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2007-2008
Law Student Writing Competition
The
American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
is pleased to announce the winners of its first annual law student writing competition.
The Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section is one of the oldest and
largest entities within the American Bar Association with approximately
25,000 members, consisting of plaintiffs' attorneys, defense attorneys,
insurance and corporate counsel, and law students. The goal of the
competition was to encourage and reward scholarly writings on legal subjects
within the scope of the Section and of general and current interest.
Numerous entries were received, which were all
impressive in their own right. The taskforce members graded each paper anonymously,
without knowing the students' name or their law school affiliation. The papers were judged
on the following five criteria:
- Relevance to TIPS substantive legal area(s)
- Clarity of legal analysis
- Organization, attention to detail, citation form
- How contemporary the issue is
- Whether the paper would be a good candidate for publication in the TIPS Law Journal
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Congratulations to our First Place Winner
Sarah R. Anchors Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
$1,500 cash, plus free round-trip airfare, and weekend hotel accommodations to attend the ABA
Annual Meeting in New York. The first-place winner’s essay will be considered for publication in the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Law
Journal, and may appear in an upcoming issue. The first-place winner will be announced in an upcoming issue of
The Brief, the Section’s magazine.
The winning essay was titled: Mass Market Fraud Theory: Dispensing With Individual Reliance in Class Actions
Where Plaintiffs Allege Pervasive Misrepresentations to the Public
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Congratulations to our Second Place Winner
Sybil Dunlop Vanderbilt Law School
The second-place winner received $500 cash and an honorable mention in The Brief.
The second place essay was titled: Are an Empty Head and A Pure Heart Enough?
Mens REA Standards for Judge-Imposed Rule 11 Sanctions and Their Effects on Attorney Action
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Congratulations to our Third Place Winner,
Rebecca F. Emerson Temple University Beasley School of Law
The third-place winners will receive an honorable mention in The Brief.
The third place essay was titled: The Risks and Rewards of Corporate Blogging
Click below to read the essay....
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