June:
Employee Benefits Writing Competition (annual)
- Deadline for submission in 2025 Competition: June 1, 2025.
Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition [the area of trusts and estates]
- Deadline for submission in 2025 Competition: June 1, 2025.
Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition (annual) [customs and international trade law]
- Deadline for submission in 2024-2025 Competition: "Papers must be submitted here by June 2, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET."
National Sports Law Student Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission: "All submissions to the 2025 competition must be received by Monday, June 2, 2025."
H. Thomas Austern Writing Competition [Topical focus should be on FDA-regulated industries: food, drugs, animal drugs, biologics, cosmetics, diagnostics, dietary supplements, medical devices, veterinary devices, cannabis, or tobacco and nicotine products.]
- Deadline for submission in 2024 Competition was: June 3, 2024. May 18, 2025: Wrote to sponsor seeking information about a possible 2025 competition. Email reply stated: "We plan to open the 2025 Austern Writing Competition for submissions very soon."
2025 Professor William R. Ginsberg Memorial Essay Contest [environmental law]
- Deadline for submission: June 3, 2025. [Note: Allocate sufficient time to submit a hard copy AND an electronic copy.]
Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy + Georgetown Law Technology Review Writing Competition (annual)
- Deadline for submission: June 6, 2025.
James B. Boskey Law Student Essay Contest on Dispute Resolution (annual)
- Deadline for submission: June 6, 2025.
Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission in 2025 Competition: "Entries for the competition must be submitted in pdf and sent by email to Cherie Jump, jump_cs@law.mercer.edu with subject line “Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition.” Submissions must be emailed no later than 11:59 p.m., June 13, 2025."
The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law Annual Law Student Writing Competition
- Consult the 2025 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."
- Deadline for submission: "Articles must be submitted to swan@laborandemploymentcollege.org, using the subject line “Writing Competition,” by midnight (EDT) on June 15, 2025."
Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Law and Policy Student Writing Competition ("The competition is being held in connection with a one-day symposium on the topic “Navigating Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: From Science to Regulation” which will be co-hosted by the Sabin Center and New York Sea Grant in September 2025.")
- Deadline for submission: "Please email your completed submissions to ashwin.murthy@columbia.edu with the subject line “mCDR Law Symposium – Writing Competition Submission” by June 15, 2025."
American Bar Association Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee: Law Student Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission: "No later than 11:59 PM Central Time, Monday, June 16, 2025."
Everytown Law Fund Law Student Writing Competition [gun violence prevention & gun safety]
- Deadline for submission: "Entries must be received on or before June 20, 2025 by midnight ET via submission in the form."
Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition (annual) [legal history, rare law books, or legal archives]
- Deadline for submission: "Deadline for submission: "Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m., June 20, 2025 (EDT) to be considered."
American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law: 2025 Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission in 2025 Competition: "Entries must be submitted by e-mail on or before June 29, 2025 by 11:59 p.m. (central)."
Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Award Competition (annual) [administrative law]
- Deadline for submission was: June 30, 2024. May 21, 2025: Emailed competition sponsor seeking information about the 2025 Competition.
Honorable Frederick E. McKelvey Writing Competition [U.S. patent law]
- Deadline for submission in 2025 Competition: "Candidates shall submit essays for consideration on or before Monday, June 30, 2025, by email to email@AAPJ.us (include “McKelvey Writing Competition” in the subject line)"
Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award [pharmacy law]
- Deadline: "Interested parties are invited to nominate published papers written by themselves or other authors." "The deadline for submission of nominations for the Larry M. Simonsmeier Award is June 30, 2025."
Robert C. Watson Award (annual) [a subject relating to the protection of intellectual property]
- Deadline for submission: June 30, 2025.
Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition (annual) [a question of significance in planning, planning law, land use law, local government law or environmental law]
- Deadline for submission was: June 30, 2024. May 21, 2025: Emailed competition sponsor seeking information about the 2025 Competition.
Tax Notes Student Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission: "Entries must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. EDT on June 30, 2025."
July:
George Hutchinson Writing Competition (annual) [subject matter areas within the Federal Circuit’s jurisdiction] + online application
- Deadline for submission: Submissions must be submitted no later than July 1, 2025, at the link above.
National Student Writing Competition on Criminal Justice Reform
- Deadline for submission was: July 1, 2024.
Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Competition in California Legal History
- Deadline for submission: July 1, 2025.
Warren E. Burger Prize [a topic of your choice addressing issues of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence]
- Deadline for submission: July 1, 2025.
William W. Greenhalgh Student Writing Competition [criminal justice]
- Deadline for submission: "All entries must be received by the editor no later than July 1, 2025, 11:59 pm CST."
Committee on Animals and the Law of the New York State Bar Association: Student Writing Competition (annual)
- Deadline in 2025 Competition: "Papers must be submitted no later than Monday, July 7, 2025.".
2025 Tannenwald Writing Competition [Papers on any federal or state tax-related topic may be submitted in accordance with the Competition Rules]
- Deadline for submitting papers: 9:00 p.m. EDT, July 11, 2025.
August:
Fifth Annual Health Law and Anti-Racism Graduate Student Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission: "Please submit your paper and abstract (in one file), as well as a resume/CV for all authors, by August 1, 2025 to Seema Mohapatra at smohapatra@smu.edu with the subject line reading “ASLME Writing Competition.”
New York State Bar Association Business Law Section: Annual Student Writing Competition
- Requirements stated at website above include: "All submissions become the property of the NYSBA and the Business Law Journal. By submitting an article, the student is deemed to consent to its publication, whether or not a cash prize is awarded. To enter, the student should submit an original, unpublished manuscript in Word format to David L. Glass, editor in chief, NYSBA New York Business Law Journal (david.glass@macquarie.com). The student should include a brief biography, including law school attended, degree for which the student is a candidate, and expected year of graduation."
- Deadline: Submissions should be made by August 15 for the Fall issue of the New York Business Law Journal.
