Sam Cole, ’25, Receives Award for Employment Law Paper
Sam Cole, ’25, received one of two second-place awards in the Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition for his employment law paper.
The competition is sponsored by Jackson Lewis P.C. and administered by Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace. It recognizes the best legal writing in the field of labor and employment law among current law students. The second-place award comes with $1,000 scholarship.
Cole’s paper, “Bargaining in the Shadow of the EFAA,” explores the complex interplay between arbitration agreements in collective bargaining agreements and those in contracts with at-will employees under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFAA).
“I’m honored to receive second place in the Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition,” Cole said. “I’d like to thank Chicago-Kent’s Malin Institute for organizing the competition and Jackson Lewis P.C. for their generous support of student scholarship.”
This is the second award for Cole’s paper. Earlier this year, it received the 2025 Joseph T. McLaughlin Original Student Article Award from the International Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolution. The paper was published in the Journal of Dispute Resolution.