{"id":5262,"date":"2011-01-18T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2011-01-18T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:24:35","slug":"5262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2011\/01\/18\/5262\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Hogan\/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Contest<\/strong> is a $5,000 cash award given to the author of the winning essay.\u00a0 The 2011 topic is: <strong><em>\u00a0The Gulf Oil Spill: Who Are The Victims and How Do They Get Compensated?\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Any student currently enrolled in an accredited American law school may submit a legal essay for the competition.\u00a0 Essays can only be written during the academic year covered by the competition and may not be prepared as part of paid legal work outside of law school.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">INTENT-TO-ENTER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:\u00a0 JANUARY 31, 2011<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">ESSAY CONTEST DEADLINE:\u00a0 MARCH 31, 2011<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><strong>After 40 remarkable years, the Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest has changed to the Hogan\/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Contest.\u00a0 <\/strong>If you are not familiar with the previous contest, it was established in 1970 by the prominent environmental lawyer, the late Roscoe B. Hogan of Birmingham, Alabama, and served to provide law students the opportunity to investigate and offer solutions to the multitude of injustices inflicted on the environment.\u00a0 With additional support from noted attorney and former Public Justice Foundation President Gerson Smoger, the contest was renamed and has a broader scale: it now focuses on whether and how the courts can be used to obtain justice in all areas, including for injuries to the environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The competition will be judged by a panel of nationally known trial lawyers and law professors. \u00a0Information about the rules and criteria are posted on the Public Justice website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicjustice.net\/What-We-Do\/Awards\/Law-School-Essay-Contest.aspx\">www.publicjustice.net\/What-We-Do\/Awards\/Law-School-Essay-Contest.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Public Justice Foundation is a non-profit membership organization of over 3,000 attorneys, law students and others supporting the national public interest law firm Public Justice, P.C.\u00a0 For more information about this\u00a0organization, visit their\u00a0web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicjustice.net\">www.publicjustice.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hogan\/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Contest is a $5,000 cash award given to the author of the winning essay.\u00a0 The 2011 topic is: \u00a0The Gulf Oil Spill: Who Are The Victims and How Do They Get Compensated?\u00a0 Any student currently enrolled in an accredited American law school may submit a legal essay for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2011\/01\/18\/5262\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"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":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-competition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","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\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5266,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}