WHAT Phanor J. Eder LL.B./J.D. Prize in Comparative Law
WHEN April 28-29, 2017
WHERE Istanbul, Koç University Law School
The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law (YCC) is pleased to invite
submissions for the Phanor J. Eder LL.B./J.D. Prize in Comparative Law, in connection with its Sixth
Annual Conference, to be held on April 28-29, 2017, at Koç University Law School in Istanbul, Turkey. The
Phanor J. Eder Prize is named in honor of the first president of the American Society of Comparative Law.
Subject Matter and Eligibility
The Phanor J. Eder Prize will be awarded to the best comparative law paper submitted by an LL.B. or J.D. student;
one or more honorable mentions will also be awarded.
Papers will be accepted on any subject in public or private comparative law from students currently enrolled in a
J.D. or LL.B. program, who will not yet have received their degree as of April 1, 2017.
Submissions from graduate students enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs are not eligible for this prize but
may participate in a separate competition. Information is available at http://ascl.org/new-scholarship.
Submission Instructions
To submit an entry, students should send an email to phanorjederprize@gmail.com with the subject line:
“Submission for Phanor J. Eder Prize.” The email should state each author’s name and law school contact
information, the title of the paper, and a certification that each author is an LL.B. or J.D. student satisfying the
criteria set out above. The paper should be attached to this email in Microsoft Word or PDF format. Papers must
be no more than 15,000 words (excluding footnotes). Submissions should reflect original research that will
not yet have been published by the time of the conference, although it may have been accepted for publication.
The deadline for submission is January 16, 2017.
Scholars may make only one submission. Co-authored submissions will be accepted, provided that all authors
satisfy the eligibility criteria and provide a certification to that effect.
