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Call for Student Papers To Become the IEL Hartrick Scholar for 2023

The IEL Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition: The Institute for Energy Law of The Center for American and International Law announces its 2023 Hartrick Scholar writing competition.  All eligible students are invited to participate.

Eligible Students and Topics: Students enrolled in law school anywhere in the world as of December 2022, and seeking a first degree in law, such as a juris doctor, LL. B. or an equivalent, are eligible to submit an article for consideration in the IEL Hartrick Scholar competition. The general subject for this year’s competition is any topic related to energy development. This includes, for example, topics concerning oil and gas law, alternative energy resources, energy regulation, and environmental regulation of the energy industries.

The article can be any work prepared by the student while enrolled in law school and can include prior works prepared for a law journal or a law school course, so long as the submitted version complies with the submission guidelines. The Hartrick Scholar Judging Committee will select one or more outstanding submissions that they deem worthy of recognition.

Submission Guidelines: The article must be submitted electronically to the Hartrick Scholar Judging Committee, at the address listed below, on or before March 1, 2023. The article should not exceed 8,000 words including footnotes (this approximates 40 double-spaced pages of text and footnotes or 25 printed pages). Footnotes should be in Blue Book format and placed at the bottom of the page where the footnoted text appears. The article should be submitted in pdf format accompanied by a cover email message that contains the following information: (1) your name; (2) the title of your article; (3) the law school where you are currently enrolled; (4) your year at law school (in 2022-23); (5) your mailing address; (6) your telephone number, preferably cell phone; and (7) your email address. The article should NOT contain your name, law school, or any other identifying information. The winning paper will be published in the 74th Annual Proceedings of the Institute on Energy Law; therefore if the article has been published elsewhere, the submission must include permission to publish the article from the original publisher.

Law Schools

Law school members of the IEL have one representative on the IEL’s Advisory Board, who is entitled to attend the Annual Energy Law Conference and the various Advisory Board events free of charge.  The Law School Advisory Board representative can also nominate two students to attend most of IEL’s programs throughout the year free of registration fees.

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Law Students

Law students are encouraged to attend all IEL conferences.  If your school is an IEL law school member, it can nominate two students to attend most IEL programs free of tuition fees (unfortunately we cannot offer travel or accommodation expenses), and if you are nominated you will be entitled to all the privileges of a conference delegate such as meals, written materials, and access to online materials.

IEL has Law Student Membership available for $25. Law Student Members become part of IEL’s vibrant Young Energy Professionals’ (YEP) Committee. Law Student Members are invited to YEP social events and free webinars. 

If your school is not an IEL member, or if your school has already nominated two students to attend free of charge, you can still register for a conference at the student rate (usually $125 for a one day conference, and $150 for two days) and receive all the privileges of a conference delegate. 

In addition, when space permits, any law student can attend any IEL program free of charge “on audit”, but in that case will not be entitled to delegate privileges.

Law students are invited to submit articles for consideration for our Young Energy Professionals’ publication, The Energy Dispatch, and our member newsletter, the Energy Law Advisor. For questions regarding submission guidelines, please email vadams@cailaw.org.

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The Institute for Energy Law Announces 2022 Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition Winner

The 2022 winner of the Institute for Energy Law’s Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition is Molly Samsell. Molly is a second-year student at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Molly ran a non-profit makerspace. She holds an M.F.A in Studio Art and B.A.s in Astrophysics and Photography.

Her winning paper is entitled Oil’s Well That Ends Well—An Application for a New Mexico-Texas Transboundary Well and Its Implications. The paper will be published in the Institute for Energy Law’s Proceedings of the 73^rd Annual Institute on Energy Law and the New Mexico Law Review. 

Molly received a $2,500 prize for winning the competition.

Other finalists this year included:

• Virginia Porter Allen of the University of Miami School of Law with the paper The Liability Regime and Tax Incentives of Carbon Sequestration in Comparison to Enhanced Oil Recovery
• Claire Brown of Georgetown University Law Center with the paper Regulating the “Low-Level” Offenders in the Methane Emissions Battle
• Travis Murphy of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law with the paper The Limits of the Minimum Offer Price Rule After F.E.R.C. v. Electrical Power Supply Association
• To Nhu of the University of Houston Law Center with the paper Yes! In My Backyard: Community Participatory Strategies to Boost Acceptance of Wind Energy

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