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Writing Competition

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR
The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law
Annual Law Student Writing Competition for 2011-2012


The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law are pleased to announce their 2011-2012 writing competition. This competition is open to articles written while the author is a student at an accredited law school in the United States. Authors may not have graduated from law school prior to December 1, 2011. Graduate students in law school (LLM candidates) are not eligible. Entries may address any aspect of public or private sector labor and/or employment law relevant to the American labor and employment bar. Students are encouraged to discuss a public policy issue, practical implications of a leading case or doctrine, a statute or the need for statutory modification, or a common law doctrine. Entries will be evaluated on topic selection, analysis, quality of research, grammar, spelling, usage and syntax, clarity, structure, overall appearance, and relevance to the practicing labor and employment law bar.

The following prizes may be awarded by the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers: First Place: $1500, Second Place: $1000, Third Place: $500. The first-place winning article will be published in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, and its author will be a guest at the annual CLE program of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law and honored at the Annual Induction Dinner of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. The College and the Section reserve the right not to select any article for publication or award any prizes if, in their judgment, the submissions do not meet their standards for publication.

To be considered, articles must be submitted by 6 p.m. EDST on May 15, 2012, to swan@laborandemploymentcollege.org using the subject line “Writing Competition.” The author’s name shall appear on a cover page and also include the author’s law school, graduation date, e-mail and street address, and telephone number. Submit the manuscript and cover page as a single attachment in both Microsoft Word and PDF documents using 12-point Times New Roman font. The text should be double-spaced and the footnotes single-spaced with double-spacing between footnotes on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with one-inch margins on all sides. The manuscript, exclusive of the cover page, may not exceed twenty pages. All citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th Edition). Do not submit endnotes, a table of contents or table of cases. Manuscripts must be the original work of a single author, may not have been written for paid employment, and may not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Competition rules are also available at www.laborandemploymentcollege.org.


Rules


  • Entries may address any aspect of public or private sector labor and/or employment law relevant to the American labor and employment bar. Students are encouraged to discuss a public policy issue, practical implications of a leading case or doctrine, a statute or the need for statutory modification, or a common law doctrine.
  • The competition is open to articles written while the author is a student at an accredited law school in the United States. Authors may not have graduated from law school prior to December 1, 2011. Graduate students in law school (LLM candidates) are not eligible.
  • Entries will be evaluated on topic selection, analysis, quality of research, grammar, spelling, usage and syntax, clarity, structure, and overall appearance.
  • Articles must be submitted by 6 p.m. EDST on May 15, 2012, to swan@laborandemploymentcollege.org using the subject line “Writing Competition.” Submit the manuscript and a cover page as an e-mail attachment. The author’s name shall appear on a cover page and also include the author’s law school, graduation date, e-mail and street address, and telephone number.
  • The attached manuscript and cover page should be submitted in both Microsoft Word and PDF documents using 12-point Times New Roman font. The text should be double-spaced and the footnotes single-spaced with double-spacing between footnotes on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with one-inch margins on all sides. The manuscript, exclusive of the cover page, may not exceed twenty pages. Do not submit endnotes, a table of contents or table of cases.
  • All citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th Edition).
  • Manuscripts must be the original work of a single author, may not have been written for paid employment, and may not have been submitted for publication elsewhere.
  • No person may submit more than one entry.
  • The judges reserve the right not to award any prizes and to reject any or all submissions.

Publication and Prizes


  • The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers will award the following prizes: First Place: $1500, Second Place: $1000, Third Place: $500.
  • The first-place winning article will be published in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law.
  • The names of the authors of the second- and third-place winning articles will be mentioned in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law.
  • The author of the first-place winning article will be invited as a guest at the annual CLE program of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law and honored at the Annual Induction Dinner of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.
  • The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers may, at its discretion, include a copy of any or all of the prize-winning manuscripts in an issue of its newsletter and/or on its web site.