From the Yale Law Journal:

The Yale Law Journal’s Ninth Annual Student Essay Competition challenges the next generation of legal scholars and practitioners to reflect on emerging legal problems. This year’s topic is “Emerging Issues in the Executive Power.” The Competition is open to current law students and recent law-school graduates nationwide. Up to three winners will be awarded a $300 cash prize. Winning submissions will be published in the Yale Law Journal Forum, the Journal’s online component. Our full competition announcement can be found here, and last year’s winners can be found here.

Essays should grapple with how the executive branch shapes and is shaped by the coordinate branches, new political and social realities, changing technologies, and/or other recent developments at home or abroad. We encourage submissions on a range of topics, including structural constitutional law and the separation of powers; collaboration and struggle between the federal executive and the states; administrative law and the evolving role of federal agencies; foreign policy, international law, and the U.S. relationship to our global allies and adversaries; executive control and discretion in the fields of immigration, prosecution, and incarceration; access to benefits and the welfare state; and any related areas that engage with the contemporary role of the executive branch. We hope to receive both clinical and academic submissions.

The submission deadline is September 5, 2025, at 5 p.m. ET. Submissions must be no shorter than 4,000 words and no longer than 8,000 words, including footnotes.