June:
2024 CSCHS Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Competition in California Legal History
- Deadline: "Submissions are due by June 1, 2024."
James B. Boskey Law Student Essay Contest on Dispute Resolution (annual)
- Deadline: "Details about the 2024 essay contest will be forthcoming." This ABA page states: "Applications typically close each year in June."
Twentieth Annual Employee Benefits Writing Competition
- Deadline: June 1, 2024. "[Papers] must be received no later than Midnight in the submitting student’s time zone on the Deadline."
Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy + Georgetown Law Technology Review Writing Competition (annual)
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: "Papers must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM ET on Monday, June 3, 2024."
National Sports Law Student Writing Competition
- Deadline: "All submissions to the 2024 competition must be received by ... June 3, 2024."
2024 Professor William R. Ginsberg Memorial Essay Contest [environmental law]
- Deadline: June 3, 2024. [Note: Allocate sufficient time to submit a hard copy AND an electronic copy.]
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.
Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition
- Deadline: "Submissions must be emailed no later than 11:59 p.m., 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: "[B]y midnight (EDT) on June 15, 2024."
American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law: 2024 Writing Competition
- Deadline: "Entries must be submitted by e-mail on or before June 30, 2024 by 11:59 p.m. (central)."
Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Award Competition (annual) [administrative law]
- Deadline: "Entries must be received by 7:00 pm Eastern time on 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 is June 30, 2024."
Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition [the area of trusts and estates]
- Deadline: "June 30, 2024."
Robert C. Watson Award (annual) [a subject relating to the protection of intellectual property]
- Deadline: "The 2024 submission window is open. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2024."
Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition (annual)
- Deadline for submission in 2023 Competition was: June 30, 2023. A March 4, 2024 email reply stated that information about the 2024 Competition "will be available on or before April 16 [2024] (The American Planning Association’s National Conference) with an end of June deadline similar to last year’s." "Details will be available at https://www.planning.org/divisions/planningandlaw/writingcompetition." Checked site on April 17, 2024 at noon - details about 2024 Competition were not yet available.
Tax Notes Student Writing Competition
- Deadline: "The 2024 submission period is now open. Entries must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. EDT on June 30, 2024."
July:
[Fourth] Annual Health Law and Anti-Racism Graduate Student Writing Competition
- Deadline: "Please submit your paper and abstract (in one file), as well as a resume/CV for all authors, by July 1, 2024 to Holly Fernandez Lynch at lynchhf@pennmedicine.upenn.edu with the subject line reading “ASLME Writing Competition."
2024 George Hutchinson Writing Competition (annual) [subject matter areas within the Federal Circuit’s jurisdiction] + online application
- Deadline: "The submission window opens on April 19, 2024." "Entries must be postmarked no later than July 1, 2024."
2024 Honorable Frederick E. McKelvey Writing Competition [U.S. patent law]
- Deadline: "Candidates shall submit essays for consideration on or before Monday, July 1, 2024, by email to email@AAPJ.us (include “McKelvey Writing Competition” in the subject line)."
National Student Writing Competition on Criminal Justice Reform
- Deadline: Arizona State Law Journal's website states: "Submissions for the 2023 contest are now closed and a winner has been notified. Keep an eye out for next year's contest." Deadline for 2023 contest was: July 1, 2023.
Warren E. Burger Prize [a topic of your choice addressing issues of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence]
- Deadline: "Send the completed cover page and essay no later than July 1 by e-mail to Cindy Dennis." March 3, 2024 email reply stated: "[D]eadline for submission is no later than July 1, 2024."
William W. Greenhalgh Student Writing Competition [criminal justice]
- Deadline: "All entries must be received by the editor no later than July 1, 2024, 11:59 pm CST."
Committee on Animals and the Law of the New York State Bar Association: Student Writing Competition (annual)
- Deadline: "The deadline for submission is Friday, 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: "9:00 p.m. EDT, 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."
