Month: October 2020

The first MAX® scholarship drawing is coming up quickly on November 1!  Sign in/Register for MAX Online – your free, personal finance program specifically designed for law school students and take advantage of the many program activities throughout the school year. You can earn entries into their $330,000 annual scholarships (cumulative total for 1L, 2L, and 3L classes) by:

• Completing the MAX Lessons for your year in school (lessons are short – about 10-15 minutes each)
• Attending MAX online workshops/events
• Completing your class year survey

You earn one entry for every activity you complete. If you complete all eight lessons for your class year, your class year’s survey and any two workshops, you will receive ten (10) additional scholarship entries – a total of 21! All lessons/activities completed by October 31 will earn you entries in the November 1 drawing and the other two drawings this academic year.

If you win the November drawing, it does not eliminate your entries from the grand prize drawing in April.

I am confident you will find the MAX program valuable and would love to see YOU be a MAX® scholarship winner!

Are you the best class at Akron Law? Participate in our weekly challenges and attend events to earn points to put the other classes to shame. Stay tuned for the first challenge this week!

The Akron Law Federalist Society is hosting former Congressman, Bob Barr, and Akron Law Professor, Martin Belsky, for a debate on the changing discussion surrounding guns & the 2nd Amendment in the United States today. This subject is both timely and important given recent events where individuals have exercised their Second Amendment rights while protesting in public. We hope that you will log on and join us for an engaging discussion.

Please join the meeting with this link:

https://bit.ly/3iRM7Ay

Or manually enter the following meeting info at: http://uakron.webex.com:

Session number: 120 348 5831 
Session password: ZippyLaw 

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The Akron Law Federalist Society is hosting former Congressman, Bob Barr, and Akron Law Professor, Martin Belsky, for a debate on the changing discussion surrounding guns & the 2nd Amendment in the United States today. This subject is both timely and important given recent events where individuals have exercised their Second Amendment rights while protesting in public. We hope that you will log on and join us for an engaging discussion.

Please join the meeting with this link:

https://bit.ly/3iRM7Ay

Or manually enter the following meeting info at: http://uakron.webex.com:

Session number: 120 348 5831 
Session password: ZippyLaw 

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The International Section of the New York State Bar Association is pleased to announce the annual Albert S. Pergam International Law Writing Competition! The deadline for submission is 4:00 p.m. EST on Friday, November 6, 2020.

The International Section is comprised of approximately 1800 members of the New York State Bar Association (both American and foreign lawyers) who practice, or have an interest in, public and private international law. The writing competition, which began in 1988, fosters legal scholarship among law students in the field of international law. The competition is intended to encourage students of law to write on areas of public or private international law. It is the International Section’s belief that by providing a forum for students to disseminate their ideas and articles, the professional and academic communities are enriched. Furthermore, the competition presents an opportunity for students to submit law review quality articles to the Section for possible publication in one of its publications (i.e., New York International Law Review).

Law Students (including J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. and S.J.D. candidates) are cordially invited to submit to the International Section an article concerning any area of public or private international law or practice. Faculty members of any college or university are ineligible to participate. All submissions will be reviewed by a committee of attorneys practicing international law, and a winner will be chosen based on a variety of factors, including significance and timeliness of the subject matter, thoroughness of research and analysis, clarity of writing style, as well as the importance and originality of the topic to the understanding of private/public international law or comparative law.

The winner will receive:

1) $2,000 USD; and

2) Publication of the article (subject to editorial approval) in the New York International Law Review.

The rules are set forth in our website: https://nysba.org/awards-competitions/international-section-albert-s-pergam-international-law-writing-competition-award/

Good luck. We look forward to receiving your submission!