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Scholarships and Awards >>Top

Arthur C. Helton Fellowship Program - Human Rights

Legal Assistance for Military Personnel - Student Award

Center for Professional Responsibility - E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award

Business Law - Council on Legal Education Opportunities (CLEO) Scholarship

Scholarship to attend the ABA Forum on Communications Law Annual Conference

Defense Research Institute Annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship

Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund


Writing Competitions >>Top

Business Law >>Top

ABA-BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law

ASECA Securities Law Writing Competition

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition

American Intellectual Property Law Association Watson Award Competition

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition

Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition (customs and international trade law)

Attorney-CPA Foundation Essay Contest

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance Writing Contest

Entertainment and Sports Industry Forum Committee and the Recording Academy Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI), Annual GRAMMY® Foundation ELI Writing Contest

The Federal Circuit Bar Association's George Hutchinson Writing Competition

International Association of Defense Counsel Legal Writing Contest

International Technology Law Association Writing Competition

International Trademark Association Ladas Memorial Award

Labor Lawyer Student Writing Contest

Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law

Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest (Business)

University of Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

The Tannenwald Writing Competition (Tax)

Trandafir International Business Writing Competition


Environmental Law >>Top

Endangered Environmental Laws Student Writing Competition

Environment, Energy & Resources Writing Competition
 
The Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest

Individual Rights and Responsibilities - Environmental Justice Essay Competition


Health Law >>Top

The American College of Legal Medicine Student Writing Competition

H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competitions

Elaine Osborne Jacobson Award For Women Working in Health Care Law

Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Competition

Health Care and Life Sciences Law Writing Competition
 
Health Law Writing Competition

National Center for Nonsmokers' Rights


International and Comparative Law >>Top

Albert S. Pergam International Law Writing Competition Award

James Baker Hughes Prize (International/Foreign Writing)

Willamette Journal of International Law & Dispute Resolution

American Immigration Law Foundation's Edward L. Dubroff Memorial Writing Contest

The Washington Foreign Law Society - Ibrahim Shihata Prize for Outstanding Student Writing in Islamic Law

The Washington Foreign Law Society - Justice Robert H. Jackson Award for Outstanding Student Writing in International Law


Military Law >>Top

Legal Assistance to Military Personnel - Essay Contest

Armed Forces Law Standing Committee Writing Award


Native American Law >>Top

American Indian Law Review Writing Competition

National Native American Law Students Association


Other Writing Competitions >>Top

ABA Journal -- Ross Essay Contest

Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Contest

American College of Trial Lawyers Essay Contest on Judicial Independence

American Judges Association Law Student Essay Competition

Berkeley Technology Law Journal Writing Competition

The Berkeley Women's Law Journal Writing Award

Boston Patent Law Association Writing Competition

Colloquium on the Law of Transbeman Persons

Commission on Domestic Violence Writing Competition

Edward L. Dubroff Memorial Legal Writing Contest

Food and Drug Law Institute's H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competitions for Law Students

Family Law - Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest

Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law Writing Competition

Hofstra Family Law Writing Competition

Holocaust Remembrance Essay Award

Jaes Boskey ADR Writing Competition (Dispute Resolution)

Joyce Ann Harpole Memorial Scholarship
 
Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation's Student Writing Competition

Lawyers' Professional Liability Standing Committee - Levit Essay Contest on Lawyers' Professional Liability

Moore Federal Practice Award

The Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Student Journal Writing Competition

National Association of Counsel for Children Essay Competition On the Legal Interests of Children

National Association of Women Lawyers Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition

The National Lesbian & Gay Law Association Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
 
National Conference of Bar Examiners, Joe E. Covington Prize For Scholarship In Bar Admissions Topics

NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Writing Contests

Pacific Legal Foundation Judicial Awareness Student Writing Competition

Public Contract Law - Writing Competition

Real Property, Probate and Trust Law - Student Writing Contest

R. Marlin Smith Student Writing Competition (Planning & Law Division of the American Planning Association)

Scribes - The American Society of Legal Writers Winning Briefs Writing Competition

Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition

Southern New England Roundtable Symposium Law Journal

Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Writing Competition

The Warren E. Burger Prize (ethics and professionalism)

Willamette Journal of Int'l Law & Dispute Resolution

William W. Greenhalgh Writing Competition (Criminal Justice)
 
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - William J. Pierce Writing Contest

Federal Circuit Bar Association - the George Hutchinson Writing Competition

International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) Legal Writing Contest

LexisNexis James William Moore Federal Practice Award

Nathan Burkan Competition

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel - Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition

Notre Dame Law School Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition


HLS Writing Prizes 2007-08 >>Top
 

Addison Brown Prize:  Private International Law or Maritime Law

Amount: $9,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Jack Goldsmith  
 
Victor Brudney Prize: Corporate Governance
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professors Lucien Bebchuk, Reinier Kraakman and Mark Roe  
 
The Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize: Negotian, Dispute Systems Design, Mediation, Dispute Resolution, or ADR
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 2, 2008  
Instructions: Submit paper via email to Professor Bordone and Jessica Glynn  
Reviewed by : Prize Committee chaired by Professor Robert Bordone  
 
Yong K. KIm '95 Memorial Prize: Law or Legal History of the Nations and Peoples of East Asia, or Issues of Law Pertaining to U.S.-East Asia Relations
Amount: $1,500  
Deadline: May 2, 2008  
Instructions: Submit paper to East Asian Legal Studies Office, Pound 426  
Reviewed by : Professor William Alford  
 
Laylin Prize: Public International Law
Amount: $4,000  
Deadline: May 16, 2008  
Instructions: Papers must be nominated by faculty supervisors. Submit paper to the Graduate Program, LILC 208  
Reviewed by : The Graduate Program  
 
Mancini Prize: European Law and European Legal Thought
Amount: $2,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor David Kennedy  
 
Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Bankruptcy
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Elizabeth Warren  
 
Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Constitutional Law: First Amemdment
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Mark Tushnet  
 
Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Constitutional Law: Fourteenth Amendment
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Martha Field  
 
Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Environmental Law
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Jody Freeman  
 
Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Legal History
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Bruce Mann  
 
Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Intellectual Property
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Terry Fisher  
 
Irving Oberman Memorial Prize: Law and Social Change
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit one hard copy to the Dean's Office and email one copy to Janet Moran, both with cover sheets. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name  
Reviewed by : Professors Lani Guinier, Martha Minow and Lucie White  
 
John M. Olin Prizes: Law and Economics
Amount: $1,000  
Deadline: May 15, 2008  
Instructions: Students wishing to apply should first obtain a statement evaluating their paper from a professor under whom it is written. Submit paper and statement to Karl Coleman in Pound 500.  
Reviewed by : Professor Steven Shavell  
 
Program on International Financial Systems Prize
Amount: $2,500  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Hal Scott  
 
Sidney I. Roberts Prize in the Field of Taxation
Amount: $5,000  
Deadline: May 1, 2008  
Instructions: Submit two hard copies with cover sheets to the Dean's Office. Cover sheets should include student's name, paper title, and prize name.  
Reviewed by : Professor Alvin Warren  
 
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