Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Awards

Through the generosity of Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, a $2,500 stipend will be provided for the best student paper on an international law topic submitted for the Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Awards, with a stipend of $1,000 for the second-best student paper.

Papers must be submitted no later than midnight on April 15th to be considered for this year’s award competition. Students must send submissions electronically (Word format) to Ronna Craig (ronnac@lclark.edu).

The guidelines for the award competition are as follows:

1. To be eligible to enter the competition, the author must be or have been a Lewis & Clark JD student at the time the paper was written.

2. Entries are limited to original and substantial research papers written in the past year on any topic in private or public international law or comparing the laws of nations. The phrase “written in the past year” includes any paper written during the current academic year or any paper written during the prior academic year that was not finalized until after the prior year’s competition deadline. A paper is not eligible if it was submitted to the competition in a prior year, even if it has been revised since then.
3. The papers must be typed, double-spaced, with at least one-inch margins. Each submission must include a cover page setting forth (1) the student’s name, (2) the title of the paper, and (3) the name of the Lewis & Clark professor who supervised the paper, if any. The student’s name should not appear on any other page of the document, to assist in maintaining anonymity.
4. The paper will be evaluated and judged by a selection committee consisting of faculty members and/or members of the sponsoring law firm. The decision of the selection committee will be final and non-reviewable.
5. In selecting the winning papers, the committee will consider whether the papers are of publishable quality, with emphasis on the subject matter, organization, writing quality, depth of research, and originality.
6. The judges will have a final decision prior to commencement. If a prize recipient publishes a winning paper, the recipient should acknowledge in the published paper that the paper received a Lewis & Clark Law School Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Award.