Jonathan Skinner, a third year student at Duke University School of Law, has been named winner of the 2010 Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest. Skinner wrote on the theme, "Can Coal Really Be Clean: Litigation Remedies for Coal Contamination from Mining to Combustion to Sequestration."
Read Skinner's winning essay, titled "Myths of Coal's Clean Future: The Story of Methylmercury."
THE ROSCOE HOGAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ESSAY CONTEST was established in 1970 by the prominent environmental lawyer, the late Roscoe B. Hogan of Birmingham, Alabama, and serves to provide law students the opportunity to investigate and offer solutions to the multitude of injustices inflicted on the environment. Any student currently enrolled in an accredited American law school may submit a legal essay for the competition.
The author of the winning essay receives a $5,000 Cash Prize; recognition in the Public Justice newsletter and on the website; publication of the essay in the Vermont Law School’s online Journal of Environmental Law; and a free Public Justice Foundation membership for the Contest Year.
Any student currently enrolled in an accredited American law school may enroll in the contest. Each entry must be submitted through a faculty adviser. All entrants must submit an intent-to-enter form by January 30th of the Contest Year.
The theme of the 2011 contest will be announced in September.
For more information, contact Cassandra Goings at (202) 797-8600, Ext. 244 or
cgoings@publicjustice.net
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previous winners
2009 - Don't Mess with Houston, Texas: The Clean Air Act and State/Local Preemption - Ryan Hackney, University of Texas School of Law
2008 - Flipping Daubert: Putting Climate Change Defendants in the Hot Seat - Ryan Hackney, University of Texas School of Law
2007 - Fifth Amendment Takings & Transitions in Water Law: Compensation (Just) for the Environment - Ling-Yee Huang, University of Florida College of Law
2006 - Striking at the Heart of Corporate Polluters: Resurrecting Quo Warranto
Proceedings to Revoke Corporate Charters - Mark Willis, Chicago-Kent College of Law
2005 - Speak Softly, but How Big a Stick? The Availability of Punitive Damages to Protect the Environment - Candace Howard, Maryland University School of Law
2004 - Versatile By Nature: Exploring the Law of the American Wilderness - Sarah Brull, University of Maryland
2003 - Graceful Maneuvering: Corporate Avoidance of Liability Through Bankruptcy and Corporate Law - John Heenan, Montana School of Law
2002 - Exporting our Dirt: Suing Corporations in U.S. Courts for Environmental Wrongs Committed Abroad - Natalie Bridgeman, UCLA School of Law
2001 - An Ounce of Preemption Is Worth a Pound of Cure: State Preemption of Local Siting Authority as Means for Achieving Environmental Equity - Tessa Meyer Santiago, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
2000 - Causation Standards for Toxic Torts - Alex P. Mayer, Santa Clara University School of Law
1999 - What Is an Environmental Expert? - Carl H. Johnson, University of Minnesota School of Law