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Writing Contests

January

The Grammy Foundation and MusCares Foundation's Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition

New York University School of Law's Environmental Law Essay Contest

ABA Section of Antitrust Law's Student Writing Competition

ABA Journal Board of Editors Ross Student Writing Contest

American College of Legal Medicine's Student Writing Competition in Bioethics

American College of Legal Medicine's Letourneau Award Student Writing Competition

University of Oklahoma's American Indian Law Review Writing Competition

Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution's Writing Competition

National Native American Law Student Association's American Indian Law Review Writing Competition

Chicago-Kent College of Law's Institute for Law and the Workplace, Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition

Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., Health Law Writing Competition

National Center for Nonsmokers' Rights and Law Professor John Banzhaf's Non-Smokers' Rights Legal Research and Writing Contest

National Center for National Native American Law Students Association's Annual  NNALSA Writing Competition

Pacific Legal Foundation's 7th Annual Program for Judicial Awareness Writing Competition


February

Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Dorothy Schramm World Affairs Student Writing Competition

ABA Section of Business Law's Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest

The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law's Annual Heyman Writing Contest

American Business Law Journal Student Writing Contest

National Conference of Bar Examiners Joe E Covington Prize

ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability, Bert W. Levit Essay Contest

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) Student Journal Writing Competition

Berkeley Technology Law Journal Writing Competition


March

ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law Writing Competition

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

Sovereignty Symposium's John B Doolin Writing Competition

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women's, Martha Cooper Journalism Award Contest

Roscoe Pound Institute's Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest


April

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel's Mary Moers Wenig 2006 Student Writing Competition

Bohemian Lawyers Association of Chicago Essay Contest

Cleveland State Law Review's Judge John M Manos Writing Competition in Evidence

  • Deadline: Apr 01st

Treatment Advocacy Center Essay Competition Mental Illness and the Law

ABA Section of Family Law's Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest

Doctors Opposing Circumcision, (D.O.C.), Law, Medicine & Bioethics Essay Contest

National Association of Home Builders 1st Annual Legal Writing Competition

ABA - Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities Environmental Justice Essay Competition

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, Technology Biennial Writing Competition

International Association of Defense Counsel's Defense Counsel Legal Writing Contest

Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation's, The Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing


May

Customs & International Trade Bar Association's Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition

NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund's NRA Essay Contest

  • Deadline: May 31st

People Advocating Therapeutic Homes, Annual Student Writing Competition


June

American Judges Association's Law Student Essay Contest

Notre Dame Law School's Feminist Jurisprudence Writing Competition

NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund's Law Student Scholarship Writing Contest

Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal's Essay Contest

American Planning Association Planning and Law Division's Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition

American Planning ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's James Boskey Dispute Resolution Essay Competition

ABA Section of Property, Probate and Trust Law Journal's Jacques T. Schlenger Student Writing Contest

American Inns of Court's Warren E. Burger Prize Writing Competition

Food and Drug Law Institute's H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competition

American Intellectual Property Law Association's Robert C. Watson Writing Contest

  • Deadline: Jun 30th
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American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition

Attorney-CPA Foundation Essay Contest

Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship, Inc., Theodore Tannenwald Writing Competition


July

Center for Dispute Resolution's Dispute Resolution Simulation Writing Contest


September

Animal Law Journal Student Writing Competition

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand's Essay Contest for College Students

ABA Section of Public Contract Law Writing Competition


October

American Board of Trial Advocates - Illinois Chapter, Seventh Amendment Scholarship Competition

  • Deadline: Oct 30th

Asian Law Journal's Student Writing Competition


November

Motorola Seamless Mobility Competition

William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review's Environmental Law Writing Competition


December

National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, William J. Pierce Writing Contest

The Marbury Institute of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray US LLP, Legal Affairs Writing Contest

University of Oklahoma, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Writing Competition

  • Deadline: Dec 01st

American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Writing Competition

  • Deadline: Dec 12th

Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, Inc., Annual Securities Writing Competition