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The Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation has established a "Warren E. Burger Writing Competition." The competition is designed to encourage outstanding scholarship “promoting the ideals of excellence, civility, ethics and professionalism within the legal profession,” the core mission of the American Inns of Court.
Chief Justice Burger was a lifelong advocate of legal ethics and civility and the “founding father” of the American Inns of Court movement. The American Inns of Court is a national association of judges, lawyers and professors of law and their students who endeavor to maintain the highest standards of the legal profession.
The American Inns of Court invites judges, lawyers, scholars and other authors to participate in the competition by submitting an original, unpublished essay of 10,000 to 25,000 words on a topic of their choice addressing issues of legal excellence, civility, ethics and professionalism.
The winning entry will be decided by a panel of judges comprised of Dean Stephen Gillers of New York University School of Law; Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Professor Nancy J. Moore of Boston University School of Law.
The author of the winning submission will receive a cash prize of $5,000 and the winning essay will be published in a respected legal journal. The Warren E. Burger Prize will be presented to the author at the American Inns of Court annual Celebration of Excellence at the United States Supreme Court. Other submitted works will also be eligible for law journal publication or featured in The Bencher, the national magazine of the American Inns of Court. For information regarding the American Inns of Court please visit their website at www.innsofcourt.org.
To view/download the complete rules of the Warren E. Burger Writing Competition CLICK HERE (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader - click here to download the Acrobat Reader).
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