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Best Paper Prize


The IPBA Publications Committee is holding the second annual Best Paper Prize Program at the 22nd Annual Meeting and Conference in New Delhi, India, February 29 to March 3, 2012.

Guidelines

  1. The competition is open to all IPBA members who have registered for the IPBA Annual Conference.
     
  2. Articles submitted must focus primarily on legal issues that would be of interest to business and commercial lawyers in the world.
     
  3. The competition is open to articles of up to 4,500 words excluding footnotes and bibliography. Entries outside the workd limitation will be disqualified.
     
  4. All entires must be in English, original, unpublished and not submitted or accepted elsewhere at the time of submission.
     
  5. No more than one article may be submitted by the same author. Co-authored articles will not be accepted.
     
  6. Entries must be received by the IPBA Secretariat at ipba@ipba.org by the paper submission deadline set by the Conference Host Committee. Late or incomplete articles will not be accepted for consideration.
     
  7. A summary of the best paper will be published in the IPBA Journal. The paper selected to be published shall follow the IPBA's Publications Committee Guidelines, and copyright to the paper will belong to the IPBA.
     
  8. The best paper will be selected by the Best Paper Selection Committee comprising two to three Past Presidents of the IPBA.
     
  9. Selection of the best paper will be based on: a) creativity and depth of the legal analysis; b) thoroughness of the legal research; and c) structure and writing style.
     
  10. The author of the best paper will be acknowledged and presented with a certificate at the Annual General Meeting of the IPBA held during the Annual Conference.
     
  11. Any inquiries regarding this Best Paper Prize Program should be sent to the IPBA Secretariat at ipba@ipba.org.
     
  12. The Publications Committee will be responsible for the implementation of this program.

For further information, please contact Hideki Kojima, Chairman of the Publications Committee, at kojima@kojimalaw.jp.

 

To register for the IPBA 22nd Annual Meeting and Conference, visit the conference web site:

http://www.ipba2012.org