2008-2009 Law Student Writing Competition
The American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section is pleased to announce the winners of its second 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 32,000 members, consisting of plaintiffs' attorneys, defense attorneys, insurance and corporate counsel, and law students. The goal of this competition is 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 Melissa King St. John’s University School of Law $1,500 cash, plus free round-trip airfare, and weekend hotel accommodations to attend the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. 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: Recouping Costs for Repairing “Broken Windows”: The Use of Public Nuisance by Cities to Hold Banks Liable for the Costs of Mass Foreclosures Click here to read the essay.... |
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Congratulations to our Second Place Winner Trina Ruhland University Of Colorado The second-place winner received $500 cash and an honorable mention in The Brief. The second place essay was titled: Judicial Redundancy and Pre-Empting Tort Claims with Federal Regulation Click here to read the essay.... |
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And Hannah Weiner Duke University School of Law The third-place winners will receive an honorable mention in The Brief. The third place essay was titled: Attribution Theory and the American Tort System Click here to read the essay.... |
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