{"id":72415,"date":"2024-04-08T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/?p=72415"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:59:42","slug":"legal-writing-scholarship-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/legal-writing-scholarship-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Writing Scholarship Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Mercer University School of Law and the American Bar Association Commission on Disability Right co-host an annual brief writing competition in honor of Mercer&#8217;s former legal writing professor, Adam Milani.<br> <br>The purposes of the competition are to promote greater interest in and understanding of the field of disability law and to encourage excellent legal writing skills in law students. The deadline is June 14, 2024 (the website will be updated soon with the correct date). <br> <br>Prizes range between $100 and $500, depending on whether multiple awards are given.<br><br>Briefs can be on any of the following topics:<br>\u2022 Disability law;<br>\u2022 The Civil Rights Act of 1964;<br>\u2022 Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972;<br>\u2022 Age Discrimination in Employment Act;<br>\u2022 Family and Medical Leave Act;<br>\u2022 A state statute or municipal ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.<br> <br>Further information is posted on the Mercer website (the date in this email is correct, it has not yet been changed on the website) at <a href=\"https:\/\/law.mercer.edu\/academics\/legal-writing\/milani-writing-competition\/\">Milani Writing Competition &#8211; School of Law (mercer.edu)<\/a> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne (she\/her)<br>Professor of Law<br>Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives<br>Mercer University School of Law<br>1021 Georgia Avenue<br>Macon, GA 31207<br>478-301-2647<br>painter-thorne_sd@law.mercer.edu<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercer University School of Law and the American Bar Association Commission on Disability Right co-host an annual brief writing competition in honor of Mercer&#8217;s former legal writing professor, Adam Milani. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[520,623,726],"class_list":["post-72415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff","category-students","tag-ada","tag-career-professional-development","tag-diversity-and-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72420,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72415\/revisions\/72420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/docket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}