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YLJ’s Sixth Annual Student Essay Competition

The Yale Law Journal’s Sixth Annual Student Essay Competition is open to all current law students and recent law school graduates nationwide and up to three winners will be awarded $300. This year’s competition topic is Law and the Changing Environment. The deadline for submissions is September 9, 2022.

For more information on eligibility and submission guidelines and this year’s topic, visit https://www.yalelawjournal.org/news/announcing-the-sixth-annual-student-essay-competition .

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Akanbi Wins Yale Law Journal Essay Competition

Akanbi’s winning essay explores the shifting conceptualization of labor in the digital age.

By Toni Walker

Doctoral Candidate Opeyemi Akanbi has been announced as one of two winners of the Yale Law Journal ’s first ever Student and Recent Graduate Essay Competition.

Open to law students and recent law graduates nationwide, the competition encourages legal scholars to examine and interpret developing legal challenges. This year’s competition specifically targeted burgeoning issues at the intersection of law and technology, including but not limited to: surveillance, cybersecurity, digital speech, artificial intelligence, and privacy.

Akanbi’s essay, “Policing Work Boundaries on the Cloud,” explores the shifting conceptualization of labor in the digital age due to increased use of cloud computing software. Akanbi examines how applications like Slack, Workplace, and Teams – which blur the boundaries of work by eliminating space and time constraints – can be reconciled with current labor laws that are based on a separation between work and nonwork.

Currently a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School, Akanbi is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Benjamin Cardozo School of Law and is a member of the New York bar. She studies media policy issues like net neutrality and the use of digital media technologies in the context of labor and privacy. She has been a fellow with the Consortium on Media Policy Studies and a guest scholar at the Aspen Institute Conference on Communications Policy.

As a winner of the essay competition, Akanbi’s paper will be published in the Yale Law Journal Forum , and she will receive a monetary prize.

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Announcing the Seventh Annual Yale Law Journal Student Essay Competition

The  Yale Law Journal  is excited to announce its seventh annual Student Essay Competition. The  Journal ’s Student Essay Competition challenges the next generation of legal scholars and practitioners to reflect on emerging legal problems. The Competition is open to current law students and recent law-school graduates nationwide. Up to three winners will be awarded a $300 cash prize. Winning submissions will be published in the  Yale Law Journal Forum , the  Journal ’s online component. All  Forum  Essays are fully searchable and available on LexisNexis, Westlaw, and our website. Last year’s winning Essays can be viewed on our website.

Competition Topic: Emerging Issues in Law and the Family

This year, we invite submissions focusing on novel developments in the law as a result of shifting social norms, public policy, and legal developments concerning the family, broadly understood. We encourage submissions on a range of topics, including family law; children and the Constitution; immigration law’s effect on families; parental rights in education; sexual orientation and gender identity; abortion, childbirth and family planning; elder law; domestic violence, and policy proposals that bear on the family. We welcome topics in related areas as well, and we hope to receive both clinical and academic submissions.

Eligibility and Submission Details

The competition is open to all current law students and recent law school graduates (JDs and LLMs from the Classes of 2019-2026) from any ABA-accredited law school. Each individual may submit only one piece. Submissions must be previously unpublished Essays and may not be submitted to other publications during the competition period.

The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2023 at 5pm ET. Submissions must be no shorter than 4,000 words and no longer than 8,000 words, including footnotes.

To review more details and eligibility requirements, please visit the Journal’s website .

Ninth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition

The Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the Ninth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition . The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen , late Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School.

The competition is designed to encourage scholarship and to acquaint students with the AALL and law librarianship, and is open to students currently enrolled in accredited graduate programs in library science, law, history, and related fields. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The winner will receive a $500.00 prize from Cengage Learning and up to $1,000 for expenses to attend the AALL Annual Meeting , scheduled for July 15-18, 2017, in Austin, Texas.

Winning and runner-up entries will be invited to submit their entries to Unbound , the official journal of LH&RB. Past winning essays have gone on to be accepted by journals such as N.Y.U. Law Review , American Journal of Legal History , University of South Florida Law Review , Willi am & Mary Journal of Women and the Law , Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities , and French Historical Review .

The entry form and instructions are available at the LH&RB website: http://www.aallnet.org/sections/lhrb/awards . Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m., April 17, 2017 (EDT).

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Zachary New ('19) Wins Yale Law Journal’s Immigration-Focused Student Essay Competition

The  Yale Law Journal  announced this month that Zachary New ('19) is one of two winners of its annual student essay competition, focused this year on emerging issues in immigration law. The winning essays by New and the University of Miami’s Elizabeth Montana will be published in the  Yale Law Journal Forum  in early 2020.

New’s essay, Ending Citizenship for Service in Forever War , analyzes the recent policies that are causing a decline in U.S. citizenship for service, a tradition dating back to the Revolutionary War in which noncitizens earn their citizenship after serving in the U.S. military.

New works at the Denver office of Joseph & Hall, P.C., where he focuses on corporate immigration and federal litigation.

While at Colorado Law, New was a founding member and president of the Immigration Law and Policy Society, through which he worked to bring immigration issues and advocacy opportunities to the newest generation of lawyers. He spent a year volunteering for the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network and frequently visited Denver’s local ICE detention center to assist detained individuals. New simultaneously worked out of Colorado Law’s Criminal/Immigration Defense Clinic to give free representation to individuals in ICE custody.

Together with Associate Professor and Director of Colorado Law’s Immigration and Citizenship Program Ming H. Chen , New coauthored an article, “ Silence and the Second Wall ,” which was published this year in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal .

New has worked on the representation of clients at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and various Federal courts, both at the district court and appellate levels.

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Student Essay Competition at Yale Law Journal

April 28 , 2022 April 28, 2022

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YLJ hosts an annual Student Essay Competition open to current law students and recent law school graduates. This year, the topic is  Law and the Changing Environment , broadly construed. The submissions deadline is September 9.

• Topic : We encourage submissions on a range of topics, including climate change; energy law; environmental justice; agency environmental regulation; migration and refugees; land use; local government; infrastructure and transportation; Indigenous rights; financial regulation; animal law; and legislation and policy proposals involving the environment. We welcome topics in related areas as well, and we hope to receive both clinical and academic submissions.
• Eligibility : The competition is open to JDs and LLMs from the Classes of 2018-2025 from any ABA-accredited law school. 
• Submission Criteria : Essays must be between 4,000 and 8,000 words, including footnotes. Each individual may submit only one Essay. Essays must be previously unpublished and may not be submitted to other law reviews during the competition period.
• Submission Deadline : September 9, 2022.
• Prize : Up to three winners will receive a $300 cash prize. Winning Essays will be published in the  Yale Law Journal   Forum  and accessible on our website, LexisNexis, and Westlaw.

More details on the Competition, including submission instructions, are available  here .