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Sharing this here because I think it may be of interest to law students looking for something a little different from the usual competition circuit.
The Courts of the Living Competition is a youth-facing legal platform for students across Indian law schools. It begins with a simple concern: law shapes our relationship with the living world, yet more-than-human life rarely enters legal decision-making on its own terms. The competition asks students to work with live ecological conflicts around them and bring legal reasoning into much closer conversation with ecological reality.
Teams begin by identifying a conflict of coexistence near their own law school. Around 50 teams then move into a place-based field dossier process. The first edition eventually culminates in Kolkata, with its larger problem rooted in the Sundarbans.
There is also a fairly substantial award structure. The winning team receives ₹1,00,000, while the runner-up receives ₹50,000. Selected teams can receive up to ₹30,000 through Living Practice Awards to take their field insights into place-based action. Campus Commons Awards, also up to ₹30,000, support student-led initiatives within law schools. Selected students can additionally become Courts of the Living Emerging Practitioners, with six months of mentorship and curated introductions through the wider network.
There is no application fee. Teams consist of three students from the same law school, and applications close on 22 September 2026.
Would love for this to reach students across different kinds of law schools, so please do pass it around if it speaks to you.
Website:https://www.courtsoftheliving.com/
Apply:https://tally.so/r/A7RXol