"Environmental Justice" Writing Competition! Get Published and Win Cash!

The winning entry will be awarded a prize of $1000 and will be published in a special issue of the Mississippi Law Journal together with other articles and materials from the Symposium. In addition to the first prize, the Competition will award a second prize of $500 and a third prize of $250. The first place paper will also be published on the ABA-SEER website as will the second and third place papers

-OPEN TO ALL CURRENTLY ENROLLED LAW STUDENTS-

Any relevant article, case comment, note, or essay may be submitted, including writing submitted for academic credit. Jointly authored pieces are eligible only if all authors are students and consent to submit. Previously published pieces, or pieces that are already slated for publication, are ineligible.

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Win $5k CASH! Writing Contest! Must submit "intent to enter" by Jan.31st! HURRY!

Topic for the 2011 contest is "The Gulf Oil Spill: Who Are They and How Do They Get Compensated"

The author of the winning essay will receive a $5,000 cash prize; recognition in the Public Justice newsletter and on the website; publication of the essay in the Vermont Law School’s online Journal of Environmental Law; and a free Public Justice Foundation membership for the Contest Year.

Any student currently enrolled in an accredited American law school may enroll in the contest. Each entry must be submitted through a faculty adviser. All entrants must submit an INTENT TO ENTER FORM by January 31, 2011. The deadline for the essay is March 31, 2011. A panel of nationally renowned trial lawyers and law professors will judge the entries.


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Student Writing Competition: "Endangered Environmental Laws" ($2000 cash prize!)

Co-Sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute, the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies

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Award: $2000 cash prize, an offer of publication in the Environmental Law Reporter, and a one-year individual membership to ELI.

Topic: Any topic addressing recent developments or trends in U.S. environmental law that have a significant constitutional or “federalism” component. (See sample topics below.)

Eligibility: Students currently enrolled in law school (in the U.S. or abroad) are eligible, including students who will graduate in the spring or summer of 2011. 





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Another Student Writing Competition

For any student interested in a writing contest on the constitutional legitimacy of environmental law check this out:

Fifth Annual “Endangered Environmental Laws”
Student Writing Competition (2009-2010)

Co-sponsored by

The Environmental Law Institute

The American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources

The National Association of Environmental Law Societies

 





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Environmental Law Essay Contest

The following is Information regarding the "2010 Professor William R. Ginsberg Memorial Essay Contest".  This is an annual competition designed to get law students to challenge themselves in regards to environmental Issues.





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