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.

Submission Deadline: 5:00 pm PT on November 1, 2024.

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

Previous Weddington Prize Winners

"When the Body Is a Weapon: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of HIV Criminalization in Louisiana"
Rachel Brown

“Borders Across Bodies: Assessing the Balance of Expanding CHIP Coverage at the Expense of Advancing Fetal Personhood”
Hailey Cleek

COVID: A Silver Linings Playbook: Mobilizing Pandemic Era Success Stories to Advance Reproductive Justice
Anna Reed

“The Legal Limbo of Menstrual Regulation: Implications of a “Plan C” for fertility control in the U.S.”
Samantha Gogol Lint