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ESSAY CONTEST 

The Public Justice Foundation has acquired the Roscoe Hogan Environmental Essay Contest from the Roscoe Pound Institute.  The Public Justice Foundation is a non-profit membership organization of over 3000 attorneys and others supporting the national public interest law firm Public Justice, P.C.

Below is information about next year’s contest.  If you have ay questions, please contact Cassandra Goings at (202) 797-8600 or cgoings@publicjustice.net.

The Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest is a $5,000 cash award given to the author of the winning essay.  The 2009 topic is Pollution Preemption: Federal Preemption of State Tort Law and Environmental Protection.  Any student currently enrolled in an accredited American law school may submit a legal essay for the competition.  Essays can only be written during the academic year covered by the competition and may not be prepared as part of paid legal work outside of law school.

INTENT-T0-ENTER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 30,2009

ESSAY CONTEST DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2009 

The competition will be judged by a panel of nationally known trial lawyers and law professors.

For more information and application materials, please visit: http://www.publicjustice.net/Essay%20Contest/essaycontest.htm

Submitted by UW Law School Newsletter Admin on November 12, 2008

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