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  1. Writing Competition

    The Harvard Law Review is composed of second- and third-year law students who are selected via a six-day writing competition at the end of each academic year.The Review strongly encourages all students to participate in the writing competition, which consists of two parts:. Subcite: this portion, worth 50% of the competition score, requires students to perform a technical and substantive edit ...

  2. Harvard Undergraduate Law Review

    In the Fall 2023 issue of the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review, our writers take a deep-dive into some of the most pressing legal issues in a series of short and long-form pieces. ... Harvard Undergraduate Law Review invites high school students from anywhere in the world to participate in its yearly essay contest. The theme for the Fall 2023 ...

  3. Fall 2022 Contest

    Fall 2022 Essay Contest. Who we are. Started in 2006, the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review is a student-run organization at Harvard College dedicated to providing undergraduates with an opportunity to learn about the field of law and the career options it provides. It aims to support students interested in pursuing law after college and to ...

  4. Fall 2022 Winners

    2022 Essay Contest Theme. The theme for the HULR's Fall 2022 Essay Contest is "Keeping up with the Times." In recent decades, governments and the law have been criticized for failing to adapt to a world that is changing much faster than them. How can a relatively static institution like the law keep up with an ever-changing world?

  5. PDF WRITING COMPETITION INTRODUCTION AND TIPS

    CASE COMMENT SUGGESTED FORMAT STATE SUPREME COURT CASE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS CASE ¶ 1 Write a few sentences of background to the case and your argument. Then write: "Recently, in [insert case name], the [state name] Supreme Court [insert holding]." Then write: "Recently, in [insert case name], the [insert circuit number] Circuit [insert holding

  6. HIR Academic Writing Contest

    The Contest. Inspired by our growing high school readership around the world, we have run the Harvard International Review Academic Writing Contest since 2020 to encourage and highlight outstanding high school writing on topics related to international affairs.

  7. Spring 2024 Essay Contest Prompt: Human Rights in Practice

    Qualifications: The essay contest is open to all current students at Harvard University, including undergraduate and graduate students. Length Limitations: Submissions should be approximately 1,000-2,000 words, including footnotes. Citation Format: All assertions should be cited. Please cite sources using footnotes rather than endnotes.

  8. Harvard Law Review essay competition won by Shore Student from Sydney

    The Harvard Law Review essay contest has been opened for the first time to foreign students. And the winner is a young student from Paddington. How a year 10 student from Sydney won the Harvard ...

  9. Harvard Undergraduate Law Review's Post

    Congratulation to our Fall 2023 Essay Contest Winners! 1st place: Maya Otchere-Boateng - Maya is a high school junior at Archer High School in Georgia. 2nd place: Darrell Pui - Darrell is a high ...

  10. Fall 2021 Winners

    Harvard Undergraduate Law Review. Home Issues Spring 2024 Fall 2023 Spring 2023 Fall 2022 Spring 2022 ... The theme for the HULR's Fall 2021 Essay Contest is "Law in a Politicized World." The question of whether law is an impassive, apolitical device of judgement and justice has persisted throughout American history. ...

  11. The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition

    The Harvard Crimson Global Essay Competition provides a platform for young, ambitious high school students to exercise their writing skills and compete with students from all over the world! This competition encourages students to challenge themselves and explore different writing styles to ultimately strengthen their writing skills.

  12. Publishing in Law Reviews and Journals

    The Harvard Law School subsidizes Scholastica journal submissions for current students with publishable academic work. ... Make Law Review distills crucial information about the law review process into a single resource, so students can focus on writing an impressive audition essay. With tips, strategies, and real-world advice from those who've ...

  13. Essay Contest: Winter 2022

    Winter 2022 Essay Contest Prompt. Submissions should be essays written about a topic rooted in human rights and another field or discipline. Successful submissions will introduce a novel approach to their topics, will use the perspective or tools of a non-legal discipline, and will have a strong nexus to human rights law.

  14. Essay Contest

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  15. Essay Contest: Winter 2021

    Beyond the Headlines: Underrepresented Topics in Human Rights. For the Winter 2021 Essay Contest, the Harvard Human Rights Journal asked student authors from across Harvard University to think "beyond the headlines" and highlight issues in human rights that are not heavily featured in mainstream media. We received a variety of excellent submissions and selected two winning pieces, along ...

  16. Submissions

    The Harvard Law Review and Harvard Law Review Forum welcome submissions of Articles, Essays, and proposals for Book Reviews through our electronic submission system. Submit Now. ... Essays (Print/Forum): 12,000-17,500 words. Responses (Forum): 8,000 words (typically solicited but proposals welcome).

  17. Writing Prizes

    Writing Prizes. Each year the Law School awards several prizes for the best papers written by Harvard Law School students in particular areas of the law. Graduating prize winners are noted in the Commencement Program during the year of their graduation and prize-winning papers are eligible to be published in the School's public paper series.

  18. Essay Contest

    HIEE C 202 3-2024 HIEEC 2023-2024 is now closed. The 2023-2024 Harvard International Economics Essay Contest is sponsored by the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association (HUEA). This essay competition is open to high school studen ts of any year and is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrat e an accom plished level of writing and understanding of economic the ory.

  19. Fall 2020 Essay Contest Winners

    2020 Essay Contest Theme. The theme for the HULR writing competition is "A House Divided." "Although this term was first coined by former President Abraham Lincoln back in 1858, the 21st century United States is still an extremely divided nation. This theme encompasses all spheres of division -- politics, race, socioeconomics, gender.

  20. Harvard Law Review

    About the Harvard Law Review. Founded in 1887, the Harvard Law Review is a student-run journal of legal scholarship. The Review is independent from the Harvard Law School and a board of student editors selected through an anonymous annual writing competition make all editorial decisions. The print Review and its online companion, the Forum, are ...

  21. Enter the Harvard Salient's Essay Contest

    Entries are due by April 8. More information about the contest, including a submission link, can be found here. Alexander Hughes, a student at Harvard University, is a former National Review ...

  22. Join

    We are excited to announce the Harvard Undergraduate Law Reveiw's Fall 2023 High School Essay Contest! The theme for the HULR's Fall 2023 Essay Contest is "The Right to Life." Click below for further information about the contest.