Marquette University is organising the National Sports Law Student Writing Competition. The goal of the National Sports Law Student Writing Competition is to encourage law student scholarship on current topics in sports law.
Any law student in good standing who is currently attending an accredited law school within the United States and its territories may enter the competition.
The winner of the writing award receives an invitation to attend the National Sports Law Institute’s annual conference (to be held next on Friday, October 12th, 2018) at no cost, and an offer to publish in an issue of the Marquette Sports Law Review.
Eligibility:
Any law student in good standing who is currently attending an accredited law school within the United States and its territories may enter the competition. All submissions must be original and unpublished student work that has been produced after January 1, 2018.
Such works could be papers written for a law school course or unpublished student comments written as a membership requirement for a law journal or review.
Submissions to this competition cannot be submitted to any other competition (this includes any past competitions as well), and cannot be submitted for publication consideration to any publication until the review process is complete for this competition.
Submission Details:
- Submissions to the 2018 competition can focus on any sports law related topic. However, the best submissions will include a focus on a specific, timely, and novel legal issue impacting the sports industry.
- Submissions must follow the Marquette Sports Law Review’s Guidelines for Authors found online here. In general, a submission should be at least 20 and no more than 40 pages long. All submissions must follow the citation format provided in the 20th edition of the Harvard Citator. In addition,
The author’s name should not appear within the submission,
Do not include a title page, instead, the title of the submission should only appear at the top of the first page of the submission, and
Submissions will only be accepted if produced in Microsoft Word. Do not send a PDF.
- The National Sports Law Institute will verify that your submission has been accepted by email within 10 days of submission.
- All submissions to the 2018 competition must be received by May 31, 2018 i.e. Thursday
- Submit your article to the 2018 competition on the web form by clicking here.
Deadline:
May 31; Thursday
Contact:
Please send all questions to the National Sports Law Institute by email to munsli@marquette.edu, subject line “2018 National Sports Law Student Writing Competition.”
