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We are now accepting nominations for the Book Award, which will recognize the best book on a legal subject published in 2022. Please contact Philip Johnson at scribeslegalwriters@gmail.com for more information on how to make a nomination.

We are now accepting nominations for our Law-Review Award, which will recognize an excellent student comment or note with a publication date between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023. Each journal may nominate one comment or note. For a nomination form or more information, contact Philip Johnson at scribeslegalwriters@gmail.com.

Dean Darby Dickerson and Professor Brooke Bowman have edited The Scribes Manual for Law Review Editors. This book is “the definitive source for student-editors who seek to excel in their positions and improve their journals.” ​Read a review here, and order a copy here.

Board member Katrina Lee can be found discussing representation of Asian American women in media in a Bloomberg Law column on the Netflix series “Partner Track.” Read the column here. ​Professor Lee is the Director of Program on Dispute Resolution at Ohio State’s Mortiz College of Law.

We are pleased to announce the winners of our Book, Brief, and Law Review Awards. ​Presumed Guilty by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky won this year’s Book Award. ​Morgan Vastag and Tanner Herrmann of University of Oklahoma College of Law won the Brief Award for their brief written for the Andrews Kurth Tournament of Champions. ​And Mona Alsaidi’s comment for the Temple Law Review,  Legally White, Effectively Othered: Recognizing and Investing in Arab American Communities, won our law review award.

Justice Hyman’s recently-published collection of 50 legal proverbs is available here. This piece originally appeared in the CBA Record, the flagship publication of the Chicago Bar Association.  Justice Michael B. Hyman, a former Scribes president, is also the editor-in-chief of the CBA Record.

We are now accepting nominations for this year's Law-Review Award. This award will recognize excellent student comments published over the 2021-22 academic year.