{"id":2518,"date":"2025-01-13T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/?page_id=2518"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:01:57","slug":"spring-2025-essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/online\/essay-contests\/spring-2025-essay-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2025 Essay Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring 2025 Essay Contest\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

Submissions should be essays about a topic broadly connected to human rights. Successful submissions will introduce a novel approach or perspective to their topics and will have a strong nexus to human rights law.<\/p>\n

Submissions Window: January 15, 2025 \u2013 February 1, 2025. Submissions received outside this window will not be considered.<\/p>\n

Winners will be announced in the Spring of 2025 and published in the Online Journal<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Submission Guidelines:<\/b><\/h4>\n

Qualifications<\/i>: The essay contest is open to all current students at Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n

Length Limitations<\/i>:<\/i> Submissions should be no longer than 3,500 words, including footnotes.<\/p>\n

Citation Format<\/i>:<\/i> All assertions should be cited. Please cite sources using footnotes rather than endnotes, ensuring compliance with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Submission Instructions<\/i>: Participants should send their submission, as an attachment in Microsoft Word format, from an official Harvard email address to the HHRJ Submissions Committee (submissions.hhrj@mail.law.harvard.edu<\/b>), along with a copy of a recent CV. The subject line of the email should include \u201cEssay Contest Submission\u201d and the author\u2019s last name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring 2025 Essay Contest\u00a0 Submissions should be essays about a topic broadly connected to human rights. Successful submissions will introduce a novel approach or perspective to their topics and will have a strong nexus to human rights law. Submissions Window: January 15, 2025 \u2013 February 1, 2025. Submissions received outside this window will not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"parent":2117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2518\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hrj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}