Religious Liberty Student Writing Contest
2017 Founding Fathers Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition Award Winners
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the J. Reuben Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies are pleased to announce the winners of the 8th Annual Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition. The winners were announced at the International Religious Liberty Awards Dinner held on Thursday, October 5, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
First Place ($4000): Michael West (University of Virginia School of Law)
Paper Title: Waiving the Ministerial Exception
Second Place ($3000): Daniel Boger (University of Virginia School of Law)
Paper title: The Executive Branch as a Promoter of Religious Liberty …
Winners of the 7th Annual Founding Fathers Religious Liberty Writing Contest – October 2016
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies are pleased to announce the winners of the Seventh Annual Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition. The winners were announced at the International Religious Liberty Awards Dinner held on Thursday, 6 October 2016 in Washington DC.
First Place $4000: Herman Hofman (Michigan State University College of Law)
Second Place $3000: Courtney Miller (University of Virginia School of Law)
Third Place $2000: Lisa Mathews (George Mason School of Law)
Honorable Mention $1000: Caleb Wolanek and Heidi Liu (Harvard Law School); Nevin Beiler (Regent University School of Law); Jonathan Backer (University of Michigan Law School); William Simpson (Boston University…
Winners of the 6th Annual Founding Fathers Religious Liberty Writing Contest – October 2015
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies of Brigham Young University are pleased to announce the winners of the Sixth Annual Founding Fathers Religious Liberty Writing Contest.
The following students were honored at an Awards Dinner held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC on 8 October 2015.
First Place:Cash Award of $4000
- Nicholas Reaves (University of Virginia School of Law) – “Uniquely Qualified: The Constitutionality of Police and Clergy Alliances”
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Religious Liberty Essay Contest 2014
Winners of the 2014 Religious Liberty Student Writing Contest were announced at the Fifth Annual International Religious Liberty Award Dinner in Washington D.C. on October 9. The contest is sponsored annually by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University.
Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, W. Cole Durham, Jr., presented awards for their excellent papers to Audra Savage, Paul Quast, Paul Baumgardner, Kelly Thomas, and Zachary Phillipps.
1st Place: Audra L. Savage, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University
Paper: Turning the Other Cheek: The Persecution of the Christian Minority
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Religious Liberty Writing Contest Winners – Washington DC, 10 October 2013
The International Center for Law and Religion Studies and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society were honored to present to Dr. John Graz, Secretary-General of the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA), the 2013 Religious Liberty Award. The award was presented at an Awards Dinner held October 10, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Those in attendance were also privileged to hear remarks from former senator Gordon Smith, who spoke on the unique link between American history and religious freedom.
Also honored at the dinner were the winners of the 2013 Religious Liberty Essay Contest. Eric Baxter, Chair of the D.C. Mid-Atlantic Chapter for the J. Reuben Clark Law Society presented awards to James Cleith Phillips, Ethan Blevins, Landes Taylor, and Spencer R. Nelson for their essays treating aspects of religious freedom in law, jurisprudence, and legal scholarship.
Winners of the 2012 Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition
Winners of the Third Annual Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition were announced at an Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C., on 11 October 2012:
First Place – Aaron R. Petty, “Faith, However Defined”: Reassessing JFS and the Judicial Conception of “Religion”
Second Place – Brian K. Mosely, Zoning Religion Out of the Public Square: Constitutional Avoidance and Conflicting Interpretations of RLUIPA’s Equal Terms Provision…
Winners of the 2011 Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition
Winners of the Second Annual Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition were announced at an Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C., on 6 October 2011.
First prize of $1500 was awarded to Kevin L. Brady, University of Chicago Law School, for his paper “Religious Sincerity and Imperfection: Can Lapsing Prisoners Recover Under RFRA and RLUIPA?”
Second prize of $1000 went to R. Walker Humphrey II, Charleston School of Law, for “Dennis the Menace?: An Analysis of Whether the Episcopal Church’s…