MID-ATLANTIC PEOPLE OF COLOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE (MAPOC) –STUDENT WRITING COMPETITION [DEADLINE: OCTOBER 30, 2015]
The MAPOC: On the Rights of Children, Hosted by American University Washington College of Law, January 28-30, 2016
Our constitutional jurisprudence recognizes children as legal persons, but the rights children possess are ill defined. For example, children have no independent standing to assert rights against those who hurt, endanger, or undermine their emotional, physical, psychological, or spiritual well-being. A child’s may assert a right and seek a remedy against harm only if the state’s agents determine that an adult charged with the child’s protection has violated the statutory framework (itself a recent creation) requiring that adult to protect the child’s best interest and advance the child’s welfare. As such, the history of the law, which has protected children, has been has been a balancing act between constraining parental authority to protect children and recognizing parents’ authority to raise their children as they see fit. Yet, the law still has no clear concept of good-enough parenting. Rather, the law relies on extreme cases in which children have suffered harm, neglect, and death as a basis for determining what is ineffective or bad parenting. The balancing approach, while vital, fails to provide clear answers to a number of significant questions: whether children have a right to associate with both parents; whether children have a right to have their basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education; whether children have a right to be free of all direct and indirect harms; whether children have a right to equal protection as a civil or human right; whether children have a right to be free from all forms of discrimination; or whether children precipitate cruelty, risks, and aggression, including wars and terrorism, on the next generation due to maltreatments and cruelties suffered in their childhood, etc.? This latter question has grave implications for law enforcement policies and practices, civil liberties, national security issues, and international foreign policies and acts of aggression by nations.
Eligibility: MAPOC is currently sponsoring a writing competition open to all currently enrolled law students at any level, i.e., J.D., LL.M., and SJD, at a U.S. law school
Topic: There is a preference of papers related to the conference theme, but we’ll accept papers on other topics – for ex: We encourage paper and panel proposals on a wide range of topics including, but not exclusively encompassing, the following:
- What is a child?
- Child dependency, adoption, and reunification
- Children’s race, gender, class, sexuality and state or national policies
- Universal education, discipline, and the school to prison pipeline
- Juvenile delinquency, due process, and the criminal justice system
- Sex, work, economics, and the exploitation of children
- Children and the impact of geopolitics, terrorism, national security, and war
- Parenting and constructive child-rearing behavior
- Convention on the rights of the child
Awards:
- The winning submission will receive $300 and travel expenses to attend the conference
- The two runner-ups will each receive $100
Submission guidelines: Papers should be between 15,000 and 25,000 words in length
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF LAW – CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION WRITING COMPETITION [DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 9, 2015 BY 11:59 P.M. CENTRAL TIME]
A student writing competition is being organized in conjunction with the annual symposium convened by the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law. This year’s symposium is convened by Prof. Carli Conklin and is entitled “Beyond the FAA: Arbitration Procedure, Practice, and Policy in Historical Perspective.” The symposium features Professor James Oldham, the St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History at Georgetown University Law Center, as keynote speaker as well as expert panelists from England and the United States.
Topic: Submissions should bear some relationship to the history of dispute or conflict resolution, broadly defined. Topics may therefore consider issues relating to the historic development of international or domestic negotiation, mediation, conciliation and/or arbitration, among other things. There is no requirement that papers discuss U.S. law.
Awards: The competition offers a $500 prize to the competition winner and the author of the winning paper may be invited to publish the winning submission in the symposium issue of the Journal of Dispute Resolution, subject to the agreement of both the editors of the Journal of Dispute Resolution and the winning author
Complete details: Available @ law.missouri.edu/faculty/event/2015-csdr-writing-competion/
Contact: Questions may be directed to Professor S.I. Strong
University of Missouri School of Law
@ strongsi@missouri.edu
or @ 573.882.2465
SECURITIES LAW WRITING COMPETITION [DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2015]
Eligibility: Unpublished papers, papers published in any law journal or other publication during calendar year 2015, and papers scheduled for publication in 2015 or 2016 are eligible for submission. Co-authored papers are not eligible.
Topic: Any subject in the field of securities law
Awards:
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $3,000
- 3rd Place: $2,000
- Award winners will be invited to attend ASECA’s Annual Dinner in Washington, DC on February 20, 2015. Travel and lodging expenses for the first place award winner will be reimbursed by ASECA up to $1,000 in actual expenses.
Submission guidelines: All submissions must include (1) author’s name and contact information, including (a) e-mail, (b) postal address, (c) telephone number, (d) law school, and (e) year of anticipated graduation.
For submissions which have been published or are scheduled to be published, the name and date of publication should be included.
- Send to: Mail 2 copies of submissions to: ASECA, P. O. Box 5767, Washington, DC 20016
Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail.
Complete details: Available @ secalumni.org/writing-competition
Contact: Questions may be directed to Mitzi Moore, ASECA Executive Director @ info@secalumni.org
