THE COMPETITION
The American Bankruptcy Institute ("ABI") is pleased to invite students to participate in its Fourth Annual ABI Bankruptcy Law Student Writing Competition. First, Second and Third Place prizes will be awarded. This is a great opportunity for the students, and we ask all law school professors receiving this notice to let their students know about it.
WRITING TOPIC
We invite papers on current issues regarding bankruptcy jurisdiction, bankruptcy litigation, or evidence in bankruptcy cases or proceedings. The paper may address business or consumer cases and may include matters such as bankruptcy sales, plan confirmation and other topics that involve jurisdiction, litigation or evidence in the bankruptcy courts.
DATES OF COMPETITION
Papers will be accepted immediately through March 1, 2012, with all papers due to be submitted consistent with the rules by no later than March 1, 2012. Papers need to have been written since the close of last year's competition (anytime after March 1, 2011). We encourage those professors teaching bankruptcy law classes during the Fall Semester to let students know about the competition, so that they can prepare papers in the Fall classes for submission in this competition. Our hope is that this Competition will dovetail nicely with any legal writing or advanced bankruptcy course so that students can satisfy one of the writing requirements for the course while creating an entry for the Competition.)
COMPETITION AWARDS
Winners of the Competition will be announced in April, 2012. Winners will be presented with certificates from the ABI recognizing their achievement and law schools will be notified so that this achievement can be noted in students' records.
- First Place writer will receive a prize of $2,000 cash, plus publication of the paper in the prestigious ABI Journal, and a one (1) year membership to the ABI.
- Second Place winner will receive a cash prize of $1250, plus publication of the paper in one of ABI's Committee Newsletters, and a one (1) year membership to the ABI.
- Third Place winner will receive a cash prize of $750, plus publication of the paper in one of ABI's Committee Newsletters, and a one (1) year membership to the ABI.
COMPETITION RULES
Papers must be 10-12 double-spaced pages (including footnotes) on 8.5 x 11" paper with 1" margins. Papers must be written in 12 point, Times New Roman font. Papers must otherwise comply with the Guidelines for submissions to the ABI Journal found at
http://www.abiworld.org/journalguidelines provided, however, that the papers must have numbered pages. Papers will be submitted by students uploading the papers in PDF format to the ABI's website at the following URL on or before March 1, 2012:
http://papers.abi.org.
- Papers submitted must be in PDF form with a '.pdf' extension.
- Maximum size allowed is 2MB.
- Maximum number of pages allowed is 12.
- Papers must have been written after March 1, 2011.
- Only one paper may be submitted per student. If a mistake was made, please create a new account to submit the paper.
- Contest winners will be contacted by email.
- Winners must agree to have their papers edited by ABI staff and leaders prior to publication.
For more information, please contact
papers@abiworld.org.
