Fall Semester (Sept. - Dec.) - Writing Competitions for Law Students

Competitions with Fall Semester (Sept. - Dec.) Deadlines

September:

Deadline for submission in 2025 Competition: "Please submit all entries to Maura L. Walsh, Esq. at maura.walsh@usaig.com by September 8, 2025."

IFA USA Branch 2025 Writing Competition [Any topic relating to U.S. taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under U.S. tax treaties.]

Note: "Each submitted paper must be sponsored by a professor of the student." "The same professor may serve as the faculty sponsor of no more than three papers submitted for the current Competition." "No more than five papers may be submitted by students from the same school or university for the Competition."
Submission Deadline for the 2025 Writing Prize: September 30, 2025.

Last registration deadline was: September 30, 2023. Received 9/4/2024 email response stating: “The Competitions are anticipated to next be in the fall of 2025, potentially in conjunction with the US Animal Law Conference and hosted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. When further information is available it will be updated on our website."

October:

Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Contest (annual)

Deadline for submission: "Completed manuscripts and accompanying documents ... must be submitted via email to eli_submissions@recordingacademy.com on or before October 8, 2025 at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST)."

November:

National Security Law Writing Competition (annual) - search here or here for information about a possible future 2025 Competition.

Conduct Detrimental 2023 NIL Writing Competition [sports law] - Monitor site for information about a possible future competition.

Deadline: Team registration closed on November 15, 2024. "There is no entry fee for the Competition."

December:

Aaron Wersing Employment Discrimination Scholarship Contest [500-word essay about what employment discrimination law is and how job discrimination rates can be reduced and mitigated]

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (JOLT), JOLT Law & AI Student Note Competition

Dukeminier Awards: Jeffrey S. Haber Prize for Student Scholarship (annual) [recognizes the best law review note written by a student in the field of sexual orientation and gender identity law]