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There’s Still Time!: Writing Competitions on US Human Rights-related Topics

By humanrightsathome

Two upcoming writing competitions address topics under the broad human rights rubric.

The Hogan/Smoger Access to Justice writing competition is administered by Public Citizen.  The deadline for submitting a 6000-25,000 word, footnoted essay is April 28 and the topic this year is “What Does the Trump Presidency Mean  for Access to Justice?”  The competition is open to all law students and LLM students.  More information is here.  For ideas about a treatment of this topic from a human rights perspective, see the Shadow Report (2013) prepared by the Columbia Human Rights Clinic and others on access to counsel in civil cases and human rights concerns.

The Selma Moidel Smith competition, sponsored by the National Association of Women Lawyers, focuses on “as issue concerning women’s rights or women’s status in the law.”  The deadline for submitting the essay, which can be up to 15 pages, is May 1.  More information is available here.   There are many possible US human rights-related topics, but might we suggest something on Cities for CEDAW?