PL&B’s Student Essay Competition 2022
Congratulations to the winners of PL&B’s Student Essay Competition 2022:
- Do under 25s care about privacy?
- By Sahra Wouters Okeili, Law student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- The judges chose Sahra’s essay for the way in which she presented the privacy perspectives of under-25s explaining that they care but in a different way from older people
- Has the EU General Protection Data Regulation (GDPR) been a success?
- By Pablo Quero Cisneros, Business Management student at University of Essex, UK
- The judges chose Pablo’s essay for engaging with the title in a nuanced way, showing his research with 31 footnotes, and raising the question: When will the GDPR be considered a success?
(click titles to read the essays)
They have each won a place at PL&B’s prestigious 35th Anniversary International Conference, Winds of Change, which includes:
- Registration for all 3 days - 4 to 6 July 2022 at St. John’s College, Cambridge, UK.
- Accommodation on Monday 4 July and Tuesday 5 July.
- All meals at the conference.
- Reasonable travel expenses to and from the conference, from anywhere in the world.
- Acknowledgement at the conference.
- The possibility of being published in PL&B Reports and/or PL&B's website
- 1 year subscription to PL&B International & UK Reports - PDF and online formats.
The Competition
You are invited to submit 1,500 words in English discussing one of the following questions:
- Has the EU General Protection Data Regulation (GDPR) been a success?
- Do under 25s care about privacy?
- Privacy and Smart Tech: Mission Impossible?
Who is Eligible?
- The competition is open to any Bachelor’s or Master’s degree student in any subject and in any country.
Rules
- The competition is free to enter.
- Applicants can be students of any subject and country studying for a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
- Applicants must inform us of their course of study and university or college.
- Applicants must be aged 18 or over.
- Essays must be in English and a maximum of 1,500 words, including the title.
- Essays must be submitted in Microsoft Word.
- References to sources should be in footnotes using standard numbers.
- Essays must be submitted from the applicant's university or college e-mail address
- The PL&B Editorial Team will have the discretion to publish the articles in PL&B Reports and/or on PL&B’s website.
Criteria
Assessment will be based on:
- Originality and independent perspective
- Clarity
- Whether the essay addresses the question
- Strength of argument
- Whether the research supports the proposition
- Keeping to a maximum of 1,500 words, including the title. Footnotes (if used) will not count towards the overall word count.
Assessment Process
All the essays will be reviewed by the PL&B Editorial Team consisting of Stewart Dresner, Founder and Chief Executive; Laura Linkomies, Editor; Tom Cooper, Deputy Editor and Merrill Dresner, Assistant Editor.
Timetable
- 6 May – Deadline for submission of essays
- 1 June – Announcement of winners
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@privacylaws.com.
Sponsored by:
* Sponsorship enables PL&B to offer the winner conference registration, accommodation and travel. Sponsors do not assess the essays nor have access to the applicants’ personal data.