Manupatra Annual Essay Competition 2009

Scarce few in the legal community need to be reminded of the significance that Manupatra has attained till date as the provider of invaluable service including but not confined to a comprehensive repository of legal information, case-laws and assorted matters. Since 2004, Manupatra has become involved in organizing a much-acclaimed Annual Essay Competition for law students with an aim to encourage and promote creative thinking and knowledge of legal understanding and research amongst the student community. The time has now come for the sixth consecutive version of this competition, which seeks to reproduce and even improve upon the considerable success of the fifth version that had seen participation from over 1100 students from 140 different colleges in 2008. Apart from cash prizes worth Rs 100,000/-, Manupatra also compiles the best entries received in course of the competition in a publication titled Anthology D’essai.
Following is the list of topics for the 2009 Annual Essay Competition:
1. Maintaining Confidentiality/Trade Secrets and Related Employment Issues in a Migratory Workforce
2. Holding Search Engines Liable – Opening a New Front in the War against Copyright Infringement
3. Is Judicial intervention in Arbitration justified
4. Do we need Gender Biased Laws: Domestic Violence Act
5. Legalizing Abortion in India
6. Right of Negative Voting

The economic incentives include lucrative prizes such as the following:
1st Prize: Rs 20,000/-
2nd Prize: Rs 15,000/-
3rd Prize: Rs 10,000/-
4th Prize: Rs 7,500/-
5th Prize: Rs 5,000/-
Prize for Best Essay from First Year student’s batch: Rs 10,000/-
There will also be an award for the university from which the winning entry comes as well for the university from which the maximum entries are received. Certificates will be given to all participants.
The jury panel for the competition will include renowned names such as Ms Prathiba Singh, the managing partner of Singh and Singh Associates, Ms Jaishree Jaisinghani Vyavaharkar, an associate from the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, London and Sajan Poovayya, the Chairman of FICCI and the partner of Poovayya and Co.
Any full-time law student in any degree college/ law school in India /Srilanka/ Pakistan/Bangladesh is eligible to participate in the competition, for which the deadline for submission is 31st August 2009. The medium of essay must be ENGLISH.
The essay must be typewritten and double spaced on A4 sized white paper with numbered pages. It must be a maximum of 3000 words [excluding foot notes] and must be accompanied by an abstract containing the title and the word count of the essay as well as a brief synopsis thereof.
Entries have to be sent at:
Email: [email protected]
Post: Essay Competition, Manupatra , B-37 Sector 1, NOIDA, 201301, U.P
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