ANNOUNCEMENT FOR – The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law Annual Law Student Writing Competition for 2024

The ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law and The College of Labor and
Employment Lawyers are pleased to announce their 2024 writing competition. This competition is open
to articles written while the author is an active student at an accredited law school in the United
States. Authors may not have graduated from law school prior to December 1, 2023. Graduate
students in law school (LLM candidates) are not eligible.
Prizes are as follows: First Place: $3000; Second Place: $1000, and Third Place: $500. The
first-place winning article may be selected for publication in the ABA Journal of Labor &
Employment Law. In addition, the author of the first-place paper will be a guest at the ABA Annual
Section of Labor and Employment Law Conference and honored at the Annual Induction Dinner of the
College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. The College and the Section reserve the right not to
select any article for publication or award any prizes if, in their judgment, the submissions do
not meet their standards for outstanding legal writing.
Complete rules are attached and should be read in their entirety.
Competition rules can also be found on the College website at
http://www.laborandemploymentcollege.org.