{"id":41215,"date":"2017-01-13T11:34:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=41215"},"modified":"2017-01-13T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:34:31","slug":"lsac-diversity-committee-writing-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/01\/13\/lsac-diversity-committee-writing-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"LSAC Diversity Committee Writing Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Law School Admission Council&#8217;s Diversity Committee is offering a writing competition on &#8220;Why pipeline programs targeting students from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds are essential to the future of the legal profession.&#8221; All current law students are eligible, and there are categories based on law-school status (1L, 2L, 3L\/4L). Essays may be up to 20 pages (5000 words or less). One winning paper will be selected from each of the three categories, and each winner will receive a $5,000 cash prize and publication on discoverlaw.org. One overall winning paper will be submitted for publication in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Legal Education<\/em> (or similar publication). The deadline is 5:00 p.m. EST on March 31, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Additional rules and formatting procedures are available here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2017\/01\/LSAC-Writing-Competition-Memo-2017.pdf\">LSAC Writing Competition Memo 2017<\/a>. For questions, please contact Kent Lollis at <a href=\"mailto:klollis@lsac.org\">klollis@lsac.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law School Admission Council&#8217;s Diversity Committee is offering a writing competition on &#8220;Why pipeline programs targeting students from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds are essential to the future of the legal profession.&#8221; All current law students are eligible, and there are categories based on law-school status (1L, 2L, 3L\/4L). Essays may be up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/01\/13\/lsac-diversity-committee-writing-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LSAC Diversity Committee Writing Competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215\/revisions\/41223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}