Submission deadline: January 9, 2015
Entrant Criteria:
- Author of the paper must be a student enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school’s J.D. program at the time of submission (submissions for the 2014-2015 Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest will be accepted starting on August 1, 2014).
- A student need not be a member of the Business Law Section to enter the contest.
Submission Criteria:
- Papers must be written in 2013-2014 or the current academic year.
- The paper may be specifically prepared for this contest; submitted in a class, seminar, or as an independent study; or a proposed law review/journal note, comment or article.
- Papers submitted are normally 20-30 pages long, but in any event should not exceed 100 pages of double-spaced typed text, including footnotes.
- Papers that have been submitted to or published by a student publication are acceptable for submission to the contest. The submission entry form must indicate to which publications the work has been submitted and if it has been published.
See website for more information: http://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/initiatives_awards/mendes_hershman.html