Month: October 2021

This year’s American Indian Law Review national writing competition is now welcoming papers from students at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada.  Papers will be accepted on any legal issue specifically concerning American Indians or other indigenous peoples.  Three cash prizes will be awarded: $1,500 for first place, $750 for second place, and $400 for third place.  Each of the three winning authors will also be awarded an eBook copy of Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, provided by LexisNexis.

The deadline for entries is Monday, February 28, 2022, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma College of Law, the American Indian Law Review has proudly served Native and legal communities since 1973.  Each year at this time we encourage law students nationwide to participate in this, the longest-running competition of its kind.  Papers will be judged by a panel of Indian law scholars and by the editors of the Review.

For further information on eligibility, entry requirements, and judging criteria, see the attached PDF rules sheet or the AILR writing competition website at http://www.ailr.net/writecomp.

The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America welcomes applications to its second annual Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference, to be held February 24-26, 2022. The conference is open to individuals who have accepted a 2022-2023 federal clerkship (district court or court of appeals) or a 2022-2023 state appellate court clerkship. The 2022 conference is currently planned to take place in person on our campus.

CSL will provide funding towards travel and accommodations.

Over the course of the conference, conferees will receive opinion writing instruction from some of our nation’s most distinguished members of the judiciary. They will also be guided through writing an appellate court opinion and will receive individual review and commentary on their work by our faculty, all judges or former judicial clerks themselves. Finally, each attendee will be eligible for the CSL Prize in Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing.

The currently scheduled faculty for the event (subject to addition and change) includes the following:

Judge Kyle Duncan, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Joseph Leeson, U.S. District Court for the E.D. Pennsylvania
Judge Paul Matey, Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Edward Meyers, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Judge Chad Readler, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Eleni M. Roumel, United States Court of Federal Claims
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Conferees will be limited to twenty-five. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance until the limit of conferees is reached. Applications must be received no later than January 21, 2022. 

Details, including application information, can be found at the conference website:https://law.edu/academics/Conferences/judicial-writing/2022_Judicial_Clerkship_Opinion_Writing_Conference/index.html

Direct all questions about the conference to Professor A.G. Harmon, Faculty Director of Bench and Bar Programs, at harmon@law.edu.

The Department of Student Conduct and Community Standards is offering a unique leadership opportunity for interested graduate/professional-level students to serve on the University Hearing Board.

The University Hearing Board is utilized when a student has been charged with a violation of the Code of Student Conduct at the University of Akron and the student does not feel that the charge(s) is/are warranted, or chooses not to accept responsibility for the alleged behavior(s). In these cases, the University Hearing Board is activated in order to reach a resolution.

• The University Hearing Board is comprised of five members; including faculty, staff and students and it is convened to:
• Provide all parties an opportunity to share what happened from their perspectives,
• Develop questions for students and witnesses involved to understand the incident and fact pattern,
• Deliberate to determine outcome of case, once all information has been heard.

This leadership opportunity is an outstanding addition to your academic curriculum and resume by strengthening the skills you possess in listening, problem solving, questioning/interviewing others, and the critical analysis of information.

The Department of Student Conduct is in need of highly motivated students, like you!

Download the application at www.uakron.edu/studentconduct **Application is titled – University Hearing Board Student Application Form

Questions or completed applications should be emailed to dnovak@uakron.edu or delivered to the Department of Student Conduct and Community Standards located in Simmons Hall Rm. 302. If you have questions, please contact us at 330-972-6380.

*All applications will be evaluated upon receipt and interviews scheduled for successful candidates.