The new year brings forth new opportunities. Law students are always on the lookout for new challenges and competitions. In this article Team YLCC brings you latest information on leading essay competitions you can apply for. Read on!
- NLIU BHOPAL SHORT STORY WRITING UNDER ‘E- NYAYAGANGA’ ON NATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY.
Last date of registration – 23 January, 2022 by 2 pm.
Results on – 24 January, 2022 by 6 pm.
Registration fees– No registration fees.
Prize money – First prize – 5000/- INR .
Second prize – 3000/- INR.
Third prize – 2000/- INR.
Certificate to all the participants.
Theme – The importance of Girl Child in society and Nation Building.
Mode of competition – Online.
Eligibility – No criteria for eligibility.
Submissions procedure & guidelines –
- The Story must be in a word file converted to PDF.
- Formatting – Font theme – Times New Roman
Spacing – 1.5
Font size – Heading – 16, Body – 12.
Footnotes – Font size – 10, Spacing – 1.0
- The submitted Short story Copyright will be vested to NLU, Bhopal.
- Maximum words – 1000.
- Language – In all Indian vernacular language including Hindi & English.
- The story must depict the theme it may also related to any issues if patriarchal society, social issues of recent times or of government schemes and polices.
- Selected story will be published on NLU, Bhopal websites.
- Submit your story via this link provided below- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJXdPs6YkjdCclW7PQIdSo0UtzNn27xox7kVsvQ8bGBidXIA/viewform
2. RASHTRIYA RAKSHA UNIVERSITY’S ESSAY COMPETITION.
Last date of registration– 27 January.
Registration fees – Not required .
Prize – RS 15,000/- INR.
Subscription to exclusive legal database.
Certificates of participation.
Theme – Commentary on State practice on the present International law commission Agenda Items.
You can comment on any Nation’s state practice on the following topics-
- Provisional Application of Treaties.
- Protection of Atmosphere.
- Immunity of State Officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction
- Protection of Environment in relation to armed conflict
- Peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens)
- Succession of State in respect to state responsibility.
- General Principals of Law.
- Sea level rise in relation to international law
- Crimes Against Humanity.
- Piracy and Armed Robbery.
Mode of competition – Physical.
Competition Date – 4th February.
Submissions procedure and guidelines –
- Word limit – 3500 words.
- Footnotes must be as per the late OSCOLA edition.
- Entries to be sent to ilc@rru.ac.in, with there name, address, contact details.
3. GLOBAL ESSAY COMPETITION FOR ST.GALLEN SYMPOSIUM.
Last date of registration – 1 February, 2022. 11:59 PM.
Results in – mid March via e-mail.
Prize – Jury will decide three awards based on the quality of the content.
16,28, 894 will be divided among the three awardees.
Eligibility –
• Any field college student can apply who is born in or after 1992 .
You need to provide the following documents-
- Copy of passport or other identification (in English for non Roman languages)
- Confirmation of matriculation/enrolment from your university which proves your enrolment in a graduate/postgraduate level programme as of February 1, 2022 (download sample document here).
- Your contribution file with no indication of your name in the file name, the file metadata or the file itself.
Theme – Collaborative Advantage: What should be written into a new intergenerational contract?
Submissions procedure and guidelines –
- Word limit – 2,100 ( excluding abstracts, bibliography and footnotes).
- Language – Only English.
- Your identification details such as name, e-mail, contact must not be there in the contribution file.
- The idea should be of your own and related to theme and for the contest.
- All the contribution must be citied and the file will go through a plagiarism check.
- Must be doc, docx or PDF format.
- The best competitors will be given a chance to present there content on a big stage through a video and they will be informed before.
For further details click on the link below-
4. NATIONAL ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION BY ANAND LAW COLLEGE
Last date of registration – February 15th, 2022.
Registration fees – 100/-.
Bank Name: Bank of Baroda
Account Holder Name: Anand Law College
Account No.: 02940100001292
IFSC Code: BARBOANANDX [Fifth Character is Zero]
(Please mention the subject as “Essay Writing” while making the payment)
Prize – 1st Prize: Trophy & Certificate of Merit
2nd Prize: Trophy & Certificate of Merit
3rd Prize: Trophy & Certificate of Merit
An E- Certificate of participation will be issued to all the participants
Eligibility – For all law students.
Mode of competition – Online.
Theme –
• Juveniles should be treated and tried as adults.
• Violent video games should be banned.
• Animal testing should be prohibited.
Submission procedure and guidelines-
- Plagiarism up to 20% is acceptable.
- Original work of the participants.
- The essay must deal with the current issues in this field and analytical in nature.
- Word limit – 1000-1200 words.
- Language – only English.
- File format – docx .
- Font – Times New Roman.
- Font size – 12
- Line spacing – 1.5.
- File name – title of the essay.
- Submit via e-mail- collegeamp@gmail.com , Subject – Essay writing Submission.
- These details are to be submitted in separately in word –
- Topic Chosen
- Title of the Essay
- Name of the Author
- College/Institute/University of Author
- Programme Enrolled & Year of Study of Author
- E-mail address & Contact No. of Author.
- The payment receipt and registration form should be attached with it.
- ALLIANCE CENTRE FOR ALTERNATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ACADR) ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION.
Last date of registration– 15 April, 2022.
Results on – 15th March, 2022.
Last Submission Date – 30th April, 2022.
Registration fees– No fees.
Registration link https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=ZXera4fDDU2b539WeSUVlCTQLhc0HyZOhlPi7fx6vJpUMlUzOVY3QkdSTlUzSllZT1pYNlNJTzJFVS4u
Prize – Five best essays will be published ACDR Newsletter.
Top ten best submissions shall also be awarded merit certificates by ACADR, Alliance School of Law, Alliance University, Bangalore.
Eligibility – All law students.
Mode of competition – Online.
Theme – Impact of Judicial Intervention in the Field of ADR is a Boon or a Bane.
Submission procedure and guidelines-
- Co-authorship of entries (maximum two) among individuals.
- Essay should be original, unpublished, and non-plagiarized.
- Word limit: 1000-1200 words.
- Citation style: Uniform style of citation should be followed throughout the essay.
- File name – Name of the Author(s) .
- File format – Microsoft Word format.
- submissions via email to acadr@alliance.edu.in
YLCC would like to thank Aarushi Tiwari for her valuable contribution in this article.
