June:
2024 CSCHS Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Competition in California Legal History
- Deadline for submission was: June 1, 2024.
Twentieth Annual Employee Benefits Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission was: June 1, 2024.
Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy + Georgetown Law Technology Review Writing Competition (annual)
- Deadline for submission was: June 3, 2024.
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 was: June 3, 2024.
National Sports Law Student Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission was: June 3, 2024.
2024 Professor William R. Ginsberg Memorial Essay Contest [environmental law]
- Deadline for submission was: June 3, 2024. [Note: Allocate sufficient time to submit a hard copy AND an electronic copy.]
James B. Boskey Law Student Essay Contest on Dispute Resolution (annual)
- Deadline for submission was: June 7, 2024.
Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition (annual) [customs and international trade law]
- Deadline for 2023 competition was: June 12, 2023. Feb. 22, 2024: Wrote to ask when material about the Twenty-Fifth Annual (2024) Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition might become available. June 5, 2024: Continue checking competition's website for future updates.
Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission was: June 14, 2024.
The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law Annual Law Student Writing Competition
- 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."
- Deadline for submission was: June 15, 2024.
American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law: 2024 Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission was: June 30, 2024.
Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Award Competition (annual) [administrative law]
- Deadline for submission was: June 30, 2024.
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 [was] June 30, 2024."
Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition [the area of trusts and estates]
- Deadline for submission was: June 30, 2024.
Robert C. Watson Award (annual) [a subject relating to the protection of intellectual property]
- Deadline for submission was: June 30, 2024.
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.
Tax Notes Student Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission was: June 30, 2024.
July:
[Fourth] Annual Health Law and Anti-Racism Graduate Student Writing Competition
- Deadline for submission was: July 1, 2024.
2024 George Hutchinson Writing Competition (annual) [subject matter areas within the Federal Circuit’s jurisdiction] + online application
- Deadline for submission was: July 1, 2024.
2024 Honorable Frederick E. McKelvey Writing Competition [U.S. patent law]
- Deadline for submission was: July 1, 2024.
National Student Writing Competition on Criminal Justice Reform
- Deadline for submission was: July 1, 2024.
Warren E. Burger Prize [a topic of your choice addressing issues of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence]
- Deadline for submission was: July 1, 2024.
William W. Greenhalgh Student Writing Competition [criminal justice]
- Deadline for submission was: July 1, 2024.
Committee on Animals and the Law of the New York State Bar Association: Student Writing Competition (annual)
- Deadline for submission was: July 5, 2024.
2024 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 was: July 10, 2024.
August:
American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Aviation and Space Law Committee: 2024 Annual Law Student 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.
Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice (annual) - In future, check the website of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.
- Deadline: 2023 Writing Prize Call for Submissions is closed. A Feb. 29, 2024 email reply stated: "The Call for Submissions typically opens in August."
