The Labor Lawyer ’s annual student writing competition is open to students at all ABA-accredited law schools. Papers may be written on any topic in the fi eld of labor and employment law and will be reviewed by the staff of The Labor Lawyer . A $500 prize will be awarded to the winning paper, which will be published in The Labor Lawyer .

Papers must not exceed forty double-spaced pages (including double-spaced endnotes). Papers must follow the format detailed in the editorial guidelines on page ii.

Papers must be postmarked by the submission deadline: August 31, 2008

Send all papers to:

Professor Robert J. Rabin, Editor
The Labor Lawyer , Syracuse University College of Law
E.I. White Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244-1030

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS: The Labor Lawyer welcomes contributions from all interested persons. Articles should be submitted to Professor Robert J. Rabin, Editor, The Labor Lawyer, Syracuse University College of Law, E.I. White Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244-1030; phone: 315/443-3681; fax: 315/443-4141. In general, articles should be informal and direct. Footnotes should be confined to useful documentation. Only one double-spaced copy should be submitted.

In preparing both text and footnotes, authors should refer to the following works for style: The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.) (Harvard Law Review Association, Cambridge, Mass.) and, for matters of literary style not covered by this manual, The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed.) (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.) or The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., and E. B. White (3d ed.). Absent appropriate disclosure in connection with the article submission,

The Labor Lawyer will rely on the author’s belief that the article’s subject matter has not been preempted.