About Lawyers Gyan:

Lawyers Gyan an emerging web portal which aims to create additional opportunities for all and to create a professional and healthy environment for the law students, teachers and professionals. We the team of Lawyers Gyan are a group of Highly Functioning professionals and have pledged to serve the legal fraternity by making the law accessible to all and impart basic legal knowledge to everyone. We have a journal called Lawyers Gyan Journal to promote legal research and publish manuscripts based on various branches of law.

About the competition:

Lawyers Gyan is proud to announce its Third Edition of “Lawyers Gyan National Essay Writing Competition, 2020”.

Submissions are invited from students, research scholars, academicians, and professionals from all across the country to participate and express their views on the given themes.

Themes:

Participants may write and express their views on any of the following themes:

  • 1.    Custodial Death
  • 2.    PM Cares Fund: Pros and Cons
  • 3.    Increase in Domestic Violence cases during Covid-19.
  • 4.    Criminalization of Marital Rape
  • 5.    Ban on Chinese App: Need and impacts
  • 6.    Mob Lynching
  • 7.    Homosexuality Laws in India

Eligibility:

a.     This competition is open for all students of Under-graduate or Post-graduate program from any recognized University in India.

b.    Students from other courses are also eligible.

c.     Any College or University can send any number of entries. There is no restriction on the number of entries from any college or university.

Registration:

Registration amount- Single Author- Rs. 100/- and Co-authorship- Rs. 150/-

Co-authorship is allowed to Maximum of 2 authors i.e. 1 Author & 1 Co-Author.

Participants can submit the Registration fee via PayTm or any other UPI at 8573000303@paytm, or via PhonePe, GPay, PayTm to +91-8573000303 (Pringle)

To Register, Click Here

After the payment, all the participant(s) must Email us the screenshot of the payment with their personal details like-

Name, Course, College, Email, Phone number, and Topic

In case of co-authorship, details of both the participants must be mentioned separately.

Email at lawyersgyaan@gmail.com , support@lawyersgyan.com , admin@lawyersgyan.com.

Submissions guidelines:

Participants are to adhere to the following guidelines while submitting their essay:

1. Multiple entries by one author are not allowed.

2. A participant can choose only ONE Theme.

3. Word Limit: 2000-3000 words (excluding footnotes).

4. Formatting specifications:

a. Font and size for the essay: Times New Roman | 12

b. Font and size for footnotes: Times New Roman | 10

c. Line spacing: 1.5

5. Uniform style of citation (follow Bluebook 20th Edition)

6. The file name must consist only of the author’s name; in case of co-authorship both the authors name.

7. Essay must be in .docx or .doc.

8. The competition shall be in English only.

9. Write-ups shall have no plagiarism and should be an original work of the participants.

10. Participants should email there essay at lawyersgyaan@gmail.com. ,

admin@lawyersgyan.com.

11. The subject line of the email will be “Submission for Essay Writing Competition 2020–

[Name of Author(s)]”.

Judge panel:

  • 1.    Hon’ble Justice Mr. C. Singh, (Retired)
  • 2.    Mr. Sanjeev Singh, Advocate
  • 3.    Prof. Vishesh Bhardwaj
  • 4.    Mr. Devendra Singh, RTI Activist

Important dates:

Last Date of Registration: 31st August 2020

Last Date of Submission: 05th September 2020

Date of Results: 15th September 2020

Issuance of e-certificate: 25th September 2020

Prizes:

1.    Winner: Rs. 500+ Merit Certificate

2.    First Runner-Up: Rs. 250 + Merit Certificate

3.    Second Runner-Up: Rs. 100 + Merit Certificate

4.    All participants will get e-certificate of participation.

For More Information Contact:

Email ID: lawyersgyaan@gmail.com , support@lawyersgyan.com.

Contact No.: +91- 9044264164 (WhatsApp)