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Writing Competitions for Law Students: Additional: Opportunities for Law Students to Present Scholarly Work

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Additional: Opportunities for Law Students to Present Scholarly Work

Brooklyn Law & Political Economy Collective [a student organization] solicited papers for its Second Annual Student Symposium.

  • Description: Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project 
    • Note: Brooklyn Law School’s student organization is a: Law and Political Economy (LPE) Chapter.
  • Excerpt from the Call for Papers stated: "We invite scholarship that analyzes how the law shapes and upholds systems of power and envisions alternatives to the inequality created by our current political economy."
    • Potential Topics: The text accompanying the Call for Papers stated: "Papers can be on a range of legal topics, including antitrust and economic justice, police and prison abolition, confronting U.S. imperialism, climate crises, and so much more."
  • Submission Type was: "Working paper: near publication ready."
  • Criteria in the Call for Papers stated: "[P]apers should not be accepted for publication elsewhere (i.e. any journal or law review)."  "Only current Brooklyn Law Students can submit."
  • Deadline for submissions was: February 28, 2025.  Symposium date was: April 11, 2025.  "Panelists will need to be in person." 

McGill Graduate Law Conference (annual)

  • Description of 2025 McGill Graduate Law Conference states: "Now in its 18th edition, the General Conference provides a platform for graduate students to engage in discussions on pressing legal issues and share different perspectives.  In the past, the General Conference has been a chance for graduate students to present their research, receive feedback, interact with their peers, and engage in the graduate community.  Continuing this tradition, we invite abstracts for the General Conference on the theme of Anatomy of a Crisis.  Submissions to the General Conference are open to master's students, doctoral students, and early career academics."
  • Theme of 2025 McGill Graduate Law Conference: "The theme 'Anatomy of a Crisis' invites an interdisciplinary examination of crises in their many forms, offering a platform to dissect their causes, dynamics, and consequences through diverse legal and academic lenses."
  • Deadline to apply for the 2025 General Conference or/and the Maxwell Doctoral Seminar was: February 20, 2025.  Date of 2025 McGill Graduate Law Conference: May 8-9, 2025.