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| Samuel I. Golieb Competition | |
|---|---|
| Name | Samuel I. Golieb Competition |
| Established | 1965 |
| Presenter | New York City Bar Association |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Country | United States |
Samuel I. Golieb Competition
The Samuel I. Golieb Competition is an annual legal writing and essay prize administered by the New York City Bar Association recognizing excellence in legal scholarship and practical analysis. Its administration, criteria, and recipients have intersected with institutions such as the American Bar Association, Columbia Law School, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, and Brooklyn Law School while attracting entrants from firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Sullivan & Cromwell, DLA Piper, and Covington & Burling. The prize has been cited in discussions involving courts including the United States Supreme Court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the New York Court of Appeals.
The competition is administered by the New York City Bar Association and named in honor of a jurist associated with the New York State Bar and New York legal history. Entrants routinely include students from Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, University of Chicago Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and practitioners from firms such as Latham & Watkins, White & Case, Jones Day, Allen & Overy, and Linklaters. Judges, academics, and practitioners from institutions including the American Law Institute, Federal Judicial Center, Brookings Institution, Hoover Institution, and Cato Institute have commented on submissions and standards.
The prize was established in the mid-20th century and has evolved alongside changes in legal practice and scholarship influenced by developments involving the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fourteenth Amendment, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and landmark decisions like Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, and Miranda v. Arizona. Over time the competition attracted participants from law reviews including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Michigan Law Review, and commentators from organizations such as the American Constitution Society, the Federalist Society, ACLU, Legal Aid Society (New York), and NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Administrators and sponsors have included representatives from New York University, Columbia University, Fordham University School of Law, St. John's University School of Law, and Cardozo School of Law.
Eligibility typically extends to practitioners licensed in jurisdictions like New York State, California, Illinois, Texas, and Florida, as well as students enrolled at Harvard University, Princeton University, Cornell University, Brown University, and Dartmouth College who attend affiliated law schools. Entrants have come from clerkships with judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, clerkships with the New York County Supreme Court (New York State), and public interest positions at groups such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Environmental Defense Fund. The rules address citation formats preferred by publications including the Bluebook, and reference styles used by periodicals like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Submissions are evaluated by panels composed of members of the New York City Bar Association, academics from Columbia Law School, NYU School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, practitioners from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Debevoise & Plimpton, and judges from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The judging criteria reflect considerations familiar to editors of the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal: clarity, doctrinal analysis involving cases like United States v. Nixon, Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., and Brown v. Board of Education, and practical implications for entities such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service. The format has included rounds of anonymized review, oral presentations before panels featuring professors from NYU, Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford, and opportunities for finalists to workshop with attorneys from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Winners have received monetary awards, publication opportunities in venues like the New York Law Journal, the American Bar Association Journal, and university law reviews, and accolades that have aided placements in clerkships with justices of the United States Supreme Court, appointments to agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, positions at think tanks like the Brookings Institution, and roles at NGOs including Human Rights Watch. Sponsors over the years have included major law firms—Skadden, Cravath, Sullivan & Cromwell—and philanthropic foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Past winners and notable entrants have included alumni and affiliates of Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, NYU School of Law, Stanford Law School, and practitioners later associated with institutions like the United States Department of Justice, the New York Attorney General's Office, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights First, and corporate legal departments at Microsoft, Google, Apple Inc., Amazon (company), and Meta Platforms. Some winning pieces engaged with doctrines and disputes connected to Antitrust Division (United States Department of Justice), Federal Communications Commission, National Labor Relations Board, and cases such as Katz v. United States and United States v. Windsor.
Commentators from publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Review, The New Republic, and The Economist have discussed the competition's role in shaping legal discourse, alongside academic commentary from contributors to Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Columbia Law Review. The competition is credited with influencing careers at institutions such as the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Southern District of New York, the New York State Court of Appeals, and policy debates involving the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and Securities and Exchange Commission.
Category:Legal awards