Law Students and Professionals:
Paralyzed Veterans of America's
2009-2010 Legal Writing Competition
is Now Open for Entries

Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans) is pleased to announce its sixth annual legal writing competition. The nationwide contest is designed to encourage debate within the current and next generation of the legal profession on public policy issues affecting today’s veterans.

Entries should address the topic:

Adjudication within the Department of Veterans Affairs: Judicial Independence, Quality Control, Consumer Perception and the Paradoxes Present in the VA’s System of Administrative Adjudication

Paralyzed Veterans of America hosts this contest in the hopes of encouraging vigorous discussion of veterans issues.  Entrants may choose any result and should feel free to offer well-supported praise, criticism, or suggestions.

Entrants may wish to consider information available from the VA’s web site, the Court’s web site, and, of course, cases decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The competition is open to all law students enrolled in ABA-accredited law schools, for entry in the law student division, as well as law school graduates and law professors for entry in the professional division.  Prizes of $3,000.00 each will be awarded in two divisions, law student and professional.  The prizes will be awarded to the entries deemed by the judges to be the best in each division.  In addition, the winners will receive assistance from Paralyzed Veterans in publishing the paper in appropriate professional publications and/or presenting the paper at appropriate professional association gatherings.

Submissions must be received no later than June 1, 2010.

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