. No paper that has been previously published in any form shall be considered.

ABA Section of Antitrust Law Robert Pitofsky Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Antitrust or consumer protection law
Eligibility: Open to any law school student in good standing, over the age of 21, who is currently attending an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions, and who is a citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States. Entrants must submit an original article, which has already been published or which is scheduled to be published.
NYIPLA Honorable William Conner Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,500
Topic: An entry must be directed to any of the following subject areas related to intellectual property, i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, antitrust, and data security/privacy issues.
Eligibility: All entrants must be law school students currently enrolled in a J.D. or LL.M. program (day or evening) in an accredited law school in the United States.

International Insolvency Institute Prize in International Insolvency Studies
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $3,000
Topic: Topics of international insolvency and restructuring significance and comparative international analysis of domestic insolvency and restructuring issues and developments.
Eligibility: The Prize Competition is open to full and part-time undergraduate and graduate students and to practitioners in practice for nine years or less. Entries must not have been published.

ABA Business Law Section Mendes Hershman Writing Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: "Business Law" is a broad category. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled:
Eligibility: Author of the paper must be a student enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school’s J.D. program, in good standing, at the time of submission.

American Constitution Society Constance Baker Motley National Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $3,000
Topic: ACS welcomes all student papers furthering and promoting a progressive vision of the Constitution, law, and public policy. Entrants are encouraged to view this topic broadly, and we welcome submissions on a variety of substantive areas. Examples of possible topics include: census report, civil legal aid, civil liberties, constitutional convention, consumer rights, criminal justice, disability rights, freedom of speech, immigration, indigent defense, money in politics (including judicial elections), labor law, LGBTQ+ rights, privacy, protection of health, safety, and the environment, racial equality, religion, role of state attorneys general, second amendment and guns, separation of powers and federalism, women’s reproductive rights and reproductive freedom, voting and political process, and whistleblower protection.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all law students who are current, dues-paying ACS National members.
Baxter Family Competition on Federalism
Deadline: TBA for 2025
Prize: $5,000 (CAD)
Topic: Federalism: What makes it work (or not!). This broad theme welcomes reflections about the institutional, political and cultural elements that explain successes and failures of federalism, whether small scale or at the macro level. We particularly welcome analyses which explore the potential and pitfalls of cooperative federalism. Cooperative angles are especially encouraged.
Eligibility: All undergraduate or graduate students in law or political science students, as well as junior scholars, lawyers or practitioners who graduated in these disciplines with five (5) years of working experience or less, from anywhere around the world.
Freedom From Religion Foundation Cornelius Vanderbroek Memorial Essay Competition
Deadline: June 1, 2023
Prize: $3,500
Topic: As the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has become vital to the global effort to end the pandemic, both government and private employers, as well as some schools, around the country have announced vaccine mandates. Historically, very few employees have claimed religious exemptions from required vaccinations. However, people who oppose COVID-19 vaccines for political or other reasons are now abusing religious exemptions in order to flout vaccine mandates. Against this backdrop lawsuits have surged, challenging vaccine requirements on religious grounds and arguing that religious exemptions to such requirements are required by the First Amendment. Craft an argument that religious exemptions from vaccine requirements are not legally required, addressing constitutional questions as well as other legal issues raised by such mandates.
Philadelphia Bar Association Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pursuit of Justice Legal Writing Competition
Deadline: August 1, 2023
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Candidates may submit a law review quality submission on any topic relating to rights, privileges, and responsibilities under federal law.
Eligibility: Open to full-time and part-time law students who completed their second or third year of study by the end of the 2021-2022 academic year at one of the following six institutions : Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Rutgers Law School, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and Widener University Delaware
Law School. Part-time law students who were in their third or later year of study during the 2021-2022 academic year are also eligible.

ABA Forum on Construction Law’s Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Prize: $2,000
Topic: Papers should address a topical issue of interest to the construction industry.
Eligibility: The competition is open to any student age 21 years or older enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school during the academic years 2021 and 2022 of the competition who is a legal resident of the United States.

ABA Antitrust Law Section Harvey Saferstein Consumer Protection Essay Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Consumer protection law
ABA Business Law Section Mendes Hershman Writing Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: "Business Law" is a broad category. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled:
Eligibility:Author of the paper must be a student enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school’s J.D. program, in good standing, at the time of submission
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Agency; Bankruptcy; Business Law; Business Organizations; Commercial Law; Consumer Law
Contracts; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Corporations; Creditors Rights; Employment Law; Financial Institutions; Insurance Law; Oil and Gas Law; Professional Responsibility; Remedies; Secured Transactions; Securities Regulations; Uniform Commercial Code
American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Writing Competition
Deadline: November 1, 2023
Prize: $1,500
Topic: Eligible entries must discuss some aspect of U.S. consumer financial services law. Topics that relate principally to securities regulation, bankruptcy, insurance, or the safety and soundness aspects of banking regulation are not eligible, but works on subjects within these (or other) areas will be considered if they bear directly on U.S. consumer financial services.

ABA Criminal Section Justice Annual William W. Greenhalgh Student Writing Competition
Deadline: July 1, 2023
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Technology-enhanced searches
Eligibility: The contest is open to students who, on the date the entry is submitted, attend and are in good standing at an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions. Membership in the Criminal Justice Section is not a requirement. Entrants must be at least 21 years of age and legal permanent residents or citizens of the United States.
Arizona State Law Journal Criminal Justice Reform National Writing Competition
Deadline: July 1, 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Criminal justice reform
Eligibility: Applicants must be enrolled full-time at an ABA-accredited law school at the time of submission.
Marshall M. Schulman Annual Competition for Student Papers in Criminal Law and/or Criminal Procedure
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,500
Topic: Criminal law and/or to criminal procedure, with a particular focus on contemporary issues of concern in the State of California
Eligibility: This is a nationwide competition; while the focus is on California law, past winners have included students attending schools across the country.
National Crime Victim Law Institute Annual Law Student Victims’ Rights Writing Competition
Deadline: May 20, 2024
Prize: $200
Topic: Victims’ rights (preference given to papers focusing on rights enforcement in the context of criminal justice systems)
Eligibility: Authors/presenters must be enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school at the date of their submission or have graduated from such a school within the last 18 months.

ABA Antitrust Law Section Privacy and Information Security Committee Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Writing Competition
Deadline: February 24, 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Participants are required to submit an original written work on data privacy or cybersecurity law.
Eligibility: Contestants need not be a member of the American Bar Association (“ABA”), the Antitrust Law Section ("Section") or the Privacy and Information Security Committee ("Committee") although membership in all is encouraged.
NYIPLA Honorable William Conner Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,500
Topic: An entry must be directed to any of the following subject areas related to intellectual property, i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, antitrust, and data security/privacy issues.
Eligibility: All entrants must be law school students currently enrolled in a J.D. or LL.M. program (day or evening) in an accredited law school in the United States.

ABA Commission on Disability Rights Adam A. Milani Writing Competition
Deadline: June 9, 2023
Prize: Up to $1,000
Topic: The submission may address any aspect of disability law, theory, or practice the contestant chooses. Other permissible topics include issues arising under any of the following statutes: Civil Rights Act of 1964; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Family and Medical Leave Act; or any state statutes or municipal ordinances prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all students who attend a law school in the United States. Full-time students who are not law students but who write law-related papers as part of a course at an American law school are also eligible.

ABA Section of Dispute Resolution James Boskey Essay Competition
Deadline: June 9, 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Any aspect of dispute resolution practice, theory or research that the contestant chooses.
Eligibility: The competition is open to anyone, age 21 or older, who was a full-time or part-
time J.D. law student, including students in joint J.D. degree programs, at an ABA-accredited law
school during the 2020-21 academic year.
American Journal of Mediation National Dispute Resolution Writing Competition
Deadline: December 15, 2023
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Subject matter focus for entries can embrace the full range of the alternative dispute resolution field– consensus-based dispute resolution (e.g., negotiation, mediation), adjudicative processes (e.g., early neutral evaluation, binding or non-binding arbitration and private judging), or mixed processes (e.g., arb-med, med-arb, high low arbitration, baseball arbitration). Papers can also focus on ADR process design, practice techniques, specific case studies, related legislation, and ethical dilemmas and standards for dispute resolution professionals.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all North American JD and LLM law students enrolled as of December 15, 2021.

Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund Robert T. Matsui Annual Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024; contact board@aefdc.org
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Submissions should address a legal topic of importance to the Asian Pacific American community.
Eligibility: The Competition is open to all law students and anyone who graduated from law school within the last five years (i.e., 2018 or later) in the United States.
Dukeminier Awards Jeffrey S. Haber Prize for Student Scholarship
Deadline: TBA for 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Sexual orientation and gender identity law
National Association of Women Lawyers Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: February 1, 2024
Prize: $500
Topic: Entrants should submit a paper on an issue concerning, in your opinion, the most pressing issue related to advancing equality in the legal field. Topics can include but are not limited to, examining race, gender, sex, feminism, LGBTQIA+, pay equity, equal education, and employment opportunity, and or the Equal Rights Amendment, etc.
Eligibility: Essays will be accepted from students enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school during the 2020-2021 school year. The essays must be the law student author’s own work and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers written by students for coursework or independent study during the summer, fall, or spring semesters are eligible for submission. Notwithstanding the foregoing, students may incorporate professorial feedback as part of a course requirement or supervised writing project.
National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Bar Association Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $500
Topic: Legal issues affecting LGBTQ+ persons.

Education Law Association George Jay Joseph Award
Deadline: August 1, 2022
Topic: The subject matter must address 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.

ABA Business Law Section Mendes Hershman Writing Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: "Business Law" is a broad category. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled:
Eligibility:Author of the paper must be a student enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school’s J.D. program, in good standing, at the time of submission
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Agency; Bankruptcy; Business Law; Business Organizations; Commercial Law; Consumer Law
Contracts; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Corporations; Creditors Rights; Employment Law; Financial Institutions; Insurance Law; Oil and Gas Law; Professional Responsibility; Remedies; Secured Transactions; Securities Regulations; Uniform Commercial Code
ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Energy Law Writing Competition
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Any issue related to energy law
Institute for Energy Law Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Any topic related to energy development. This includes, for example, topics concerning oil and gas law, alternative energy resources, energy regulation, and environmental regulation of the energy industries.

Grammy Entertainment Law Initiative Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $10,000 tuition-based scholarship, tickets to GRAMMY Awards
Topic: Legal issues facing the music industry
Sports Lawyers Association Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Notes: Each entrant must be a current law or LLM student and 18 years of age or older, and a member in good standing of the Sports Lawyers Association.
Video Game Bar Association David S. Rosenbaum Scholarship
Deadline: Contact tristen@vgba.org
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Video games and the law. Potential topics could include: developments in game accessibility; reputation management and user-creations (mods, skins, etc.); game developer unionization and labor rights.

ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Student Writing Contest
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Real property, trust and estate law.*
Eligibility: Open to any law school student in good standing, over the age of 21, who is currently attending an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions, and who is a citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States.
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*“Real property, trust and estate law” is a broad category containing numerous practice disciplines. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled: Property; Estate and Gift Tax; Wills and Decedents’ Estates; Real Estate Development; Environmental Law; Land Use Planning; Federal Taxation; Real Estate Finance; Secured Transactions; Debtors and Creditors; Employee Benefit Plans; Planning, Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Transactions; Taxation and Regulation of Non-Profit Organizations; Business Succession Planning; Life Insurance and Other Insurance Products; Trusts and Trust Law; Wealth Management; Fiduciary Income Taxation; Estate Planning; and Probate and Estate Administration.
ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Writing Competitions
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: See link for details of eight separate writing competitions: Endangered Species, Energy Law, Forest Law, International Environmental and Resources Law, Native American Resources, Public Land and Resources, Superfund, Brownfields, and Resource Recovery, and Water Law
Public Citizen Law Hogan/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Legal Remedies to Combat Climate Change
White River Environmental Law Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Any relevant topic in the fields of environmental law, natural resource law, energy law, environmental justice, land use law, animal law, and agricultural law.
Eligibility: Current J.D. or LLM students at any ABA-accredited law school.

ABA Section of Family Law Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest
Registration Deadline: TBA for 2024
Submission Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,500.00
Topic: The subject may be any aspect of family law.
Eligibility: Contestants must be J.D. students at ABA-approved law schools who are: second or third-year full-time students; second through fourth-year part-time students; or first-year students enrolled in schools where the subject of family law is part of the first-year curriculum; and citizens or legal permanent residents of the U.S.
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The primary focus of each essay should be an issue of law, although some interdisciplinary material may be useful in addressing a legal issue. Family law includes dissolution of marriage and other intimate relationships, relationships of persons of the same sex, parentage, custody, child support, division of property, alimony (maintenance), attorney's fees, adoption, dependency, termination of parental rights, rights pertaining to procreation, and alternative dispute resolution of Family Law issues. Family Law generally does not include Juvenile Justice, Probate, Labor, Immigration Law, and sociology topics unless those topics are related to more traditional Family Law subjects.
Hofstra Law School and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Family Law Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $500
Topic: The subject of entries may be within any area of family law, although topics that focus on international or interdisciplinary subjects of family law are especially encouraged.

American Society for Pharmacy Law Simonsmeier Award
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Topic: Pharmacy law (law related to pharmacists, pharmacies, the provision of pharmaceutical care, the manufacturing and distribution of drugs, and other food, drug, and medical device policy issues)
Eligibility: Papers published in or accepted for publication in any English-language peer-reviewed journal (including law reviews) during the period from January 2020 through December 2021 are eligible.
American University Washington College of Law National Health Law Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,000
Topic: Papers must address and analyze health law and/or food/drug/device law issues. (Note that a paper that analyzes intellectual property or environmental laws/statutes, even if relating to health or the health care industry, will not be eligible.)
Eligibility: Current 2L, 3L, and 4L (evening/part-time) JD and LLM students enrolled in a U.S. law school at the time of paper submission are eligible to participate.
Food and Drug Law Institute H. Thomas Austern Writing Competition
Deadline: June 12, 2023
Prize: $750
Topic: Current legal issues concerning food, drugs, animal drugs, biologics, cosmetics, diagnostics, dietary supplements, medical devices, veterinary devices, cannabis, or tobacco

Federal Circuit Bar Association Hutchinson Writing Contest
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $3,000
Topic: Papers must deal with a topic that lies within the substance, procedure, or scope of the specialized jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

American Society for Pharmacy Law Simonsmeier Award
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Topic: Pharmacy law (law related to pharmacists, pharmacies, the provision of pharmaceutical care, the manufacturing and distribution of drugs, and other food, drug, and medical device policy issues)
Eligibility: Papers published in or accepted for publication in any English-language peer-reviewed journal (including law reviews) during the period from January 2020 through December 2021 are eligible.
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Health Law and Anti-Racism Graduate Student Writing Competition
Deadline: July 1, 2023
Prize: $500
Topic: Note that a wide variety of topics will be viewed as in scope, but papers must focus specifically on health
law in the context of anti-racism. If you have questions about the suitability of your topic, please ask.
American University Washington College of Law National Health Law Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,000
Topic: Papers must address and analyze health law and/or food/drug/device law issues. (Note that a paper that analyzes intellectual property or environmental laws/statutes, even if relating to health or the health care industry, will not be eligible.)
Eligibility: Current 2L, 3L, and 4L (evening/part-time) JD and LLM students enrolled in a U.S. law school at the time of paper submission are eligible to participate.
Epstein Becker Green Health Law Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $4,000
Topic: Papers may address any traditional area of the law as applied to health care (e.g., antitrust, tax, corporate) or areas of law unique to health care (e.g., fraud and abuse, managed care, Medicare/Medicaid, clinical trials, telehealth/telemedicine).
Food and Drug Law Institute H. Thomas Austern Writing Competition
Deadline: June 12, 2023
Prize: $750
Topic: Current legal issues concerning food, drugs, animal drugs, biologics, cosmetics, diagnostics, dietary supplements, medical devices, veterinary devices, cannabis, or tobacco
Freedom From Religion Foundation Cornelius Vanderbroek Memorial Essay Competition
Deadline: June 1, 2023
Prize: $3,500
Topic: As the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has become vital to the global effort to end the pandemic, both government and private employers, as well as some schools, around the country have announced vaccine mandates. Historically, very few employees have claimed religious exemptions from required vaccinations. However, people who oppose COVID-19 vaccines for political or other reasons are now abusing religious exemptions in order to flout vaccine mandates. Against this backdrop lawsuits have surged, challenging vaccine requirements on religious grounds and arguing that religious exemptions to such requirements are required by the First Amendment. Craft an argument that religious exemptions from vaccine requirements are not legally required, addressing constitutional questions as well as other legal issues raised by such mandates.
INS/IYNA Neuroethics Essay Contest
Deadline: July 7, 2023
Prize: $250
Topic: Essay submissions can cover any topic in neuroethics and should address a focused problem at the intersections of the mind and brain sciences, ethics, and law. Example topics include, but are not limited to: neuroenhancement, neurolaw, moral psychology, moral philosophy, brain stimulation, ethics of neurodegenerative illness, neurogenetics, neurotechnology policy and regulation, philosophy of mind, clinical ethics in psychiatry and neurosurgery, neural imaging, big data and neuroscience, brain–computer interaction, military applications of neurotechnology, and free will.
Notes: Those included in the definition of ‘post-secondary student’ or ‘early career trainees’ during the Spring 2022 semester may submit an essay to either the Academic or General Audience categories. Authors may submit two different essays — one to each category. See Neuroethics Essay Contest website for more information on essay categories.
Roy Snell Health Care Regulatory and Compliance Writing Competition
Registration Deadline: TBA for 2024
Submission Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Notes: In keeping with Roy Snell’s keen interest in practical, realistic, and user-centered communication, as well as a commitment to efficiency and clarity in writing, this demanding 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. Students must analyze the facts presented, identify any and all regulatory/compliance concerns, and advise the recipient of the memorandum.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all full and part-time law students in J.D. programs who have completed their 1L year. The competition is also open to any student currently enrolled in a Compliance Certification Board (CCB) accredited program.

International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $100
Topic: Papers may address any topic related to international law and refugees, stateless persons, internally-displaced persons (IDPs), and/or forced migrants.
Eligibility: Student authors must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at an accredited university at the time of submission.

American College of Coverage Counsel Insurance Law Writing Competition
Registration Deadline: TBA for 2024
Submission Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,000
Topic: This year’s writing competition asks students to choose one of two sides in a case involving an insurance company and a Texas based business in preparing a motion for partial summary judgment on a specific set of grounds as presented by each party.

American Association of Patent Judges Hon. Frederick E. McKelvey Memorial Scholarship
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Prize: $500
Topic: For this year’s entry, an entrant must identify ways patents “promote the progress of … useful arts” (Const.; Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 8) and explain how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) can encourage that. In your answer, please define “useful arts.”
Eligibility: Students matriculated at and attending an ABA-accredited law school at least half-time as of February 28, 2022, are eligible to submit an entry for this competition.
American Intellectual Property Law Association Robert C. Watson Award
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Topic: Intellectual property law
Brooks Kushman Law Student Intellectual Property Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Trademark or patent law
Eligibility: Open to any law student in good standing and currently enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school, and who is a citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States.
Federal Circuit Bar Association Hutchinson Writing Contest
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $3,000
Topic: Papers must deal with a topic that lies within the substance, procedure, or scope of the specialized jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
International Trademark Association Ladas Memorial Award
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,250
Topic: Subject of the paper must be trademark law or a matter that directly relates to, or affects, trademarks.
Eligibility: Eligible students must be enrolled as either full- or part-time law or graduate students. Eligible papers may include both original unpublished manuscripts and published articles that are submitted to INTA by the submission deadline.
NYIPLA Honorable William Conner Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,500
Topic: An entry must be directed to any of the following subject areas related to intellectual property, i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, antitrust, and data security/privacy issues.
Eligibility: All entrants must be law school students currently enrolled in a J.D. or LL.M. program (day or evening) in an accredited law school in the United States.
Pennsylvania Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section Writing Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $500
Topic: Patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets or trade dress
Eligibility: Open to all law students enrolled in any law school in the United States who intend to take the Pennsylvania bar exam.

Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Human Rights Essay Award
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: A scholarship to cover tuition for the Program of Advanced Studies in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law for either the Diploma or Certificate of Attendance options
Notes: Essay Award Topic for 2023: Equality and Human Rights: Confronting Racial Discrimination
Eligibility: Applicants for the Award must hold a law degree and have a demonstrated experience or interest in international human rights law.
International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $100
Topic: Papers may address any topic related to international law and refugees, stateless persons, internally-displaced persons (IDPs), and/or forced migrants.
Eligibility: Student authors must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at an accredited university at the time of submission.
Georgetown Institute of International Economic Law Greenwald Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Current issues relevant to international trade law, the jurisprudence of the WTO or regional trade organizations, jurisprudence concerning U.S. trade organizations, an issue relating to the political economy or the efficacy of U.S. or international trade regimes.
Eligibility: JD, LLM, and SJD students
International Fiscal Association International Tax Student Writing Competition
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Any topic relating to U.S. taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under U.S. tax treaties.
Eligibility: All students during the 2021-22 academic year (including independent study and summer 2022 school courses) pursuing a graduate degree (J.D., L.L.M., S.J.D., M.S.T., MTA, Masters of Taxation, or similar program). Any appropriate papers written in fall 2021 or spring and summer 2022.
NYSBA Albert S. Pergam International Law Writing Competition Award
Deadline: November 3, 2023
Prize: $2,000
Topic: Public or private international law
Eligibility: Law Students (including J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. and S.J.D. candidates) are cordially invited to submit to the International Section an article concerning any area of public or private international law or practice. Faculty members of any college or university are ineligible to participate.
Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems Trandafir Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,000
Topic: Any contemporary international business or economic concern. Recent winning submissions have included such topics as recommendations the United States should follow to update its privacy laws to harmonize with international general data protection regulation commitments, why international labor organizations should adopt fair trade as an enforcement mechanism to end labor violations, and why the United States Treasury should wait for Congress to end corporate tax sheltering tactics.
Eligibility: All students currently enrolled in law or graduate degree programs.

ABA Business Law Section Mendes Hershman Writing Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: "Business Law" is a broad category. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled:
Eligibility:Author of the paper must be a student enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school’s J.D. program, in good standing, at the time of submission
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Agency; Bankruptcy; Business Law; Business Organizations; Commercial Law; Consumer Law
Contracts; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Corporations; Creditors Rights; Employment Law; Financial Institutions; Insurance Law; Oil and Gas Law; Professional Responsibility; Remedies; Secured Transactions; Securities Regulations; Uniform Commercial Code
American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Writing Contest
Deadline: June 1, 2023
Prize: $1,800
Topic: Employee benefits legal topics
Eligibility: Any J.D. and graduate (L.L.M. or S.J.D.) law students enrolled at any time between August 15, 2021, and August 15, 2022, who have not at any time engaged in the practice of law.
Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law
Deadline: <TBA for 2024
Prize: $3,000
Topic: Employment and labor law

AALL/LexisNexis Call For Papers Awards (Student Division)
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $650
Topic: A paper may address any subject relevant to law librarianship. It may be scholarly or practical in substance and tone, but the subject should be explored in depth with appropriate reference to sources and documentation of assertions.
Eligibility: Those enrolled in library school, information management school or the equivalent, or in law school, during the Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 semester. Entrants in the Student Division need not be members of AALL.
AALL Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $500
Topic: Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives.

American Constitution Society Constance Baker Motley National Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $3,000
Topic: ACS welcomes all student papers furthering and promoting a progressive vision of the Constitution, law, and public policy. Entrants are encouraged to view this topic broadly, and we welcome submissions on a variety of substantive areas. Examples of possible topics include: census report, civil legal aid, civil liberties, constitutional convention, consumer rights, criminal justice, disability rights, freedom of speech, immigration, indigent defense, money in politics (including judicial elections), labor law, LGBTQ+ rights, privacy, protection of health, safety, and the environment, racial equality, religion, role of state attorneys general, second amendment and guns, separation of powers and federalism, women’s reproductive rights and reproductive freedom, voting and political process, and whistleblower protection.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all law students who are current, dues-paying ACS National members.
Freedom From Religion Foundation Cornelius Vanderbroek Memorial Essay Competition
Deadline: June 1, 2023
Prize: $3,500
Topic: As the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has become vital to the global effort to end the pandemic, both government and private employers, as well as some schools, around the country have announced vaccine mandates. Historically, very few employees have claimed religious exemptions from required vaccinations. However, people who oppose COVID-19 vaccines for political or other reasons are now abusing religious exemptions in order to flout vaccine mandates. Against this backdrop lawsuits have surged, challenging vaccine requirements on religious grounds and arguing that religious exemptions to such requirements are required by the First Amendment. Craft an argument that religious exemptions from vaccine requirements are not legally required, addressing constitutional questions as well as other legal issues raised by such mandates.
Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $3,000
Topic: Papers should be focused, broadly, on topics related to church, state & society. For guidance on selecting a topic, students may wish to view our Program website and mission statement: https://churchstate.nd.edu/

ABA Commission on Disability Rights Adam A. Milani Writing Competition
Deadline: June 9, 2023
Prize: Up to $1,000
Topic: The submission may address any aspect of disability law, theory, or practice the contestant chooses. Other permissible topics include issues arising under any of the following statutes: Civil Rights Act of 1964; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Family and Medical Leave Act; or any state statutes or municipal ordinances prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all students who attend a law school in the United States. Full-time students who are not law students but who write law-related papers as part of a course at an American law school are also eligible.
Dukeminier Awards Jeffrey S. Haber Prize for Student Scholarship
Deadline: TBA for 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Sexual orientation and gender identity law
National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Bar Association Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $500
Topic: Legal issues affecting LGBTQ+ persons.

ABA Standing Committee on Armed Forces Law Keithe E. Nelson Distinguished Service Award
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Topic: Military law or the status of lawyers in the Armed Forces
National Institute of Military Justice Rear Admiral John S. Jenkins Writing Award for Law Students
Deadline: July 31, 2023
Prize: $250
Topic: Military law
Eligibility: Papers and/or published articles are eligible for this award if they were written by a candidate for the J.D. in the previous academic year.

ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Writing Competitions
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $1,000
Topic: See link for details of eight separate writing competitions: Endangered Species, Energy Law, Forest Law, International Environmental and Resources Law, Native American Resources, Public Land and Resources, Superfund, Brownfields, and Resource Recovery, and Water Law
American Indian Law Review National Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,500
Topic: Any legal issue specifically concerning American Indians or other indigenous peoples.
Eligibility: The competition is open to students enrolled in J.D. or graduate law programs at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada as of the competition deadline of Monday, Feb. 28, 2022.
Chief Justice John B. Doolin Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Eligibility: Open to any student enrolled in college, at any level.
National Native American Law Students Association Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Topic: All students are encouraged to submit scholarly articles between twenty (20) and fifty (50) pages, either individually or jointly with other students, about Native American legal issues.
Eligibility: Competitors must be active, dues-paying members of National NALSA.

Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Open to 2L and 3L students at any Pennsylvania law school and Rutgers Law. Topic: Under the existing rules of judicial conduct, how might Pennsylvania's courts utilize current communication tools, such as social media, to engage the people of Pennsylvania to instill confidence in the workings of the judicial branch and its decisions?

ABA Business Law Section Mendes Hershman Writing Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: "Business Law" is a broad category. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled:
Eligibility:Author of the paper must be a student enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school’s J.D. program, in good standing, at the time of submission
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Agency; Bankruptcy; Business Law; Business Organizations; Commercial Law; Consumer Law
Contracts; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Corporations; Creditors Rights; Employment Law; Financial Institutions; Insurance Law; Oil and Gas Law; Professional Responsibility; Remedies; Secured Transactions; Securities Regulations; Uniform Commercial Code
ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability Ed Mendrzycki Essay Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: This year's hypothetical involves multiple ethical and professional liability concerns that arise when a partner in a law firm is retained to represent a client in several business and real estate matters regarding a series of land acquisitions, and the law firm is contacted by the Department of Justice to assist in the investigation of potential money laundering allegations against the client.
American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Authors should address one or more aspects of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence within the legal profession.

American Constitution Society Constance Baker Motley National Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $3,000
Topic: ACS welcomes all student papers furthering and promoting a progressive vision of the Constitution, law, and public policy. Entrants are encouraged to view this topic broadly, and we welcome submissions on a variety of substantive areas. Examples of possible topics include: census report, civil legal aid, civil liberties, constitutional convention, consumer rights, criminal justice, disability rights, freedom of speech, immigration, indigent defense, money in politics (including judicial elections), labor law, LGBTQ+ rights, privacy, protection of health, safety, and the environment, racial equality, religion, role of state attorneys general, second amendment and guns, separation of powers and federalism, women’s reproductive rights and reproductive freedom, voting and political process, and whistleblower protection.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all law students who are current, dues-paying ACS National members.
American Constitution Society Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,500
Notes: 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.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all lawyers and law students. Practicing lawyers, policymakers, academics, and law students all are encouraged to participate. To be considered for the law student category the author(s) must be currently enrolled in a J.D. or LLM program at a U.S. law school.
Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts Law Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Open to 2L and 3L students at any Pennsylvania law school and Rutgers Law. Topic: Under the existing rules of judicial conduct, how might Pennsylvania's courts utilize current communication tools, such as social media, to engage the people of Pennsylvania to instill confidence in the workings of the judicial branch and its decisions?
Public Citizen Law Hogan/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Legal Remedies to Combat Climate Change
University of Pennsylvania Law Review Dorothy E. Roberts Public Interest Essay Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000 cash prize; $5,000 grant to support public interest work or the work of a non-profit organization or pro bono clinic
Topic: Submissions must focus on a specific legal issue within the realm of public interest law, including any issue relating to social justice or advancing the general welfare and good of the public. In addition, the author must include a brief grant proposal for $5,000 to support public interest work related to the essay topic. Topics can be local, state, national, or international in breadth or impact.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all current law students (Classes of 2023, 2024, and 2025) from any ABA-accredited American law school as well as recent graduates of such institutions from the classes of 2015 – 2022. Submissions are limited to one per person and must be an original, unpublished academic essay.

ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law Student Legal Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: Entries should address any legal issue regarding affordable housing, fair housing and/or community development law.
Eligibility: Open to all law students who are at the time of entry, (a) enrolled in a law school that is at the time of entry, ABA Accredited, (b) member of the ABA and the Forum, (c) at least 21 years old, and (d) U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents.
ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Student Writing Contest
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Real property, trust and estate law.*
Eligibility: Open to any law school student in good standing, over the age of 21, who is currently attending an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions, and who is a citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States.
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*“Real property, trust and estate law” is a broad category containing numerous practice disciplines. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled: Property; Estate and Gift Tax; Wills and Decedents’ Estates; Real Estate Development; Environmental Law; Land Use Planning; Federal Taxation; Real Estate Finance; Secured Transactions; Debtors and Creditors; Employee Benefit Plans; Planning, Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Transactions; Taxation and Regulation of Non-Profit Organizations; Business Succession Planning; Life Insurance and Other Insurance Products; Trusts and Trust Law; Wealth Management; Fiduciary Income Taxation; Estate Planning; and Probate and Estate Administration.
American Planning Association Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,000
Topic: Planning, planning law, land use law, local government law or environmental law
Eligibility: Open to law students and planning students

ABA Business Law Section Mendes Hershman Writing Contest
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $1,000
Topic: "Business Law" is a broad category. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled:
Eligibility:Author of the paper must be a student enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school’s J.D. program, in good standing, at the time of submission
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Agency; Bankruptcy; Business Law; Business Organizations; Commercial Law; Consumer Law
Contracts; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Corporations; Creditors Rights; Employment Law; Financial Institutions; Insurance Law; Oil and Gas Law; Professional Responsibility; Remedies; Secured Transactions; Securities Regulations; Uniform Commercial Code

ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Student Writing Contest
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Real property, trust and estate law.*
Eligibility: Open to any law school student in good standing, over the age of 21, who is currently attending an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions, and who is a citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States.
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*“Real property, trust and estate law” is a broad category containing numerous practice disciplines. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled: Property; Estate and Gift Tax; Wills and Decedents’ Estates; Real Estate Development; Environmental Law; Land Use Planning; Federal Taxation; Real Estate Finance; Secured Transactions; Debtors and Creditors; Employee Benefit Plans; Planning, Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Transactions; Taxation and Regulation of Non-Profit Organizations; Business Succession Planning; Life Insurance and Other Insurance Products; Trusts and Trust Law; Wealth Management; Fiduciary Income Taxation; Estate Planning; and Probate and Estate Administration.
International Fiscal Association International Tax Student Writing Competition
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Any topic relating to U.S. taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under U.S. tax treaties.
Eligibility: All students during the 2021-22 academic year (including independent study and summer 2022 school courses) pursuing a graduate degree (J.D., L.L.M., S.J.D., M.S.T., MTA, Masters of Taxation, or similar program). Any appropriate papers written in fall 2021 or spring and summer 2022.
Tax Notes Student Writing Competition
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Topic: Submissions should focus on an unsettled question in federal, state, or international tax law or policy.
Eligibility: The competition is open to any student currently enrolled in a law, business, or public policy program. Each student may submit only one paper. Co-authored papers will be accepted.
Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship Writing Competition
Deadline: July 10, 2023
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Submitted papers must focus primarily upon technical or policy-oriented tax issues relating to any type of existing or proposed U.S. federal or state tax or U.S. federal or state taxation system (including topics relating to tax practice ethical and professional responsibility matters). See Competition Rules for more information.
Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems Trandafir Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: $2,000
Topic: Any contemporary international business or economic concern. Recent winning submissions have included such topics as recommendations the United States should follow to update its privacy laws to harmonize with international general data protection regulation commitments, why international labor organizations should adopt fair trade as an enforcement mechanism to end labor violations, and why the United States Treasury should wait for Congress to end corporate tax sheltering tactics.
Eligibility: All students currently enrolled in law or graduate degree programs.

ABA Antitrust Law Section Privacy and Information Security Committee Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Writing Competition
Deadline: February 24, 2024
Prize: $5,000
Topic: Participants are required to submit an original written work on data privacy or cybersecurity law.
Eligibility: Contestants need not be a member of the American Bar Association (“ABA”), the Antitrust Law Section ("Section") or the Privacy and Information Security Committee ("Committee") although membership in all is encouraged.
Georgetown Law Technology Student Writing Competition
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $4,000
Topic: This year’s writing competition invites submissions on Personal Information, Power, and the Intersection of Technology and Society. Submitted papers should in some way address data-driven or data-intensive technologies. See link for further details and examples of potential topics.
Eligibility: Papers will be accepted from students enrolled at any ABA-accredited law school in the United States during the 2021-2022 academic year. The paper must be the author’s own work, although students may incorporate feedback received as part of an academic course or supervised writing project. The paper must not have been published or committed for publication in another journal.
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT) Student Note Competition
Deadline: June 9, 2023
Prize: $1700
Topic: Topics may include, but are not limited to, cybercrime, biotechnology, space law, entertainment and news media, comparative legal approaches to intellectual property, the law of the Internet, and technology in the public interest.
Video Game Bar Association David S. Rosenbaum Scholarship
Deadline: Contact tristen@vgba.org
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Video games and the law. Potential topics could include: developments in game accessibility; reputation management and user-creations (mods, skins, etc.); game developer unionization and labor rights.
vLex International Law and Technology Writing Competition
Deadline: TBA for 2024
Prize: £1,500
Topic: Can choose one of three topics: law, technology and sports; law, technology and climate; or law, technology and crypto. See competition page for more information.
Eligibility: All current students and recent graduates can enter.

ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Student Writing Contest
Deadline: May 31, 2023
Prize: $2,500
Topic: Real property, trust and estate law.*
Eligibility: Open to any law school student in good standing, over the age of 21, who is currently attending an ABA-accredited law school within the United States and its possessions, and who is a citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States.
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*“Real property, trust and estate law” is a broad category containing numerous practice disciplines. Without attempting to define the area precisely, the subject is intended to include matters within law school curricula in courses entitled: Property; Estate and Gift Tax; Wills and Decedents’ Estates; Real Estate Development; Environmental Law; Land Use Planning; Federal Taxation; Real Estate Finance; Secured Transactions; Debtors and Creditors; Employee Benefit Plans; Planning, Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Transactions; Taxation and Regulation of Non-Profit Organizations; Business Succession Planning; Life Insurance and Other Insurance Products; Trusts and Trust Law; Wealth Management; Fiduciary Income Taxation; Estate Planning; and Probate and Estate Administration.
American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Topic: The paper must relate to the area of trusts and estates, broadly defined. Entrants should write on issues of general interest, rather than state specific issues.
Eligibility: Any law student in good standing (full-time or part-time) who is currently enrolled at the time of submission or was a student within the past 90-day period prior to submission as a J.D. or LL.M. candidate in an ABA-accredited law school within the United States or its possessions.
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