The Jamie Grodsky Environmental Scholarship Prize
The GW Environmental and Energy Law program invites entries for the 2012 Jamie Grodsky Prize for Environmental Law Scholarship. The Prize was established to honor Professor Grodsky's legacy of leading edge environmental scholarship by encouraging students to produce papers on important environmental issues.
The prize of $5,000 will be awarded for the best paper written by a GW Law J.D., LL.M., or J.S.D. student in the field of environmental law. To receive the prize, a paper must be of publishable quality and make a significant contribution to the theory or practice of environmental law.
The determination of whether a paper falls within the category of environmental law will be within the discretion of the competition jury, but the term is intended to be liberally interpreted to include scholarship in the fields of pollution control, natural resources, sustainable development, smart growth, agriculture, energy, land use, and animal law.
Papers eligible for the competition include student law journal notes/articles, LL.M. theses, independent writing projects, and other original papers. Paper may have been submitted for credit at GW Law and may reflect discussions with faculty members, student law review editors, or both. The version of the article submitted for judging, however, may not be the product of significant editorial changes by a person or persons other than the student author. Most of the work on the paper must be done during the time the author has been a student at GW Law.
Papers must be submitted no later than January 16, 2012, and must have been written in the 12 months prior to the submission deadline. The winner will be selected by a jury consisting of at least one GW Law faculty member, a faculty member from another law school, and a GW Law alumnus.
Criteria for selecting the winner include originality, innovation, depth of scholarship, the importance of the environmental issue addressed, and the quality of writing and analysis. In its sole discretion, the committee may decide that no paper merits the award in a particular year.
Papers should be between 30 and 75 double-spaced pages in length. Papers must be submitted to the Records Office no later than 5 pm on January 16, 2012. No entry may be published prior to the date it is submitted for the competition.
The Jamie Grodsky Prize will be awarded each year at an awards ceremony held in connection with the Law School's annual J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Conference. The winning paper will be published in the GW Journal of Energy and Environmental Law, or another GW Law journal if for any reason the Journal of Energy and Environmental Law does not. Students who enter the competition must provide written permission to GW Law to print their paper in a GW publication should they be awarded the prize.
Read Renee Martin-Nagle's, winner of the 2011 Jamie Grodsky Prize, featured article in The Journal of Energy and Environmental Law.