The David A. Garfinkel Essay Contest has been announced for the seventh consecutive year. The contest is entitled: Who Watches the Watchers? Free Speech and Free Press in the Electronic Age. The contest is open to all CUNY and SUNY community college students registered for the fall semester of 2013 or the spring semester of 2014. Essay submissions will be accepted starting December 13, 2013 through April 1, 2014.
This year, the contest will once again recognize students from New York’s two community college systems, CUNY and SUNY. A panel of members of the New York Bench and Bar will select the winning essays. The Historical Society of the New York Courts has established prizes to recognize a CUNY and a SUNY winner with a $1,000 prize each. A third student from either educational system will also be awarded the Grand Prize of $1,500.
The winners will be honored at the Law Day ceremony at Court of Appeals Hall in Albany, an event at which the Chief Judge of the State of New York presides and state dignitaries attend.
For more information, go to www.nycourts.gov/history.
Published: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:58:46 +0000 by e.bryant