Topics
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.
Eligibility
The competition is open to students
enrolled at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada as of the
competition deadline of Jan. 31, 2013. Editors of the American Indian Law
Review are not eligible to compete.
Awards
The
first place winner receives $1,000 and publication in the American Indian
Law Review, an official periodical of the University of Oklahoma College of
Law with international distribution. The second place winner receives $500 and
third place receives $250.
The three winning authors will be recognized
on the masthead of the American Indian Law Review and will receive
copies of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, provided by LEXIS.
Deadline
Electronic entries must be received no
later than 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
on Jan. 31, 2013. Hardcopy entries must be postmarked on or before that
date. Entries will be acknowledged upon receipt. All entries become the property
of the American Indian Law
Review.
Judges
Papers will be judged by members
of the legal profession with an interest in American Indian law and by the
editors of the American Indian Law Review.
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.
Form
Entries must be a minimum of 20 pages in length
and a maximum of 50 pages in length excluding endnotes. All citations should
conform to the Bluebook. 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. No identifying marks (name, school, etc.) should appear on the
paper itself. All entries must have only one author, be previously unpublished
and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. 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. Any entries not fully in accord with required form will be ineligible
for consideration.
Submission
Submissions may be
emailed to the American Indian Law Review at mwaters@ou.edu by the competition deadline.
Entries may be sent as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or PDF documents. Although
email submissions are preferred, hardcopies are acceptable. Hardcopy submissions
must be postmarked by the deadline date. If submitting a hardcopy entry, mail
it to AILR Writing Competition, American Indian Law Review, 300
Timberdell Road, Norman, OK 73019. Please send an email to mwaters@ou.edu by the deadline to notify the
AILR that you are sending a hardcopy submission.
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