National Security Forum
Pursuing the Balance Between Safety and Liberty
William Mitchell College of Law
Questions about the competition can be directed to the competition editor Jacob Campion, jacob.campion@wmitchell.edu.
The William Mitchell Law Review and the William Mitchell National Security Forum are proud to announce the National Security Law Writing Competition and Call for Papers for publication in the William Mitchell Journal of the National Security Forum. The Journal of the National Security Forum was started in 2006 to provide thoughtful discussion of both legal issues and policy concerns related to national security.
Papers will be published along with the opinions of top analysts in the national security field. Past contributors to JNSF include: Robert Chesney, Robert F. Turner, Amos Guiora, Stephen Vladeck, William C. Banks, Gregory E. Maggs, Joseph Margulies, John Yoo, Jordan J. Paust, and Walter F. Mondale. Past speakers include: Mark Bowden, John Rizzo, Neal Katyal, Jane Mayer, and Judge Stephen S. Trott, and James Comey.
The competition is open to all law students currently enrolled at any ABA-accredited law school. Any national security-related legal topic may be explored in a note, case note, or comment format. Participants may submit thoroughly researched papers totaling no more than 15,000 words (inclusive of footnotes), formatted in 12-point Times New Roman font. Footnote citations must comply with the 18th Edition of The Bluebook.
The board of the Journal of the National Security Forum will select one paper for publication.
Competition is open to all students enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school.
Papers must be the author’s sole work and must not be published in any other academic journal. Papers prepared as part of law school class work are eligible.
Papers must be submitted by Midnight, January 15, 2010, via e-mail in Microsoft Word format to jacob.campion@wmitchell.edu.
8½ x 11 inch (letter-size) paper settings must be used.
Papers must have 1-inch margins. The typeface for text and footnotes shall be in 12-point Times New Roman.
Double space text except for indented quotes (50 words or more); single space footnotes for citations (endnotes are not permitted).
Comply with The Bluebook (18th ed.) rules on form and citation, using the rules applicable to law review writing.
Submissions should be no more than 15,000 words (inclusive of footnotes).
Papers may be presented in note, comment, or case note format. If the paper is a case note discussion or thoroughly discusses a pertinent case, the discussed case must have been adjudicated within the past two years.
Papers will be graded on the following criteria, in descending importance:
The winning submission will be published in the May 2010 publication of the William Mitchell Journal of the National Security Forum.