Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association and Foundation
Award: $500
To encourage and recognize outstanding law student scholarship on the legal issues affecting LGBTQ+ persons. Qualifications: Applicants must be undergraduate, law, and other graduate students. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on editorial board. How to apply: Applicants must submitted electronically in word format, not as a pdf; must be written in 12-point, standard times new roman font, both the text of the article and all footnotes; article text must be double-spaced; footnotes are to be single-spaced; all footnotes must be listed in Arabic numbers (i.e., 1, 2, 3, etc.), and not Roman numerals (i.e., i,ii, iii, etc.); articles must be submitted with footnotes only, not with endnotes; also refrain from including appendices or supplemental materials; all margins must be one inch; every proposition, fact, quotation, or piece of data in the text must be cited to the appropriate authority; all assertions must be cited; plagiarism is absolutely unacceptable-obviously; format of all citations must adhere to the most recent edition of the bluebook; MLA, APA, and other non-legal styles of citation are not permitted; the bluebook instructs to italicize, we prefer that applicant underline (e.g., say supra instead of supra); in the event applicant article is selected for publication, this makes it more helpful for us during the editing process; all submissions must contain no grammatical, punctuation, or citation errors; also submit a separate cover page which includes: applicants name, school and graduation year, permanent address, telephone number and email address, statement indicating that a preemption check has been completed on or before the date of applicant submission. Focus: Law.