American Planning Association Student Writing Competition

Are you a law student or urban planning graduate student?  Have you recently written a paper on city planning or associated areas of law (e.g., land use, local government or environmental law)?  Or would you like to write a paper on those topics?  If so, why not enter the 28th Annual Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition sponsored by the Planning & Law Division of the American Planning Association?

You could win the top prize of $2,500 prize and publication in The Urban Lawyer, the law journal of the American Bar Association’s Section of State & Local Government Law.  There is also  a second place prize of $1,000 and up to two Honorable Mentions of $250.

The deadline for submission of entries is June 6, 2011. For rules and more information, see APA-PLD Student Writing Competition 2011 revised.