Second year Mercer Law student Minerva A. Steele won the 2011 International Bar Association (IBA) Student Committee Writing Competition. Her paper titled "Human Rights Violations: Today's Challenges and Tomorrow's Solution” won her a free trip to Dubai for the IBA 2011 Annual Conference, Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, 2011.

MACON - Martin Daniel Quinones and Rachel Schwartz, both students at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, are the winners of this year’s Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition. The Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition is a national disability law writing competition sponsored by Mercer University School of Law and the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. The competition honors the work of the late Professor Adam Milani, a passionate advocate for disability rights, an accomplished legal scholar, and a beloved faculty member at Mercer Law School.