ESSAY CONTEST: NAPPERT PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION [DEADLINE: APR. 30, 2016]
Thanks to the generosity of Sophie Nappert (BCL’86, LLB’86), the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration will be awarded for the second time in 2016 after an enormously successful inaugurual competition in 2014. The Nappert Competition is open to all students, junior scholars and junior practitioners from around the world.
Eligibility: Authors must be either currently enrolled in a B.C.L, LL.B., J.D., LL.M., D.C.L., or Ph.D. program (or their local equivalents). Those who are no longer in school must have taken their most recent degree within the last 3 years, or have been admitted to the bar (or the local equivalent) for no more than 3 years (whichever is later).
Topic: The essay must relate to commercial or investment arbitration
Awards:
- First place: Can. $4,000
- Second place: Can. $2,000
- Third place: Can. $1,000
Winning one of the awards will also carry with it the presentation of the paper at a symposium to be held at McGill in autumn 2016 (the expenses of the winners for attending the symposium will be covered). The precise date of the symposium will be fixed in the coming months. The best oralist will receive an award of Can. $1,000.
Submission guidelines: The essay (1) must be unpublished (not yet submitted for publication) as of Apr. 30; (2) must be a maximum of 15, 000 words (including footnotes); (3) can be written in English or in French; (4) should use OSCOLA or some other well-established legal citation guide (e.g. McGill Red Book; Bluebook); and (5) must be in MS Word format.
- Send to: Submissions are to be emailed to Ms. Camille Marceau, Marceau@mail.mcgill.ca as an attached file
- *Submissions should be accompanied by (1) a statement affirming the author’s eligibility for the competition, (2) confirmation that the work is original to the author, and (3) confirmation of the unpublished status of the paper.
Complete details: Available @ mcgill.ca/law/channels/news/essay-contest-nappert-prize-international-arbitration-257820
Contact: For more information, kindly email Ms. Camille Marceau @ camille.marceau@mail.mcgill.ca, or Professor Andrea Bjorklund @ andrea.bjorklund@mcgill.ca, Faculty of Law, McGill University
2016 HOGAN/SMOGER ACCESS TO JUSTICE ESSAY COMPETITION [DEADLINE: APR. 30, 2016 BY 11:59 P.M.]
Topic: Class Actions and Environmental Law: As courts and legislators have made it more difficult to bring effective class actions, can class actions continue to advance environmental objectives and hold polluters accountable?
Essays may focus on these or other related questions:
- How do evolving standards of “commonality” affect environmental class actions?
- How might major environmental problems that we are facing be amenable to class treatment?
- How would these actions be brought? What damage recoveries and other results may be sought?
Awards: $5,000 and complimentary 2016 Public Citizen membership
Submission guidelines: (1) Submissions must be emailed as Microsoft Word documents; (2) they may be full-length law review articles or shorter academic essays; (3) the word count may be between 6,000 – 25,000 words, not including footnotes; (4) essays should use footnotes (not endnotes)
- Send to: Amanda Fleming @ afleming@citizen.org
Complete details: Available @ citizen.org/law-school-contest