American Indian Law Review 2013-2014 Writing Competition

American Indian Law Review 2013-2014 Writing Competition Rules

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 in J.D. or graduate law programs at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada as of the competition deadline of Jan. 31, 2014.  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

The third place winner 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 LexisNexis.

Deadline

All electronic entries must be received no later than 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on January 31, 2014.  Any hardcopy entries must be postmarked by 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 double-spaced pages in length and a maximum of 50 double-spaced pages in length excluding footnotes or endnotes.  All citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed.).  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. Entries must be unpublished, not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, and not currently entered in other writing competitions.  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, hard-copies are acceptable.  If submitting hard-copies, mail them to:

AILR Writing Competition

American Indian Law Review

300 Timberdell Road

Norman, OK 73019

Please send an email to mwaters@ou.edu on or before the deadline to notify the AILR that you are sending a hard-copy submission.