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Graphic with swirling blue, purple, and pink background calling for submissions to the 2023 Writing Prize for New Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice. In the upper right corner is an If/When/How logo. Centered in lime green and lilac colored text boxes is black text that reads, “Calling all law students! Submit to the 2023 Writing Prize.” Next to the “to” is a transparent black outline illustration of a hand with a pen. Floating over “the 2022” is an illustration of an open notebook. At the bottom, justified to the left, is white text with black outlining that states, “Write about reproductive Justice. Win money. Get published.” Below that is bold, black text that shares a link for more info, “Learn more at tinyurl.com/2023WritingPrize.”
08.23.2023  /   If/When/How Staff
Calling All Law Students! 2023 Writing Prize Submissions Are Now Open
If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice invite submissions for the 18th annual Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice.... Read more
12.7.2022  /   If/When/How Staff
The 2022 Writing Prize Winners Are In!
If/When/How, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law are pleased to announce the winners of the seventeenth annual Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice. Congratulations! First place: "Willful Disregard: How Ignoring Structural Racism in Maternal Mortality has led Black Women to Become Invisible in Their Own Crisis” by…... Read more
09.1.2022  /   If/When/How Staff
Calling All Law Students! 2022 Writing Prize Submissions Are Now Open
Winning authors will receive cash prizes, and the first-place winning submission will also be granted a “presumption of publishability” and receive expedited review by the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. Here's how to submit.... Read more
If/When/How graphic with a black and white photo to the left that shows a shelf of law report book spines. In the upper left corner is an If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice logo. To the right is a dark blue rectangle with text announcing the 2021 Writing Prize winners. At the top, capitalized in white text is "If/When/How, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, and the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice present the." Below this is bold, yellow text that reads, "2021 Writing Prize Winners." Under this is the list of the winners in descending order: First place: "COVID: A Silver Linings Playbook: Mobilizing Pandemic Era Success Stories to Advance Reproductive Justice” by Anna Reed, 2021 J.D. Candidate at Georgetown University Law Center. Second place: "Timing Legal Parenthood" by Noy Naaman, 2023 S.J.D. Candidate at University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Third place: "Fewer of Whom? Climate-based Population Policies Infringe on Marginalized People’s Reproductive Autonomy" by Rachel Zacharias, 2021 J.D. Candidate at University of Pennsylvania Law School. Honorable mention: "Lurking in the Shadows: The Supreme Court’s Unseen Effort to Erode Abortion Rights" by Emily Marcus, 2023 J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School.
01.5.2022  /   If/When/How Staff
The 2021 Writing Prize Winners Are In!
The 2021 Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice winners focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, climate policy, and other urgent intersections of the law with reproductive justice.... Read more
08.27.2021  /   Tayler Tucker
Calling All Law Students! 2021 Writing Prize Submissions Are Now Open
Winning authors will receive cash prizes, and the first-place winning submission will also be granted a “presumption of publishability” and receive expedited review by the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. Here's how to submit.... Read more