School of Law Academics Law Student Writing Competitions & Associated Scholarships
 



Law Student Writing Competitions
& Associated Scholarships

This page provides links to writing competitions and associated scholarships for law students. Details and submission criteria for most of the competitions listed here as well as other competitions are available in the Academic Affairs office.

Contact Liz Hobbs at 503-768-6648 or lhobbs@lclark.edu or stop in the Academic Affairs office for more information.


Lewis & Clark's Own

Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Award

Writing Competitions by Subject:

Business Law
Environmental Law
Health Law
Indian Law
Other Writing Competitions

Business Law
Writing Competitions

ABA Section of Business Law's Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest

ABA Section of Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Writing Contest

ASECA Securities Law Writing Competition

American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition

American Intellectual Property Law Association Watson Award Competition

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition

Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition (customs and international trade law)

Attorney-CPA Foundation

College of Labor and Employment Lawyers Law Student Writing Competition

Elliot A. Spoon Business Law Writing Competition (pdf)

FBA Section of Taxation Writing Competition

The Grammy Foundation Legal Writing Contest

Internation Association of Gaming Advisors Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award

International Technology Law Association's Mark Gordon Writing Competition

International Trademark Association Ladas Memorial Award

James Baker Hughes Prize in International Economic Law (Houston Journal of International Law)

Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law

National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees (NACTT) Law Student Writing Competition

PIABA Securities and Law Writing Competition

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology Biennial Writing Competition

Securities Law Writing Competition

Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Intellectual Property Law School Scholarship, American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation

Stanford Technology Law Review Paper Contest

The Tannenwald Writing Competition (Tax)

Trandafir International Business Writing Competition

William E. Swope Antitrust Writing Prize


Environmental Law
Writing Competitions

2009 APA Student Writing Competition

ELI-ABA-NAELS "Endangered Environmental Laws" Student Writing Competition

Environment, Energy & Resources Writing Competition

Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Parry Environmental Scholarship

The Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest

Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Joe Rudd Scholarship (.pdf)


Health Law
Writing Competitions

Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition

The American College of Legal Medicine Student Writing Competition

Elaine Osborne Jacobson Award For Women Working in Health Care Law

Epstein Becker & Green Health Law Writing Competition

Food and Drug Law Institute's H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competitions

Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Competition

Sarah Weddington Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights (LSRJ)


Indian Law
Writing Competitions

American Indian Law Review Writing Competition

National Native American Law Students Association


Other Writing Competitions

** All ABA Scholarships and Writing Contests **

ABA Section of Family Law's Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest

ABA Section of Science & Technology Law student writing competition

Albert S. Pergam International Law Writing Competition Award

American Academy of Appellate Lawyers' Eisenberg Prize

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition

American College of Trial Lawyers Writing Competitions

American Judges Association Law Student Essay Competition

Berkeley Technology Law Journal Writing Competition

California Supreme Court Historical Society 2009 Law Student Writing Competition (pdf)

Commission on Domestic Violence Writing Competition

The Dukeminier Awards Best Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law Review Articles

DRI: Annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship

Embryo Donation and Adoption Awareness Campaign Essay Competition

The Federal Circuit Bar Association's George Hutchinson Writing Competition

Hofstra Family Law Writing Competiition

Holocaust Remembrance Essay Award

Human Rights and Globalization Law Review

International Association of Defense Counsel Legal Writing Contest

Jaes Boskey ADR Writing Competition (Dispute Resolution)

Joyce Ann Harpole Memorial Scholarship

Law School Vets

Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation's Student Writing Competition

National Association of Counsel for Children Essay Competition On the Legal Interests of Children

National Association of Women Lawyers Annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition

The National Lesbian & Gay Law Association Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition

National Conference of Bar Examiners, Joe E. Covington Prize For Scholarship In Bar Admissions Topics

Notre Dame Law School- Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition

NR Civil Rights Defense Fund Writing Contests

Oregon Women Lawyers Foundation Essay Contest 2009 (PDF)

Pacific Legal Foundation Judicial Awareness Student Writing Competition

Paralyzed Veterans of America's Annual Legal Writing Competition

Puerto Rican Bar Association Scholarship Award

Southern New England Roundtable Symposium Law Journal

Students for Change 2008 (NLS Publishing)

Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Writing Competition

UCLA Journal of Law & Technology Spring 2009 Writing Contest

Victoria Fisher Memorial Prize, University of Leicester

The Warren E. Burger Prize (ethics and professionalism), American Inns of Court

Willamette Journal of Int'l Law & Dispute Resolution

William W. Greenhalgh Writing Competition (Criminal Justice)

William J. Pierce Writing Contest

Winners Gallery


2009 NYU Environmental Essay Contest

TarahHeinzen Writing winner

Tarah Heinzen's article about addressing air pollution from factory farms will be published in NYU Enviromental Law Journal this summer. It was selected through a competition she entered in December. Here's a link to the competition announcement (PDF).

1st Prize in ASCAP's Burkan Copyright Competition

Melanie Kebler

Recent Lewis & Clark Law School graduate, Ms. Melanie E. Kebler, won 1st Prize in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition with her essay entitled "Copyright Legislation Challenges and the First Amendment: Eldred's Opening and a New Direction for Copyright Law Evaluation."

Publication in the Defense Counsel Journal

Dorothy Schmidt

Dorothy Schmidt won the International Association of Defense Counsel legal writing contest. Her paper will be published in the Defense Counsel Journal.

Read the article.



Publication in NAELA Journal

Jerry Carleton

Jerry Carleton won publication of his paper in the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Student Journal.

Read the article



National Writing Honor

PLF - Tami Santelli

Tami Santelli won a cash prize in the Pacific Legal Foundation writing contest.

Read the article



AILR Writing Competition Winner

AILR - Michael Lawrence

Student Michael Lawrence won the American Indian Law Review writing competition.

Read the article



Have you won a writing competition and want to be listed here? Contact Sherry Thompson at 503-768-6648 or slt@lclark.edu.