{"id":538,"date":"2015-04-15T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=538"},"modified":"2020-03-20T23:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T23:12:50","slug":"alumnus-wins-third-prize-in-national-essay-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/alumnus-wins-third-prize-in-national-essay-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus wins third prize in national essay competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law School alumnus Alex Courtnage has been awarded third prize in a national student essay competition run by <em>The Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year the annual competition marked the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta with the essay title: \u2018Is Magna Carta more honoured in the breach?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Alex, who graduated from Kent with a degree in European Legal Studies in 2014, was awarded a prize of \u00a31,500 for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/law\/article4385754.ece\">1,000 word essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The competition, sponsored by One Essex Court, was open to all students registered with an education body based in the UK, and to trainee solicitors or pupil barristers.<\/p>\n<p>Alex is currently studying for an LLM in Transnational Law at King&#8217;s College London.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/alumnus-wins-third-prize-in-national-essay-competition\/&amp;t=Alumnus wins third prize in national essay competition' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Alumnus wins third prize in national essay competition%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/alumnus-wins-third-prize-in-national-essay-competition\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/alumnus-wins-third-prize-in-national-essay-competition\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/alumnus-wins-third-prize-in-national-essay-competition\/&amp;title=Alumnus wins third prize in national essay competition' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/alumnus-wins-third-prize-in-national-essay-competition\/&amp;title=Alumnus wins third prize in national essay competition' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law School alumnus Alex Courtnage has been awarded third prize in a national student essay competition run by The Times. This year the annual competition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/alumnus-wins-third-prize-in-national-essay-competition\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38005,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,124,91617],"tags":[146517,146516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}