Student Writing Competitions
Here is a collection of recent announcements of student writing competitions.
Law Student Writing Competitions - This is a list of law student writing competitions for the 2007-2008 school year and summer 2008 semester (in PDF format).
The list is sorted by type of competition. Students who are interested in writing a scholarly paper may want to scan the list for topic ideas. Please contact the sponsor through the URL for more information.
Please contact Professor Templin at btemplin@tjsl.edu with questions, comments or updates for this list.
This list was compiled on September 1, 2007 for use by Thomas Jefferson School of Law students. Updates will be provided throughout the year.
Lists of student writing competitions can also be found at the following sites:
Law Student Essay Contests (University of Richmond)
Law Student Writing Competitions (Lewis & Clark Law School)
Advice for Scholarly Articles:
Elizabeth Fajans & Mary R. Falk, Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar Papers, Law Review Notes, and Law Review Competition Papers (3 d ed. 2005)
Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, and Seminar Papers (3 d ed. 2007)
Eugene Volokh, Writing a Student Article, 48 J. Legal Educ. 247 (1998)
In addition to the guidance provided in these sources, you may wish to consult lawtopic.org for a list of possible topics for law review articles.
If you wish to publish in a law review other than your own, see the following directories of law reviews:
LexisNexis Directory of Law Reviews
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