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BTLJ is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Student Writing Competition.
Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to all participants for your submissions!
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2012 Writing Competition Winners
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Spring 2012 Writing Competition
The Berkeley Technology Law Journal is soliciting entries for our annual student writing competition.
1st Prize: $2,000 & Publication in the Fall 2012 Issue of BTLJ
2nd Prize: $750
3rd Prize: $500
Aldo J. Test Award for Best Berkeley Law Submission: $1000
Topics: We will accept submissions on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of law and technology, including but not limited to: intellectual property, antitrust, First Amendment, entertainment and new media, telecommunications, biotechnology, internet, and cybercrime.
Deadline: Submissions must be received by 5pm PST on February 24, 2012.
The competition is open to all J.D. candidates.
Each student may submit only one entry.
Submitted papers must be unpublished. Papers must be no more than 50 pages long, including footnotes. Do NOT use endnotes. Margins should be 1?, minimum. Body text must be double-spaced. Font must be Times New Roman or a similar serif font, and 12 point. Footnotes may be 10 pt and single-spaced but there should be a space between notes. Citations must conform to the 19th Ed. of The Bluebook. Submissions are judged anonymously, so the authors name should not appear anywhere on the paper.
To submit electronically, please send the completed cover sheet and a copy of your paper in .doc format, not pdf. Submissions MUST include a signed cover sheet that may be downloaded from the Journal website.
Submit an electronic copy of your (1) paper and (2) cover sheet to:
btljwritingcompetition@gmail.com
Winners will be notified and final results will appear on the Journal’s website in late spring. Due to the large number of entries, the Journal cannot contact other entrants.
*To be eligible for publication, the winning article must meet the Journal’s publication standards.*
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2011 Writing Competition Winners
BTLJ is proud to announce the winners of the BTLJ Spring 2011 Writing Competition. Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to all participants for your submissions!
- 1st Place: Noam Kutler, “Protecting Your Online You: A New Approach to Handling Your Online Persona After Death” (George Washington University Law School)
- 2nd Place: J. Mason Kjar, “2 Standards 1 Cup: How Geotargeting Will End the Battle Between National and Local Obscenity Standards” (University of Utah Law School)
- 3rd Place: Andrea Stein, “Right of Publicity: Is Behavioral Targeting Violating the Right to Control Your Identity Online?” (John Marshall Law School)
- Aldo J. Test Award for Best Berkeley Law Submission: Krista Correa, “All Your Face Are Belong to Us: Protecting Celebrity Images in Hyper-Realistic Video Games”
Information about the Spring 2012 Writing Competition will be posted in the fall. Please email btljwritingcompetition@gmail.com if you have any questions.
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2010 Writing Competition Winners
The results for the Spring 2010 Writing Competition are in!
- 1st place: Damon Andrews, The University of Iowa College of Law, 2011
Iqbal-ing Seagate: Plausibility Pleading of Willful Patent Infringement - 2nd place and the Aldo J. Test Award for Best Berkeley Submission:
Jie Zhou, UC Berkeley School of Law, 2010
Coase, Copyright, and YouTube: An Economic Analysis of the Burden to Monitor for Online Infringement - 3rd place: Krysta Kauble, UCLA Law, 2011
Patenting Everything Under the Sun: Invoking The First Amendment To Limit The Use of Gene Patents
Information about the Spring 2011 Writing Competition will be posted in the fall. Please email if you have any questions.
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Spring 2010 Writing Competition Rules
UPDATE: The winners for the Spring 2010 competition have been announced. The below rules are solely for reference.
1st Prize: $2,000 & Publication in the Fall 2010 Issue of BTLJ
2nd Prize: $750
3rd Prize: $500
Aldo J. Test Award for Best Berkeley Law Submission: $1000
Topics: We will accept submissions on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of law and technology, including but not limited to: intellectual property, antitrust, First Amendment, entertainment and new media, telecommunications, biotechnology, internet, and cybercrime.
Deadline: Submissions must be received by 5pm PST on Feb. 26, 2010.
The competition is open to all J.D. candidates.
Each student may submit only one entry.
Submitted papers must be unpublished. Papers must be no more than 50 pages long, including footnotes. Do NOT use endnotes. Margins should be 1″, minimum. Body text must be double-spaced. Font must be Times New Roman or a similar serif font, and 12 point. Footnotes may be 10 pt and single-spaced but there should be a space between notes. Citations must conform to the 18th Ed. of The Bluebook. Submissions are judged anonymously, so the authors name should not appear anywhere on the paper.
To submit electronically, please send the completed cover sheet and a copy of your paper to . Submissions MUST include a signed cover sheet that may be downloaded from the Journal website.
Winners will be notified and final results will appear on the Journal’s website in late spring. Due to the large number of entries, the Journal cannot contact other entrants.
Submit an electronic copy of your (1) paper and (2) cover sheet to:
*To be eligible for publication, the winning article must meet the Journal’s publication standards.*
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Spring 2013 Writing Competition Rules
1st Prize: $2,000 & Publication in the Fall 2013 Issue of BTLJ
2nd Prize: $750
3rd Prize: $500
Aldo J. Test Award for Best Berkeley Law Submission
Topics: We will accept submissions on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of law and technology, including but not limited to: intellectual property, antitrust, First Amendment, entertainment and new media, telecommunications, biotechnology, internet, and cybercrime.
Deadline: Submissions must be received by 5pm PST on March 1, 2013.
The competition is open to all J.D. candidates.
Each student may submit only one entry.
Submitted papers must be unpublished. Papers must be no more than 50 pages long, including footnotes. Do NOT use endnotes. Margins should be 1″, minimum. Body text must be double-spaced. Font must be Times New Roman or a similar serif font, and 12 point. Footnotes may be 10 pt and single-spaced but there should be a space between notes. Citations must conform to the 19th Ed. of The Bluebook. Submissions are judged anonymously, so the authors name should not appear anywhere on the paper.
To submit electronically, please send the completed cover sheet and a copy of your paper to btljwritingcompetition@gmail.com. Submissions MUST include a signed cover sheet that may be downloaded from the Journal website.
Winners will be notified and final results will appear on the Journal’s website in late spring. Due to the large number of entries, the Journal cannot contact other entrants.
Submit an electronic copy of your (1) paper and (2) cover sheet to:
*To be eligible for publication, the winning article must meet the Journal’s publication standards.*