AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW WRITING COMPETITION [DEADLINE: JAN. 29, 2016 BY 6 P.M. EST]
Eligibility: The competition is open to students enrolled in J.D. programs at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada as of the competition deadline. Editors of the American Indian Law Review are not eligible to compete.
Topic: Papers will be accepted on any issue concerning American Indian law or indigenous peoples. However, topics recently published in the American Indian Law Review will not be favored.
- Standards: Papers will be judged on the basis of originality and timeliness of topic, knowledge and use of applicable legal principles, proper and articulate analysis of the issues, use of authorities and extent of research, logic and reasoning in analysis, ingenuity and ability to argue by analogy, clarity and organization, correctness of format and citations, grammar and writing style, and strength and logic of conclusions.
Awards:
- First place: $1,000 and publication in the American Indian Law Review, an official periodical of the University of Oklahoma College of Law with international distribution.
- Second place: $500
- Third place: $250Each of the three winning authors will also be awarded an eBook copy of Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, provided by LexisNexis, and will be recognized on the masthead of the American Indian Law Review.
Submission guidelines: (1) Minimum of 20 double-spaced pages / maximum of 50 double-spaced pages excluding footnotes or endnotes; (2) all citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed.); (3) the body of the email must contain the author’s name, social security number, school, expected year of graduation, current address, permanent address, and email address. Inquiries may be replied to by email. (4) No identifying marks (name, school, etc.) should appear on the paper itself; (5) all entries must have only one author; (6) entries must be unpublished, not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, and not currently entered in other writing competitions; (7) papers entered in the American Indian Law Review writing competition may not be submitted for consideration to any other publication until such time as winning entrants are announced; and (8) any entries not fully in accord with required form will be ineligible for consideration.
- Send to: Submissions may be emailed (preferred method) to the American Indian Law Review @ mwaters@ou.edu. Entries may be sent as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or PDF documents.
Hardcopies are acceptable mailed to: AILR Writing Competition, American Indian Law Review, 300 Timberdell Road, Norman, OK 73019. Please send an email to mwaters@ou.edu on or before the deadline to notify the AILR that you are sending a hardcopy submission.
Entries will be acknowledged upon receipt. All entries become the property of the American Indian Law Review.
Complete details: Available @ law.ou.edu/content/writing-competition
Contact:
Email: marcelo.pendleton@gmail.com
Phone numbers: 405.325.2840 and 405.325.5191
Fax: 405.325.6282
