The Yale Law Journal welcomes submissions for our first Prison Law Writing Contest. If you are or recently have been in jail or prison, we invite you to write a short essay about your experiences with the law. The three top submissions will win cash prizes, and we hope to publish the best work.
Background
The Journal is one of the world’s most respected and widely read scholarly publications about the law. Our authors and readers include law professors and students, practicing attorneys, and judges. The Contest offers people in prison the chance to share their stories with people who shape the law and to explain how the law affects their lives. Where permitted by state law, the authors of the winning essays will receive prizes: $250 for first place, $100 for second place, and $50 for third place.
Topics
Please write an essay addressing one of the following questions:
Please do not discuss your innocence or guilt or ask for legal assistance with your case. Submissions are not confidential. Whatever you write will not be protected by attorney-client privilege. If you have an attorney, please speak with your attorney before submitting your work.
Rules
You may submit an essay if you have been an inmate in a prison or jail at any point from January 1, 2010 through September 30, 2012. We welcome essays of about 1000-5000 words, or roughly 4-20 pages. Please type your submission if possible. If you must write by hand, please be sure your writing is readable. Feel free to work together with others, but your essay should be in your own voice.
Essays must be received by October 1, 2012. Email your submission to YLJprisonlaw@gmail.com if possible. If you do not have email access, please mail your work to: The Yale Law Journal, ATTN: Prison Law, P.O. Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520-8215. Please include your name and the name of the institution where you are or were imprisoned, and tell us the best way to reach you now.[This is a Spanish-language version of the guidelines for the Yale Law Journal Prison Law Writing Contest. An English version can be found here.]
The Yale Law Journal [La revista de derecho de Yale] invita a la presentación de trabajos escritos para la primera edición de nuestro Concurso de Escritura sobre el Derecho de Prisiones. Si usted se encuentra actualmente o ha estado recientemente en la cárcel o la prisión, nosotros lo invitamos a escribir un manuscrito corto sobre sus experiencias con la ley. Las tres mejores presentaciones ganarán premios en efectivo y también esperamos que el mejor trabajo sea publicado.
Historia
La Revista es una de las publicaciones legales y académicas más respetadas, leídas y conocidas mundialmente. Nuestros autores y lectores incluyen profesores y estudiantes de derecho, abogados y jueces. El concurso les ofrece a personas encarceladas la oportunidad de compartir sus historias con individuos quienes les dan forma a las leyes; y también explicarles cómo la ley ha afectado sus vidas. Donde se permite la ley estatal, los autores de las presentaciones ganadoras recibirán los siguientes premios: $250 para el primer lugar, $100 para el segundo lugar y $50 para el tercer lugar.
Temas
Por favor, escriba un ensayo respondiendo a una de las siguientes preguntas:
Por favor, no discuta su inocencia o culpa, o pida asistencia legal sobre su caso. Su trabajo escrito no es confidencial. Lo que usted escriba no será protegido por el privilegio abogado-cliente. Si usted tiene abogado, debe consultarlo antes de presantar su ensayo.
Reglas
Usted podrá presentar un ensayo escrito, si usted ha sido un preso en una prisión o cárcel en cualquier momento entre el 1ero de enero del 2010 hasta el 30 de septiembre del 2012. Nosotros aceptamos ensayos de aproximadamente 1000-5000 palabras, o aproximadamente de 4-20 páginas. Por favor, escriba su presentación a máquina si es posible. Si usted tiene que escribirlo a mano, por favor asegúrese que la letra sea legible. Por favor, siéntase libre de trabajar con otras personas, pero su ensayo deberá estar escrito en su propia voz. Se aceptarán ensayos en el inglés o el español.
Los ensayos serán recibidos hasta el 1ero de Octubre del 2012. Si es posible, por favor envíe su presentación por correo electrónico a YLJprisonlaw@gmail.com. Si usted no tiene acceso a correo eletrónico, envíe su trabajo por correo ordinario a: The Yale Law Journal, ATTN: Prison Law, P.O. Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520-8215. Por favor, incluya su nombre y el nombre de la institución donde usted se encuentra o estuvo preso, y díganos la mejor forma de contactarlo en este momento.
We are pleased to announce the winners of The Yale Law Journal's Prison Law Writing Contest. We received approximately 1,500 responses from people all across the United States. We are grateful to those who shared their experiences, personal reflections, and insight with us. The winning essays will be published in The Yale Law Journal in the spring of 2013.
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (Editor, Vol. 88, 1979) was confirmed as the 111th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States with a Senate vote on August 6, 2009. She becomes the first Hispanic, and third woman, to ever sit on the high court and joins fellow Journal alumnus Samuel Alito (Editor, Vol. 83-84, 1975) and fellow Yale Law School alumnus Clarence Thomas (1974).
The Yale Law Journal is pleased to present its new online platform, The Yale Law Journal Online. YLJ Online will continue the Journal's mission of providing accessible and substantive scholarship through the online medium. It offers original essays on timely and novel legal developments and responses to articles in the print Journal, as well as adapted lectures and audiorecordings/podcasts of featured pieces. When the Journal launched The Pocket Part in 2005, it was the first law review to establish an original online companion; YLJ Online represents the next step in that endeavor.
In conjunction with the release of the new online platform, YLJ Online co-sponsored a conference with the Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic on the Supreme Court's certiorari process. "Important Questions of Federal Law: Assessing the Supreme Court's Case Selection Process" brought together a slate of participants that included Linda Greenhouse, the Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Seth Waxman, and Lyle Denniston at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 2009. The conference's media coverage includes Law.com's article, here.
The launch of YLJ Online's original content section features an essay by Hiro N. Aragaki, addressing the Hall Street v. Mattel litigation and manifest disregard, as well as responses by scholars to Michael Stokes Paulsen's The Constitutional Power To Interpret International Law (118 Yale L.J. 1762 (2009)). In the coming weeks, YLJ Online will present a variety of essays and features on marriage, property, and corporate law, as well as a selection of pieces from Judge Wilkinson and other participants in its Washington, D.C. conference.
The Journal is now accepting submissions for Volume 119. Submissions currently being accepted are Notes and Comments, Book Reviews & Features, and YLJ Online pieces.
Please note that The Yale Law Journal is no longer accepting Article submissions for Volume 119. Please resubmit your work in January 2010 so that Volume 120 may consider it.
On June 22, 2009, Robert C. Post (Note Editor, Vol. 86, 1977) was named Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Post, who has been the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale since 2003, is the seventh alumnus of The Yale Law Journal to become Dean of the Law School. He becomes the sixteenth Dean of Yale Law School, succeeding Harold Hongju Koh, who now serves as Legal Adviser to the U.S. State Department. Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, served as Acting Dean between March and July.
Alumni of The Yale Law Journal currently serve as deans of nearly twenty of the nation's leading law schools, including Harvard (Martha Minow, '79), New York University (Richard Revesz, '83), Columbia (David Schizer, '93), the University of Pennsylvania (Michael Fitts, '79), the University of Virginia (Paul Mahoney, '84), the University of Michigan (Evan Caminker, '86), and Georgetown (T. Alexander Aleinikoff, '77).
If you were unable to attend, podcasts of conference sessions and downloadable papers from the panelists will be made available by Yale Law School's main website. Select papers will also be published by The Yale Law Journal Online.
Information on the conference can also be downloaded by clicking here.
Left: Vicki Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center; Sandy Levinson, University of Texas Law School; Alan Morrison, George Washington University Law School; Carter Phillips, Sidley Austin LLP; Ted Shaw, Columbia Law School; Seth Waxman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP; Moderator: Andrew J. Pincus, Mayer Brown LLP and Yale Law School.
Center: Lisa Blatt; Joshua Civin, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Fred Schauer, University of Virginia Law School; Steve Shapiro, American Civil Liberties Union; Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Moderator: Thomas Merrill, Yale Law School.
Right: Benjamin Taibleson, Jeffrey Lee, Kathleen Claussen, Brantley Webb, Leslie Pope (Yale Law Journal Board, '10) with Linda Greenhouse.
NEW HAVEN, CT – For the seventh year running, The Yale Law Journal has defeated the Harvard Law Review in the annual flag football tournament between the two publications. The Journal scored a decisive 49-21 victory against its Cambridge-based counterpart on the Saturday morning of the Harvard-Yale weekend. Describing the win as a "storied classic," Coach Sam Berger (Projects Editor, '10) was critical in orchestrating the defense of Yale's home field. Quarterback Ben Taibleson (Editor-in-Chief, '10) was supported by an all-star lineup that featured graduating editors Jim Ligtenberg, Jake Kling, Yaw Anim, Theresa Lee, David Morrell, Aaron Zelinsky, and Scott Hartman. Ligtenberg (Executive Editor, '10) repeated an impressive performance that gave the momentum to last year's win at Cambridge.
The Journal will go on to Philadelphia in 2010 to face the Harvard Law Review, Pennsylvania Law Review, and Columbia Law Review at the annual Bluebook Invitational, where it will look to repeat last year's blowout performance against all three opponents.
Above, Yaw Anim (Projects Editor, '10), Ben Taibleson (Editor-in-Chief, '10), and Theresa Lee (Senior Editor, '10) defend the Journal's unassailable record. Click on the images to enlarge.
The Yale Law Journal has been featured in several publications for its role in launching the first-ever online companion for a leading law review (The Pocket Part) in 2005, and its Fall 2009 launch of The Yale Law Journal Online in Washington, D.C. The Journal's editors, including Benjamin Taibleson (Editor-in-Chief, '10) and Jeff Lee (Managing Online Editor, '10) have been quoted in a number of print and online sources, a selection of which appear below. Links will open in a new window.
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