Outside scholarships and writing competitions
2010 Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition
Open to third year students. In the discretion of the Dean, second-year students may also compete. However, second-year students who receive awards may not compete in their third year. Subject matter is any aspect of Copyright Law. First place is $600 for each local participating law school, paid through the Dean, upon his written certification. First place for National Award is $3,000. Deadline is June 30, 2010. For more information, www.ascap.com.
2010 Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest
Essay Topic: "Everyone wants to live at teh expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of every." Frederic Bastiat
Assuming Bastiat is correct, what ideas or reforms could be developed to make people better aware that government wants to live at their expense. $26,500 in cash prizes. Deadline May 3, 2010. Open to Current college students, including those in graduate school and junio faculty. For more information, go to www.independent.org/essay.
Rhode Island bar Foundation's Thomas F. Black Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship is a one year, non-renerable award for full time students who are Rhode Island residents entering their first year of law school in September 2010. The deadline for filing application with the RI Bar Foundation is Friday, March 19, 2010. The objective of this scholarship is to support high legal practice standards by providing financial assistance to Rhode Island residents who show promise that they will become outstanding lawyers, will adhere to such standards and demonstrate a need for financial assistance in order to study law at quality law schools. This year the Foundation intends to make two awards of $15,000 to prospective, first year law students for the academic year 2010-11. For application, contact the financial aid office at 603-228-1541, ext. 1105.
The American Judges Association's 2009 Law Student Essay Competition
Open to all full-time law students enrolled in and attending an accredited law school in the U.S. or Canada. First prize is $3,000, second is $1,500 and third is $1,000. Essay topic is "The Pluses and Minuses of eDiscovery" or "The Effect of Melendez-Diaz on State Statutory Schemes for Admission of Lab Results". Deadline is June 1, 2010. For more information, go too http://aja.ncsc.dni.us.
The American Society of Legal Writer's 2010 Brief-Writing Competition
This competition covers the current school year - 9/09-5/10. If one of your moot-court teams wrote the best brief in the national moot-court competition, or wrote the best brief in any prelimiary regional competition held before a national competition, please enter the brief into the Scribes 2010 competition. Submit no later than April 16, 2010. See Scholarship bulletin board for more information on submitting briefs.
Finigan Diversity Scholarship
The scholarship will provide financial support to qualified minority law students who have demonstrated a commitment to pursuing a career in IP law. The scholarship award of $15,000 may be applied to costs associated with normal tuition; usual fees (such as, but not limited to, student activity fees; law school or university fees, and administrative fees); and a patent bar review course. The scholarship recipient will also accept an offer to join the firm as a 2011 summer associate in one of our domestic offices (Atlanta, Cambridge, Palo Alto, Reston or Washington). Students currently completing their first year full-time (or second year part-time) are invited to apply. The award will be applied to education costs the following academic year, and may be renewed for one additional year if the scholar accepts an associate offer upon successful completion of the Finnegan summer associate program and maintains a grade point average of 3.0 or better in law school. Attached is the scholarship application. Additional information about the scholarship and application form are posted at www.finnegan.com. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2010.
Warren E. Burger Prize
Writing competition designed to encourage outstanding scholarship that promotes the ideals of excellance, civility, ethics and professionalism within the legal profession. Interested authors are asked to submit an original, unpublished essay of 10,000 - 25,000 words on a topic that addresses issues of legal excellence, civility, ethics and professionalism. $5,000 in cash prize awarded and essay will be published in the S. Carolina Law Review. More details can be found at www.innsofcourt.org. Deadline June 15, 2010.
2010 Intellectual Property Law Student Writing Competition
The Intellectual Property Section of the Virginia State Bar is pleased to announce its 2010 Intellectual Property Law Student Writing Competition. Students attending Virginia law schools or Virginia residents attending law school outside Virginia are invited to submit articles relating to intellectual property law or the practice of intellectual property law. All entries must be received by May 29, 2010. The winner receives a $4,000 cash prize and publication of the paper on the section's website. Complete details are available here.
Stephen E. Herrmann Environmental Writing Award
This award is a stipend of $3,500 to the author of the winnining article and $500 to the submitting law journal. Judging criteria: The prize will be awarded to the author of a student article published by the submitting law journal during the current academic year that in the judgement of the ACOEL best presents a current topic of environmental law. Entries must be postmarked by June 1, 2010. Further info on Financial Aid bulletin board or email David Tundermann at dtundermann@parsonsbehle.com.
International Association of Defense Counsel
Prize winning articles and honorable mentions will be considered for publication in the Defense Counsel Journal. First prize is $2,000 and plaque, second prize is $1,000, third is $500. All JD candidates enrolled in the 2009-10 academic year at accredited law schools are eligible to submit articles. Deadline is May 14, 2010. For more information, go to www.iadclaw.org.
Paralyzed Veteran's of America Annual Legal Writing Competition
Competition is open to law students and law school graduates. Prizes of $3,000 each will be awarded in two divisions: law student and professional. For more information, go to the Legal issues section at www.pva.org. Deadline 6/1/10.
Fifth Annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition
Competition carries a $500 prize for the first place essay and the opportunity for the winning esssay to be published in the summer edition of the Woman Lawyers Journal. Deadline is April 30, 2010. For more information go to nawl@nawl.org.
Oklahoma Supreme Court/Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission Writing Scholarships
As part of the Sovereignty Symposium, there are several types of scholarships: one fully funded scholarship in honor of Susan Ferrell, one hundred tuition fee-waiver Ed Edmondson scholarship and the Chief Justice John Doolin writing competition. Cash prizes of $500, $300, and $200 are awarded for the writing competition. Deadline for Edmondson Scholarship is May 7, 2010 and Deadline for Ferrell Scholarshop is April 1, 2010. For more details see poster on financial aid bulletin board.
Holocaust Remembrence Essay Award
Essays can be on any topic and concern any matter, provided only that they somehow address the relationship between law and the Holocaust. To be eligible, essays must be original student work; must have been composed in partial satisfaction of the requirements for an undergraduate or graduate degree in law at any law school in North America, must be 7,500 and 10,000 words in length, inclusive of references; must be accompanied by a letter of endorsement from the professor for whose course, or under whose direction, the essay was written; and must be submitted, in hardcopy and in electronic form as a MS Word 97 or above document no later than July 1, 2010. The best essay will be awarded a certificatte and an honorarium of $500 CDN. For further information go to www.law.ualberta.ca .
ABA Section of Science & Technology Law 2010 Law Student Writing Contest
THIS YEAR’S FOCUS: EMERGING LEGAL ISSUES IN THE STORAGE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
More than ever before, public and private entities process health, payment card, or other personally identifiable information in the course of their routine daily activities. E-discovery statistics show that 90% of public and private enterprise records are now electronically generated or stored. Yet the prevalence of data breaches involving personally identifiable information raises significant questions as to how such data is being stored and protected.
Contest submissions should address the following questions: What are the most important emerging legal issues for entities that store personally identifiable information, and how should these issues be addressed? What steps should government and private companies take to protect consumers from data breaches? Are existing and proposed data breach laws effective in protecting individuals and preventing data breaches? What security and privacy measures and controls should private organizations be required to take? What legal standards should apply? Successful article submissions should discuss how these issues should be addressed by (1) public and private entities in the discharge of their duties and obligations; and (2) courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies as they seek to provide appropriate protection for the public at large.
The winner will receive a trip to the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA and may have the submission published in The SciTech Lawyer. All submissions are due April 1, 2010, and the winner will be notified by June 1, 2010.
Full contest rules and submission criteria can be found on the Section’s website at: http://new.abanet.org/sections/scitech/Pages/studentwritingcontest.aspx.
Marilynne Graboys Wool Scholarship
In order to qualify as an applicant, you must meet the following criteria:
· Woman.
· Financial need.
· Rhode Island resident.
· Plan to attend graduate school to attain a law degree at an accredited institution.
Please click on the following link to learn how to register and apply:
2010 FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
NALJF is currently requesting applications for the 2010 Fellowship. The topic for the 2010 Fellowship is “Transparency in Government in the Context of Administrative Adjudication.” The proposed article may be a general overview of this topic or a more focused approach. The author can address the meaning of transparency and the implications of the issue, with a point of view for or against “transparency” as defined by the author. The proposed article can include discussion of practical implications and/or the philosophical principles or social policies at stake. Examples of sub-topics could include but are not limited to any of the following sub-categories: ex parte communications, including between adjudicator and agency personnel; confidentiality and privacy issues; national security issues; and criminal investigations.
As an alternative to the above topic, an applicant may submit a topic of the applicant's choosing. To be considered, such a submission should propose, for approval by the Fellowship Committee, a scholarly review of the law on an issue relevant to executive-branch adjudication at any level of government.
All applications for the 2010 Fellowship must be in electronic format (WORD format preferred) and must include the following documents: (1) an abstract or an introduction to the proposed article, (2) a detailed outline for the proposed article, (3) a writing sample, (4) curriculum vitae, and (5) a list of publications. All submissions must be sent by e-mail to naalj@naalj.org, with a CC to jfarrell.nysalja@yahoo.com. The deadline for all submissions is ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />April 30, 2010.
The Fellowship Committee will review the submissions and select the Fellowship Winner by May 30, 2010.
The Fellow will prepare an original article for publication in the Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary, and will deliver a fifty-minute oral presentation at the 2010 NAALJ Annual Conference in California in October, 2010. The final draft of the paper will be due January 1, 2011.
The Fellow will receive a $1500.00 cash stipend, as well as transportation, accommodations, and meals, at the 2010 NAALJ Annual Meeting and Educational Conference in California in October of 2010.
New England Employee Benefits Counsel Scholarship
$5,000 scholarship awarded to graduate students who are considering a career in a benefits-related area such as health care program design, pension plan design, retirement strategies, health risk management, workers comp. and more. For more details go to www.neebc.org. Deadline is April 1, 2010.
Judge John Brown Scholarship Foundation's Excellence in Legal Writing Competition
$10,000 will be awarded to a law student currently enrolled in an accredited law school in the US seeking a JD or LLB degree . Consideration will be made of a submission of a currrent legal writing along with a letter of recommendation by a law school faculty member or legal profession other than the author of the paper. Deadline is May 14, 2010
Alice and Samuel Yarnold Scholarship Trust
This trust was established for the purpose of providing funds for those NH residents with an interest and desire to pursue post-secondary school education in the fields of nursing, medicine or social work, but who because of financial circumstances would be otherwise unable or restricted to do so. Must be a NH resident and demonstrate FA need. $1000-$5000 per year to be awarded. Deadline is May 3, 2010. Applications on financial aid bulletin board.
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