Stan Wheeler Mentorship Awards
Law and Society Association
Award: $500
To provide the students whose nominated papers best represent outstanding law and society research. Qualifications: Applicants must be member of the Law and Society community who is regarded by applicants peers and students as an outstanding mentor for graduate, professional, or undergraduate students working on issues of law and society. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on the committee's criteria. How to apply: Applicants must be submit online application form; no instructor may nominate more than two student papers for the award; only one single-authored work by the same author in a given year will be accepted; two works by the same author will be accepted if one or both works are jointly authored; the paper must have been submitted within the two calendar years prior to the awards ceremony by a matriculated undergraduate student at any U.S. or non-U.S. institution of higher education including two-year community colleges; in submitting the paper for award consideration, the nominator must include the date and title of the course for which the paper was written; translations from other languages into English are welcome; the paper must be double-spaced; may not exceed 18,000 words in length, including notes and references; and must be in a minimum of 12 point font; OPTIONAL - Nominators can include a letter of support describing the merits of the student paper they are submitting; all supporting documents must be submitted in English and be in DOC, RTF, or PDF format. Focus: Law.