Student Writing Competition
Student Writing Competition
Competition Rules:
TOPIC: A cutting-edge legal/law and society issue related to the conference theme:
Equality and Justice in the Obama Era. Students may either write about equality or
justice as separate legal issues or their intersectionality.
ELIGIBILITY: The 2010 competition is open to all students currently enrolled in an
ABA- accredited law school during the 2009-2010 academic years. The student must be
a current J.D. candidate.
AWARDS:
FIRST PLACE:
• $1,000 Cash Award
• All Expense Paid Trip (airfare + hotel + registration) to the 2010 People of Color
Legal Scholarship Conference at the University of South Carolina School of Law,
Columbia, South Carolina.
• First Place Award Plaque presented during Awards Ceremony.
• Special Works-in-Progress Session to Present Paper
• Assistance/feedback on improving the paper for publication.
SECOND PLACE:
• $500 Cash Award
• Second Place Award Plaque
FORMAT: Entries should be a scholarly piece fit for publication in a law review. Entries
should follow standard footnote formatting, including Bluebook (18th edition) citation
form. All entries must be submitted in English. Each entry should be no longer than 45-
50 single-sided double-spaced pages with one-inch margins and 12-point Times New
Roman font. Entries containing endnotes or including appendices or supplemental
material will not be considered.
Published papers or papers already accepted for publication are ineligible. Each
student may submit only one entry. Entries should be the sole work of the author and
should not yet have undergone editing by others. Editing includes any significant
revision as well as technical or substantive review of citations. Informal support, such as
general comments on preliminary drafts, is permitted.
All entries must be submitted electronically in either Word or PDF format.
All competition papers will undergo a blind review process from the writing competition
panel. Therefore, entrants should not include their name or the name of their school on
the competition paper itself. Instead, participants must submit a cover page indicating
their name, school, permanent address, and telephone number.
DEADLINE: Entries must be submitted no later than January 15, 2009. Entries are
submitted via email to Donald.Tibbs@drexel.edu.
Questions? Please contact Professor Donald F. Tibbs at Donald.Tibbs@drexel.edu or
via teleconference at 215.571.4773
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