Writing Competitions
- AIPLA Robert C. Watson Competition
- Donald C. Alexander Writing Competition
- Alliance Defense Fund William Pew Religious Freedom Scholarship Competition
- Altacit Global and The Virginia Journal of Law and Technology (VJOLT) Intellectual Property Law Writing Competition
- American College of Employee Benefits
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni Inc. Writing Competition
- American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers
- The American College of Legal Medicine Student Writing Competitions
- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Mary Moers Wenig
- American Indian Law Review
- American Planning Association Planning and Law (Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition)
- H. Thomas Austern Memorial
- James E. Beckley Writing Competition
- Warren E. Burger Writing Competition American Inns of Court
- George Hutchinson Writing Competition
- Richmond Journal of Law & Technology Student Technology Law Writing Competition
- The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice
- The Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition
- Canadian American Bar Association Law Student Essay Competition
- Center for Alcohol Policy
- Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer
- Joe E. Covington Award for Research on Bar Admissions Testingt
- DISH Network® “Best in Class” eDiscovery Legal Research and Writing Competition
- Chief Justice John B. Doolin Writing Competition
- Entertainment Law Initiative
- Environmental Law Institute
- Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Health Law
- Paul Faherty Tax Law Writing Competition
- Family Law Writing Competition
- Federal Bar Association Section on Tax Law Writing Competition
- Federal Claims Bar Association Writing Competition
- Victoria Fisher Memorial Prize
- Global Markets Law Journal Writing Competition
- The National Lesbian & Gay Law Association Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
- Hofstra Law School Energy and the Environment Student Writing Competition
- The Hogan/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Contest
- The James Baker Hughes Prize
- International Association of Defense Counsel
- George Jay Joseph Education Law Writing Award
- Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation
- The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers Writing Competition
- LexisNexis™ James William Moore Federal Practice Award (requires log-in to LEXIS-NEXIS)
- Louis Jackson National Employment and Labor Law
- Robert T. Matsui Writing Competition
- Michigan Historical Review Student Essay Contest
- Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition
- The Modern America Writing Competition
- NAELA Student Journal Writing Competition
- National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees Law Student Writing Competition
- National Association of Counsel for Children On the Legal Interests of Children
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Essay Contest
- National Center for Nonsmokers' Rights Legal Research & Writing Competition
- New York State Bar Association Committee on Animals and the Law
- NNALSA (National Native American Law Students Association) Writing Competition
- Pacific Legal Foundation Judicial Awareness
- Paralyzed Veterans of America
- Alice Paul Feminist Jurisprudence Essay Contest
- People of Color Legal Scholarship
- Albert S. Pergam International Law Writing Competition New York State Bar Association
- Essay Contest on Ayn Rand’s Novel Atlas Shrugged
- Scribes
- Smith-Babcock-Williams Writing Competition
- Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition
- Dr. Emanuel Stein and Kenneth Stein Memorial Writing Competition
- The Tannenwald Writing Competition
- Trandafir Writing Competition
- Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition
- Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights Law
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