ALAI European Authors' Right Award

Are you a law student currently studying or researching authors’ right/copyright? Submit your application form and the abstract of your essay by November 15, 2024 and you may win a prize!

Prize:

The award, which amounts €2000, will be handed out to a student or researcher for submitting the best essay related to authors’ rights/copyright with a European dimension.

The essay must:

be related to authors’ rights/copyright;
have a European dimension (this may include a comparison of third-country systems with those of the EU);
include aspects that could be of interest to the collective management of authors’ rights/copyright.

Eligibility:

master’s students or newly master’s graduates (year 2024) from any university in the world (minimum 4th year tertiary, master’s level, LL.M, pre-doctoral or doctoral level students/researchers);
candidates must be under the age of 35 on 16 November 2024;
candidates must have been recommended to apply by at least one IP professor at a recognised university / faculty;
the essays to be submitted for the competition can be a new work specifically prepared for the competition or be based on another academic work still in progress or already completed and presented at an academic institution in 2023.
Guidelines are available in English, and in French.

Selection procedure/Key dates:

the candidates must submit their application form and an abstract of the essay they intend to present, at the latest by November 15, 2024;
the jury will make a first selection based on the abstracts submitted by the candidates. The result of this preliminary selection will be communicated to candidates on December 15, 2024;
the short-listed candidates will need to submit their completed essay at the latest by: February 15, 2025;
the jury will select the winner(s) and the results will be communicated to the candidates in the first half of April 2025.
The application form is available in English, as well as in French.