Ninth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition
The
Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American
Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Cengage
Learning, announces the Ninth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay
Competition. The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen, late
Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School.
The competition is
designed to encourage scholarship and to acquaint students with the
AALL and law librarianship, and is open to students currently enrolled
in accredited graduate programs in library science, law, history, and
related fields. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history,
rare law books, or legal archives. The winner will receive a $500.00
prize from Cengage Learning and up to $1,000 for expenses to attend the
AALL Annual Meeting.
Winning and runner-up entries will be
invited to submit their entries to Unbound, the official journal of
LH&RB. Past winning essays have gone on to be accepted by journals
such as N.Y.U. Law Review, American Journal of Legal History, University
of South Florida Law Review, William & Mary Journal of Women and
the Law, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, and French Historical
Review.
The entry form and instructions are available at the LH&RB website: http://www.aallnet.org/sections/lhrb/awards Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m., April 17, 2017 (EDT).
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