Student Scholarships

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Awarded Scholarships

For the past 20 years, the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, Inc. (BESLA) has awarded over $110,000 in scholarships to deserving law students seeking careers in the entertainment and sports industries.  As part of BESLA’s 6th Annual BESLA Scholarship Legal Writing Competition, law students were able to submit either (1) a written essay, or (2) a digital response in the form of a video or slideshow presentation on the timely entertainment and sports topics of:

1. Disrupters: How is the continuing growth of Social Media - Social Networks, Blogging and Microblogging – impacting the Entertainment and Sports Industries?
Issues  considered*:

• Legal issues of contract, ownership, new technology, intellectual property rights, privacy, celebrity rights, and/or sports franchises
• Legal issues related to branding across multi-media platforms

2. Spotlight on Green: “Greening” the Entertainment & Sports Industries?
Issues considered*:

• What is the relationship between the Oscars, the Philadelphia Eagles, Warner Music and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)?
• How are "green" partnerships and “green” legislation impacting the environment and the Entertainment and Sports Industries.
  

Derek Deyon, Thurgood Marshall School of Law (on left). Essay title: “Green Partnerships.” Robert Pearson, Southern University School of Law, on the right. Essay title: “Impact of Social Media.” They tied for first place and received a scholarship of $1,500 each. 
 

The third place winner was Melanie Davis (pictured), Chicago-Kent College of Law Essay title: “Impact of Blogging.”  She received a $1,000 scholarship.

Honorable mentions included Nicole Roberts,Thurgood Marshall School of Law, and Nadine Etienne, Fordham Law School, who received $500 each. Both wrote essays on “Green Partnerships.” Louise Cummings also awarded the “Students Helping Student Scholarship” (SHS) to Christina Callaway of Howard University School of Law.  Christina was selected based on a drawing from students at the law school who raises the most contributions to the SHS scholarship fund for the year. She received a $2,500 scholarship.
 

BESLA General Scholarship Fund
In addition to its Legal Writing Competition, BESLA provides financial assistance to aspiring lawyers through its BESLA Scholarship. Established in 1989, the BESLA Scholarship Fund annually has provided financial assistance to a law student from each of the five historically Black law schools in the United States: Howard University School of Law, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Southern University Law Center ,Florida A&M  University School of Law, and Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law.

Students possessing an interest in entertainment or sports law and maintaining a designated minimum grade point average and have been recommended by their Dean are awarded a scholarship.  

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