Student Article Prize

The McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law (MJSDL) would like to invite McGill Law students (and recent alumni) to submit articles for publication. Articles must be relevant to the journal’s mission and fit the criteria below.

Each semester, the winner of the Prize will receive $200, and they may work with the MJSDL team for the article to be published in an upcoming volume of the MJSDL.

Eligibility

  • All current McGill Law students: JD/BCL; LLM; DCL. Or within 1 year of graduating McGill Law.

  • Exception: current MJSDL Senior Editors, Executive Editors and Editor-in-Chief. Due to their critical role in the evaluation and editorial processing of articles, these individuals are invited to submit their article after their term on the MJSDL team.

 Submission Criteria

  • Article must meet general MJSDL criteria.

    • Articles are welcome in French or English, and must be 10,000-15,000 words (excluding footnotes).

    • Citations must conform to the 10th edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation.      

  • JD/BCL students writing a term paper can submit their completed term paper for the Prize, but must remedy the word count difference.

  • There are no strict criteria for the prize, but the MJSDL board will have the discretion to consider factors such as:

    • Strength of argument

    • Originality

    • Clarity of writing

    • Bonus: Adherence to the annual editorial theme (V21: Indigenous governance)

Submission timeline and process

  • Articles are due one week before the beginning of each new semester.

  • Next submission deadline: December 30, 2024

  • Please remove any personal identifiers (ie. name, student ID) from your document, and email your submission in Word to the Award Coordinator at alexia.armstrong@mail.mcgill.ca, who will ensure anonymity in the Executive team decision process.

Contact information

  • Please contact Alexia at alexia.armstrong@mail.mcgill or Ben at mjsdl-management@mcgill.ca with any questions.

Please note, the MJSDL reserves the right to not award a prize on a given semester if all submissions fail to meet criteria.

In addition, winning the Prize does not guarantee publication of the article in the MJSDL, but all articles submitted will be considered for publication. More than one student article may be selected for publication.