The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice is now accepting submissions for its second annual student writing competition.

The Catherine Albiston Prize for Recent Developments on Gender, Law & Justice gives students the opportunity to submit pieces for publication in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice during the 2013-2014 academic year.

We invite submissions of research, analysis, narrative, theory, and commentary that critically examine the intersection of gender with one or more other axes of subordination, including, but not limited to, race, class, sexual orientation, and disability. Pieces may be geared toward theoretical legal philosophy or pragmatic, on-the-ground lawyering. We welcome interdisciplinary pieces, but there must be a focus on the law.

It is our experience that papers cannot be judged based on page-length, but rather on the underlying quality of work. With that in mind, we recommend that students submit a manuscript of 30 – 50 pages

Mandate: Submissions should meet the mandate of the journal.

Because conditions of inequality are continually changing, our mandate is also continually evolving. Pieces may come within the mandate because of their subject matter or because of their analytical attention to differences in social location among women.

Eligibility: In order to qualify for selection, the author must be enrolled as a student in law school for the Spring semester of 2013. If any part of a paper has already been published, or is to be published elsewhere, we cannot accept the piece.

Instructions for Submission: All entries must be submitted to BGLJ.Solicitations@gmail.com by May 15, 2013.

Student Contest Flyer

The Journal created the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of Social Justice for Women in 1985 when theJournal was founded. Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong was the only woman in the Boalt Hall Class of 1915. She became the Morrison Professor of Municipal Law, Emeritus, and was the first tenured woman law professor in the United States. She was instrumental in drafting state and federal social security acts and also published a monumental text on family law and community property.

The Armstrong Award is a national award open to all people—including scholars, community workers, legal practitioners, and activists—who demonstrate outstanding advocacy on behalf of social justice for women and underrepresented genders. The recipient is chosen by the membership of the Journal.

The recipient of this year’s Armstrong Award is Anne Tamar-Mattis. Ms. Tamar-Mattis, a Berkeley Law alumna and former Journal member, currently teaches Sexual Orientation & the Law at Berkeley Law and is the Founder & Executive Director of Advocates for Informed Choice—the nation’s first and only organization that provides legal advocacy on behalf of children with intersex conditions or differences of sex development. Advocates for Informed Choice builds upon the peer support and political advocacy work already taking place within the intersex community by providing patient advocates and members of the media with the resources they need to support children born with intersex conditions and by stimulating legal dialogue about the civil and human rights of intersex children. Ms. Tamar-Mattis is also deeply involved in the LGBT rights movement: among her many endeavors, she has served as the director of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, an intern with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the East Bay Community Law Center’s HIV Law Clinic, and the director of a peer-support hotline for LGBT youth.

The Journal is very proud of Anne Tamar-Mattis and is honored to present her with the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for her ongoing advocacy on behalf of LGBT and intersex communities.