Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Award Competition
- Sponsor: American Bar Association Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section
- Topic: "The entry must discuss any topic relating to administrative law."
- Format requirements in 2024 Competition included: "Submissions may not exceed 14,000 total words including footnotes and appendices, but not including the title page, and table of contents, if any. (At the discretion of the Section, the winning student may be asked to prepare a shorter version for inclusion in the Administrative and Regulatory Law News.)." "If the submission has been previously published or submitted for publication, the cover page must indicate to which publication the work was submitted and if relevant the actual or anticipated publication date. Essays must be the work of the submitting student without substantial editorial input from others. Co-authored papers are ineligible."
- Eligibility requirements in 2024 Competition included: "The Competition is open to law students who are, at the time of entry, (a) enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school, (b) members of the ABA and the Section, (c) at least 21 years old, and (d) U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents. Employees of the ABA, its affiliates, and immediate family or household members of such employees are not eligible for
the Competition."
- Entry procedure in 2024 Competition was: "There is no entry form. Entrants must submit two files to Section Director Anne Kiefer via email to anne.kiefer@americanbar.org. The first file should consist only of a cover page showing the paper’s title and the entrant’s name, law school, year of expected graduation, mailing and email address, phone number, and ABA Membership ID number. If the essay was previously submitted for publication, the cover page should also indicate to which publication the work was submitted, and if relevant, the actual or anticipated publication date. The second file consists of the entire paper with a cover page that includes nothing but the title; the contestant’s name and other identifying information, such as school name, MAY NOT appear on any page within this file."
- Prize in 2024 Competition was: "A single winning entry, as judged by the selection committee, will receive (a) a $5,000 cash prize and (b) complimentary registration for the Virtual Live Administrative Law Conference being held November 7-8, 2024." "At the sole discretion of the Section and the respective editorial boards, the winning entry may be selected for publication in the Administrative and Regulatory Law News and/or the Administrative Law Review. If selected for publication, winner will be required to sign a standard publication agreement giving the ABA the right of first publication."
- Deadline for submission in 2024 Competition was: June 30, 2024.
Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law (annual)
- Sponsor: American Constitution Society (ACS)
- Topic in 2025 Competition: "Submissions should be focused on American regulatory or administrative law, broadly construed. Appropriate subjects include empirical or comparative analyses of the effectiveness of specific regulatory regimes or deregulation; doctrinal investigations of the development of administrative law rules or principles by courts and administrative agencies and the effects of that development; and normative analyses of how particular regulatory or administrative regimes or deregulation advance or fail to advance values of fairness, participation, and transparency."
- Format in 2025 Competition: "A wide range of formats are eligible and encouraged, from traditional full-length law review articles to less academic, lightly-cited essays written to be accessible to a wide audience. Entries submitted must be in Word format and any citations in submissions should appear in footnotes, not endnotes. Submissions should be less than 25,000 words, not including footnotes. Shorter submissions are strongly encouraged."
- Eligibility requirements in 2025 Competition: "The competition is open to all lawyers and law students. Practicing lawyers, policymakers, academics, and law students all are encouraged to participate. To be considered for the law student category the author(s) must be currently enrolled in a J.D. or LLM program at a U.S. law school. Coauthored submissions are eligible and if selected, the coauthors will share the prize. Submissions must be original academic works that are either unpublished or published no more than one year prior to the competition deadline. If a submission has been published or accepted for publication, the author should include written consent from the journal to make sure it will consent to ACS posting the publication on its website, with appropriate attribution. Applicants are permitted to submit different papers to different ACS writing competitions, but they may not submit the same paper to more than one ACS writing competition."
- Prizes in 2025 Competition: "The author of the winning paper in each category (lawyer and law student) will receive a cash prize of $1,500. The winning papers will receive special recognition on the ACS website, in our weekly Member Bulletin, and potentially through other means agreed upon by the authors and ACS. For example, the Harvard Law and Policy Review (HLPR) will consider publication of appropriate pieces that meet HLPR’s guidelines."
- Deadline for submission in 2025 Competition: "Monday, February 3, 2025, at 11:59 PM (in your local time zone)."