Aaron Wersing Employment Discrimination Scholarship Contest
- Sponsor: The Law Office of Aaron D. Wersing, PLLC
- Topic & Format: "We are asking students to write a 500-word essay about what employment discrimination law is and how job discrimination rates can be reduced and mitigated. We are looking for the most creative and cohesive essay."
- Eligibility: "Applicants must be EITHER be out-going high school seniors (graduating summer 2024) OR students currently enrolled in a college, trade school, university, or law school as of the start of the fall 2024 semester."
- Prize: "The student who is selected will receive a $1,000 scholarship to put towards their tuition costs."
- Deadline: December 1, 2024.
The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law Annual Law Student Writing Competition
- Sponsor: Section of Labor and Employment Law, American Bar Association & The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
- Topic: A topic that is "relevant, engaging and useful to labor and employment lawyers in their practices." Consult the 2024 Competition's announcement/rules and Judges' Scoring Guide. The rules state: "Students are required to confer or consult with a labor or employment law professor or practitioner on topics."
- Format and Eligibility requirements included in announcement/rules of 2024 Competition: "This competition is open to articles written while the author is an active student at an accredited law school in the United States. Authors may not have graduated from law school prior to December 1, 2023. Graduate students in law school (LLM candidates) are not eligible." "The manuscript, exclusive of the cover page, must be between 20 and 30 pages."
- Prizes: "First Place: $3000; Second Place: $1000, and Third Place: $500." "One or more articles may be selected for publication in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law. Papers should not be submitted if the author is unwilling to commit to the paper being printed in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law assuming your paper wins first place." "In addition, the author of the first-place paper will be a guest at the ABA Annual Section of Labor and Employment Law Conference and honored at the Annual Induction Dinner of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers."
- Deadline: "[B]y midnight (EDT) on June 15, 2024."
Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition
- Sponsor & Administrator: Sponsor: Jackson Lewis P.C. & Administrator: Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace.
- Topic of the 2023–2024 Competition was: "Judges will consider papers on any topic relating to laws governing the workplace, such as employment law, labor law, employee benefits, or employment discrimination."
- Format Requirements for Papers in 2023-2024 Competition included: "Entries must be suitable for publication in a law review. Citations must conform to current Bluebook style. Papers must not exceed 35 pages in length when printed on 8½ x 11-inch paper, including footnotes."
- Eligibility requirements in 2023-2024 Competition included: "Entries must be the law student author’s own work. Authors must have completed or be currently taking coursework in employment or labor law and must be enrolled in an accredited law school in the US during the Spring 2024 semester. Only the first two submissions per law school will be accepted as entries for consideration."
- Prizes in 2023–2024 Competition were: "The first-place award is $3,000. Two $1,000 awards will be presented to two second-place winners. All awards are in the form of scholarships."
- Deadline to submit papers for 2023–2024 Competition was: January 16, 2024.
New York State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section: Dr. Emanuel Stein and Kenneth Stein Memorial Law Student Writing Competition [Any current issue involving labor or employment law.]
- Sponsor: New York State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section
- Topic in 2023 Competition was: "Any current issue involving labor or employment law. The scope of permissible topics for the article is broad, i.e., any aspect of public or private labor or employment law." 2023 Competition Rules also stated: "Articles must be original from the applicant. Each student entrant is limited to one entry; multiple entries by the same person are expressly prohibited. In addition, they must not have been submitted for other publication or written as part of paid employment."
- Format in 2023 Competition Rules stated: "No longer than 20 pages in length (exclusive of endnotes)."
- Eligibility requirements in 2023 Competition Announcement stated: "All law school students."
- Prizes were: "First Place: $3,000 and publication in Section newsletter; Second Place: $2,000; Third Place: $1,000." (See this Section's website.)
- Deadline for 2023 Competition was: November 30, 2023.
