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The Robert T.
Matsui Annual Writing Competition was established by AEF in 2005 to
honor the late Congressman Robert T. Matsui and his many
accomplishments. Through this writing competition, AEF seeks to
encourage legal scholarship on issues of importance to the Asian
Pacific American legal community and, more generally, the publication
of law review articles on topics of relevance to racial and ethnic
minorities and the law.
The competition is
open to all law students nationwide in the United States and, in
future years, may be expanded to include attorneys as well.
Submissions for the 2008 competition must be received by June 1,
2008, and the winner will be announced by September 1, 2008.
Submissions must be original works and not previously published. The
winner of the 2008 competition will receive a monetary award of
fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500), and the winning entry will be
published by the Asian Pacific American Law Journal, at the
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
A graduate of the
University of California at Berkeley and the Hastings College of the
Law, Congressman Matsui was first elected to the United States
Congress in 1978 from Sacramento, California. He won re-election to
Congress 13 times. Congressman Matsui was a strong supporter of AEF,
serving as the keynote speaker for the Annual Benefit Dinner in 1997
and again in 2003.
A number of
prominent scholars, practitioners and jurists nationwide have agreed
to serve on the competition's Board of Advisers, including Justice
Ming W. Chin of the Supreme Court of California; U.S. Attorney Debra
W. Yang of the Central District of California, who keynoted the 2005
Annual Benefit Dinner; Georgetown Law Professor and former Assistant
U.S. Attorney General Viet D. Dinh; Vincent A. Eng, Deputy Driector of
the Asian American Justice Center and an adjunct law professor at
American University, Washington Colleg of Law; UCLA Law Professor
Jerry Kang; Paul Igasaki, former Vice-Chair of the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission; and Michael P. Chu and John C.
Yang, past presidents of the National Asian Pacific American Bar
Association.
To apply, please
click here
to download
a 2008 competition application. For more information about the
competition, please click
here. For information about the 2007 winner, please
click here. |
