The Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the Ninth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen, late Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, a leading scholar in legal research, rare books, and historical bibliography.
Essays may be submitted on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The winner will receive a $500.00 prize from Cengage Learning and up to $1,000 for expenses to attend the AALL Annual Meeting.
The purpose of the competition is to encourage scholarship in the areas of legal history, rare law books, and legal archives, and acquaint student with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and law librarianship.
The purpose of the competition is to encourage scholarship in the areas of legal history, rare law books, and legal archives, and acquaint student with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and law librarianship.
Winning and runner-up entries will be invited to submit their entries to Unbound, the official journal of LH&RB. Past winning essays have gone on to be accepted by journals such as N.Y.U. Law Review, American Journal of Legal History, University of South Florida Law Review, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, and French Historical Review.
The entry form and instructions are available online at the AALL website: www.aallnet.org/
Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m., April 16, 2018 (EDT).
