American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Employee Benefits Writing Competition
Papers written by law school students may be entered in the 20th annual American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC®) Employee Benefits Writing Competition between February 1, 2024 and June 1, 2024. ACEBC® will recognize up to two winning papers with cash awards of $2,500 each. ACEBC® will also pay travel and lodging expenses to the winning authors to attend the ACEBC® annual meeting in Washington D.C. on September 14, 2024. The primary purposes of the writing competition are to encourage legal scholarship in areas of concern or interest in the employee benefits field and to foster interest in promising students in the practice of employee benefits law.
If you are in a law school career development office, please post a copy of this announcement on your student bulletin boards, whether virtual or physical; on your website where students can access the information; and in any other prominent place where students gather. Please also forward this email to any full-time or adjunct professors teaching employee benefits law, tax law, or labor and employment law at your law school, or who might otherwise be in a position to identify students who might be interested in entering a paper in the writing competition.
We encourage any interested law school student, including LLM or SJD candidates, to submit a paper on a legal topic of the student's choice in the employee benefits field. Please check the ACEBC® website for additional information, including a list of winning papers over the years, at ACEBC Employee Benefits Writing Competition for Law Students | ACEBC or you may direct specific questions to Frances King Quick at fquick@maynardnexsen.com with a copy to sstewart@maynardnexsen.com. Past writing competitions have received papers from students at schools across the nation. Last year's winners were from NYU School of Law and the University of Akron School of Law.
The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to elevating the standards and advancing the public's understanding of the practice of employee benefits law. In pursuit of these goals, the ACEBC® encourages the study and development of employee benefits laws, initiates professional discussions of significant employee benefits issues, and sponsors this writing competition, a moot court competition, and topical continuing legal education programs.