Scholarship and Grant Opportunities
The Engelberg Center maintains a list of external scholarships and other grant opportunities related to our areas of focus. As many of these opportunities open on an annual basis, the list also includes opportunities that have recently closed. In many cases, the opportunity will re-open on a similar timeline next year.
Open Scholarship and Grant Opportunities
Scholarship, The Judge John R. Brown Foundation ($15,000 First Place, $7,500 Second Place, $5,000 Third Place, $2,500 to Two Finalists, deadline May 30, 2025)
Jan Jancin Competition, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) ($5,000 prize, deadline May 31, 2025)
Writing Competition, Georgetown Institute for Technology Law & Policy and the Georgetown Law Technology Review ($1,000 First Place, deadline June 6, 2025)
Scholarship, Chapman Albin ($1,000 prize, deadline June 13, 2025)
Hon. Frederick E. McKelvey Writing Competition, The American Association of Patent Judges ($1,000 First Place Prize, $500 Runner-Up Prize, deadline June 30, 2025)
Robert C. Watson Award, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) (deadline June 30, 2025)
George Hutchinson Writing Competition, Federal Circuit Bar Association ($3,000 prize, deadline July 1, 2025)
Maurice Klitzman Award, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) (deadline August 31, 2025)
Writing Competition, Boston Patent Law Association (BPLA) ($1,000 First Place, $500 Second Place; deadline September 30, 2025)
Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Contest, Recording Academy ($10,000 tuition scholarship, deadline October 8, 2025)
Closed Scholarship and Grant Opportunities
Here you will find all recently closed opportunities within the last year. We are constantly updating these opportunities when new deadlines become available. If you are interested in any of the below opportunities, feel free to click on the hyperlinks to learn more about the programs.
James R. Cleary Prize for Student Media Law and Policy Research in 2020 ($1,000 First Place, $500 Second Place, $250 Third Place, deadline April 30, 2025)
Phil Cowan - Judith Bresler Memorial Scholarship, New York Student Bar Association ($2,500 prize - 2 available, deadline April 21, 2025)
Federal Circuit Bar Association Scholarship ($10,000 prize, deadline April 15, 2025)
IPIL SSG-Profs Program for Tenured or Tenure-Track Law Professors, The Honorable Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property American Inn of Court ($4,000 prize, deadline March 14, 2025)
Trandafir Writing Competition, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems with University of Iowa College of Law International and Comparative Law Program ($2,000 prize, deadline March 14, 2025)
Hon. William C. Conner Writing Competition, The New York Intellectual Property Law Association ($2,500 First Place Prize, $1,500 Runner-Up Prize, deadline March 7, 2025)
Writing Contest, Pennsylvania Bar Association – Open to law students who plan to take the Pennsylvania Bar Exam only ($1,000 prize, deadline February 8, 2025)
Cudahy Competition, The Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law ($1,500 prize, February 3, 2025)
Sidney B. Williams Jr. Scholar, Foundation for Advancement of Diversity in IP Law Scholarship Program ($30,000 tuition grant award, payable over three years to students seeking law school admission, deadline January 31, 2025)
2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition, The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (First deadline November 15, 2024)
