To find legal writing competitions that align with your interests, check out the Legal Writing Competition Blog. Bookmark it and check back often.
Why would you want to bother with a writing competition? Particularly in a slugging economy, there are tons of good reasons. Here are just a few:
1. Having a paper of publishable quality on your resume demonstrates the kind of self-starting motivation that employers are looking for.
2. You have to do the Advanced Writing Requirement anyway. Why not get maximum bang for your AWR buck? Choose a topic for your AWR that interests you, then choose a professor who also has an interest in that area to supervise you, then submit it to the writing contest. Boom! You get AWR credit, independent research credit, cash prizes, and the chance to get a publication as a law student.
3. The writing prize itself is something to list on your resume that indicates that you compete well against others.
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