The Sports Lawyers Association is proud to announce that the 4th Annual Law Student Writing Competition is now accepting submissions.
Theme: Current Issues in Sports Law
Deadline for Submission: March 15, 2016
Submit Papersto: sla@sportslaw.org
Winning Authors to Receive:
$5,000 will be awarded for first place selection and submission will be published in the Sports Lawyers Journal (subject to SLA's editorial standards)
$3,000 awarded for second place selection
$2,000 awarded for third place selection
All three finalists will receive a complimentary registration for the 2016 SLA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, May 12-14, at JW Marriott Los Angeles LA Live (recipients recognized and order of awards presented at the SLA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles). Winners need not be present at the announcement.
Winners are solely responsible for taxes on their prize winnings and must provide a social security number for tax reporting purposes.
Criteria and Submission Instruction
Choose a current issue in Sports Law and Advocate a position.
Each entry is limited to 3,000 words maximum, not including title
of reasonable length (footnotes and references included).
Must be submitted in Microsoft Word or equivalent Google Documents file format, via email to sla@sportslaw.org, with subject line "SLA Writing Competition".
Each entrant must be a current law student enrolled at an
ABA accredited law School, US resident 18 years of age or older, and member in good standing of the Sports Lawyers Association. LLM candidates are not eligible.
Paper(s) must be received by March 15, 2016,
at 5 pm Pacific time (no exceptions).
Entrant warrants that the submitted entry is original and unpublished.
Co-authorship of a manuscript is not permitted in the contest.
Each author may submit only one entry.
Previous winners and/or finalists are ineligible.
The entries will be judged anonymously by members of the SLA Writing Competition Committee. Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
Creativity
and clarity of the submission
Organization
Quality of the analysis and research, including supporting references
Grammar, syntax, and form that support a scholarly submission
All decisions of the judges are final. On or before April 22, 2016, the top three finalists will be notified by email and/or telephone and will be offered a free registration to the SLA 2016 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.
Consent For Release
The writing competition is open to current law student
members of the Sports Lawyers Association aged 18 or older who reside in the United States of America. By submitting an entry, each entrant warrants that his or her entry is original and unpublished, and grants to the Sports Lawyers Association an
irrevocable license to reproduce and publish the entry in any medium, as well as an irrevocable license to use the entrant's name, likeness, and other personal information (hometown, law school attended, class year, etc.) in any medium, for the purpose of promoting the writing competition and/or the SLA.
