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

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

September:

IFA USA Branch 2024 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 2024 Writing Prize was: September 30, 2024.

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:

November:

Deadline: "November 9, 2024: Team Registration closes." "There is no entry fee for the Competition."

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

Deadline for submission: November 20, 2024. "Entries should be submitted in one email by November 20, 2024 in PDF or Word format to education@aien.org including: Current curriculum vitae that does not exceed one page in 12-point font and complete contact information including name, email address and phone number."

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]

Deadline for entry: Each contestant must send one copy of the paper, resume and interest statement via email by 12:00 p.m. (Central Standard Time), December 27, 2024, to: Alyssa Ewing, Director, ABA Health Law Section at alyssa.ewing@americanbar.org. Upon receipt, the ABA Health Law Section will assign each paper a random number to ensure name and law school affiliation anonymity throughout the review process.