Write a short essay on any aspect of law or popular culture to be in with a chance of winning £100!
Students
are invited to write a short essay on any aspect of law and popular culture.
There’s
a prize fund of £100 in Amazon vouchers to be shared amongst the winners –
winning will also look great on your CV!
Your
essay should be based on any aspect of law and popular culture, for example you
may wish to write about the legal themes explored in one of the films shown in
the ‘Law & Film’ sessions, how female lawyers are depicted on TV, what
impact popular music has on attitudes towards sexual violence, or the legal
impact of Nordic crime novels. In fact you can write about pretty much
anything that interests you, and you will be rewarded for originality.
Essays will be judged on how well they demonstrate the skills you’ve been
taught in the ‘How to…’ sessions so you should demonstrate that you can conduct
research, construct an argument, be critical in your analysis, and reference it
all properly.
The rules
- Entrants
must be undergraduate or post-graduate students enrolled at the University
of Northampton
- Essays
must be your own, original work – plagiarism or academic misconduct will
result in disqualification and may affect future references
- Essays
must be between 1,000 and 1,500 words, excluding footnotes and
bibliography – the word count should be included in your essay
- Essays
should be referenced following the OSCOLA system
- The
closing date for entries is midnight on Friday 27th February
2015
- Essays
will be anonymised for the judging process to ensure fairness, but please
include your full name and student number in your email
- Essays
will be judged by a panel of law lecturers - their decision will be final
- Winners
will be announced no later than Friday 27th March 2015 on the
Law NILE site
There will be hints, tips and
discussion from your lecturers on Twitter using the hashtag #UNLawEssay
