Robert B. Martin, III, a third-year student at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law is the first place winner of the Section's Sixth Annual Student Writing Competition. His article is entitled "Sherman Shorts Out: The Dimming of Antitrust Enforcement in the California Electricity Crisis".

Martin is currently a Senior Articles Editor with the Hastings Law Journal; he externed with Justice Earl Johnson, Jr. of the California Court of Appeal and Justice Ming W. Chin of the California Supreme Court. After graduation, he will serve as a judicial clerk to Judge Carlos T. Bea of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is looking forward to joining the San Francisco office of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP upon completion of his clerkship.

As the top winner in the competition, Mr. Martin will receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. where he will receive his prize during the Section Luncheon, (March 31st) which is held during its Annual Spring Meeting, March 31-April 2, 2004.

The American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law sponsors the student writing competition annually. The competition is designed to encourage law student legal scholarship in the areas of antitrust law, competition policy, consumer protection and international competition law.

Editors-in-chief of law reviews and legal journals nominated student-written papers published in 2003 on a topic of interest to the antitrust bar. This year there were eight submissions for the competition.