About Competition
The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, National University of Advanced Legal Studies is organising the IXth edition of its Essay Competition. The event aims to foster interest and award excellent research in the field of IP. It seeks to further encourage discourse on contemporary topics related to the subject, its increased importance in a developing world and at the same time, its relationship with equity and public welfare.
About CIPAR, NUALS
The Centre was established to promote Intellectual Property awareness among students and to encourage research in the emerging arena of Intellectual Property. It aims to and has been fostering research and development activities that blend with its central mission of intellectual pursuit and link-related inter-disciplinary involvement to develop an intellectual law database that would benefit the nation at large. The Centre hosts not only legal contributors to the intellectual property domain but also experts from every emerging field of technology, thus creating a significant and effective interface between the creator community and the legal populace.
Theme –
“IP and SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity”.
Eligibility
- Undergraduate Student
- Postgraduate Student
General Guidelines
- There is no registration required for the competition
- Each essay must address the theme.
- Word Limit – not exceed 2500 words (exclusive of abstract, diagrams, tables of data, footnotes, bibliography or authorship declaration).
- Co-authoring of papers among individuals of the same or different institutions is permissible. A maximum of one co-author is allowed.
- The filename of your pdf must be in this format: Name (Of Submitting Author) – Name (Of Author 02, If Applicable)—TitleOfTheSubmittedEssay.pdf; so, for instance, Peter Parker would submit his essay titled “The Jurisprudence of Overlapping Patents in the Multiverse” with the following file name – PeterParker-TheJurisprudenceOfOverlappingPatentsInTheMultiverse.pdf
- Essays with filenames which are not in this format will NOT be accepted.
Formatting Guidelines
- Font – Times New Roman/ Garamond.
- Main text – 12
- Footnotes – 10
- A one-line gap between all paragraphs and headings.
- Citation – OSCOLA 4thedition format.
- Cite all sources referenced and should avoid plagiarism of any kind. The use of AI writing tools, if detected, would result in summary rejection of the submission.
- The file needs to be submitted in both .pdf and .doc/.docx file formats.
Acceptance of your essay depends on your permitting us to use your data to receive and process your entry as well as communicating with you about any awards. Hence, please fill out and sign the author(s) declaration form available on our website, and on our social media handles. Alternatively, you may email us and we’d be happy to share the same with you.
No part of the submission should have been published earlier nor should it be under consideration for publication or a contest elsewhere. The essay should not contain names or any other marks which reveal the identity of the author.
Registration Fee
No
Submission Link
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUAMmh0o-5bcbvWFqro6plZRZ9j2Xv9D-0abqUgPR_gpdm7g/viewform
All submissions must be made via Google Forms. No other mode of submission shall be allowed. Further, no re-submission shall be allowed. CIPR reserves the right to reject all submissions made after the deadline.
Assessment
Essays will be judged on the following parameters:
- knowledge and understanding of the relevant material
- the competent use of evidence
- quality of argumentation
- originality, structure
- writing style
- persuasive force.
The very best essays are likely to be those which would be capable of changing somebody’s mind or kickstarting a thought process regarding the essay topic in somebody’s mind. The judges’ decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into. The awards are issued by the University administration and we aim to expedite the process in whatever way possible. Essays which ignore or fail to address the strongest objections and counter-arguments to the central theme are unlikely to be successful.
Prizes
- First Prize- INR 10,000/-
- Second Prize- INR 5,000/-
- Third Prize – INR 3,000/-
Submission Deadline
Monday, 30th September 2024 by 11.59 pm IST.
Contact
Any queries regarding the competition should be sent to [email protected]
