Sarah Weddington Writing Prize
The Sarah Weddington Writing Prize celebrates new student scholarship in reproductive rights.
Read more about this year’s prompt here.
Prizes: Winning authors will receive cash prizes: $750 (1st place), $500 (2nd place), or $250 (3rd place), and a copy of the textbook, Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice (Murray & Luker). 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.
To ask questions or submit: Email bglj.rdc@berkeley.edu
“It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.”
— Sarah Weddington
Congratulations to the 2021 Winner!
Anna Reed’s (Georgetown Class of 2021) “COVID: A Silver Linings Playbook: Mobilizing Pandemic Era Success Stories to Advance Reproductive Justice”