新丝绸之路法学院联盟于2015年11月由我校法学院发起成立，是一个开放性、非营利性、国际化的高端法学教育合作平台，是我校积极相应国家“一带一路”倡议，推进丝绸之路大学联盟建设的重要举措。法学院联盟致力于促进国际化法律人才培养与国际化法学学科发展，推动和加强成员机构在人才培养、科学研究、学科建设和国际交流等方面的深度实质性合作。联盟的初始成员包括西安交通大学、清华大学、中国人民大学、复旦大学、上海交通大学、武汉大学、厦门大学、南京大学、吉林大学、山东大学、香港大学、台湾大学、新加坡国立大学、澳大利亚新南威尔士大学、芬兰赫尔辛基大学、印度德里大学、俄罗斯人民友谊大学、巴西FGV大学、韩国首尔国立大学、南非开普敦大学、吉尔吉斯斯坦国立大学等21所国内外一流大学法学院。经过几年的发展，联盟成员现已增加至25家。联盟秘书处为西安交通大学法学院。为了进一步推动联盟间的学术交流，鼓励学生积极开展论文写作，经联盟成员讨论，联盟于近期启动“2022年新丝绸之路法学院联盟论文大赛”，现将具体要求公布如下：

征文主题：“一带一路”倡议、国际商法、国际公法、国际私法领域的文章。

大赛奖励：一等奖三千美元（约合人民币两万元），二等奖一千美元（约合人民币六千七百元），三等奖五百美元（约合人民币三千三百元）。设立一等奖一名，二等奖三名，三等奖五名。

征文须知：

1.参赛对象：征文必须是作者的原创作品，作者须为上述盟校法学院在校学生。

2.征文限于大赛结束前尚未以任何形式公开发表，且尚未提交发表的学术论文。每名参赛者不得提交多个参赛论文。

3.稿件须使用英文撰写，字数在8000至15000字之间，包括摘要、尾注、脚注。文本应采用 12 磅 Times New Roman 字体，单倍行距，注释体例参照OSCOLA。

4.联盟将邀请世界知名学者担任评委，评委将对以下几点进行评分：

1）分析是否具有原创性和创新性，文章是否具有理论和/或实践意义。

2）文章文笔是否流畅，是否提供有见地的分析，是否以OSCOLA为注释体例。

5.截止日期： 2022年10月31日（太平洋标准时间），通过电子邮件方式发送至邮箱：NSRLSA@xjtu.edu.cn， 邮件主题为 “论文大赛”。论文大赛由专家双盲评审，为确保评委匿名审阅，请勿在稿件中透漏个人信息，下文提供的封面须与稿件一起提交。

6.新丝绸之路法学院联盟秘书处对本次大赛负责解释。

The New Silk Road Law Schools Alliance (NSRLSA) is pleased to announce the 2022 writing competition. This competition is open to articles written while the author is an active student at law schools of the Alliance.

Themes: the NSRLSA encourages and rewards articles in the area of “Silk and Road Initiative”, public international law, international economic law and private international law from a national or international perspective through the legal lens.

Prizes: First Place: $3000; Second Place: $1000, and Third Place: $500. One article will be selected for the First Place. Three articles will be selected for the Second Place. Five articles will be selected for the Third Place.

Rules

1. Manuscripts must be the original work of author/authors who are all students at schools of the Alliance. Authors may not have graduated from law school prior to December 31 2022.

2. Manuscripts may not be submitted for publication anywhere. No student may submit more than one entry.

3. The manuscript must be in English, between 8000 to 150000 words, including abstract, endnotes, footnotes. The text should be in 12-point Times New Roman font and signal-spaced. Citations should conform to OSCOLA.

4. World well-known professors and scholars will be invited to serve as judges. Articles and papers with a balanced full spectrum legal analysis will be selected for the awards and cash prizes. Judges will be grading on the following points:

1) Is the analysis original and innovative? Does the article have theoretical and/or practical significance?

2) Is the article well written, with strong endnotes following the OSCOLA and providing insightful information?

5. Articles must be submitted toNSRLSA@xjtu.edu.cn, using the subject line “Writing Competition”, by midnight (PST) on 31 October, 2022. To assure anonymous review by the judges, no personal information should appear on the manuscript itself. A separate cover page provided below must be submitted with the manuscript.

6. NSRLSA reserves the right for interpretation.

2022 NSRLSA Law Student Writing Competition

Student Information and Declaration

Title:

Author:

Law School:

Graduation Date:

E-mail Address:

Please confirm:

1.My paper has not been submitted for publication anywhere and I will not submit it for publication anywhere until this wiring competition is completed.

2.The paper is my original writing and has no competing interests to declare.

3.I have read all the rules of this competition and have fully complied therewith.

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