IAGA-Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award
IAGA
Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award
This $1,000 award honors the memory of Shannon Bybee, a Founder and President of the International Association of Gaming Attorneys. Mr. Bybee had a distinguished career as a private attorney, a state gaming regulator, a gaming industry executive and a pioneering instructor in casino operations and gaming law.
The scholarship will be awarded annually, beginning in 2006, at the annual meeting of the IAGA to the law school student or graduate who has produced the outstanding paper on a subject in the field of gaming law in the preceding school year. (The inaugural award in 2006 will encompass student papers completed in both the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years.)
To be eligible for the award, the student must have created the paper under the direction of a law school instructor who is an IAGA member. The instructor must certify the paper as the best created by a student in any gaming law class at the law school. One paper may be submitted from a student in each gaming law course taught during the preceding year.
The paper must be no shorter than 3,000 words, exclusive of footnotes, and no longer than 5,000 words; meet the technical standards for format and footnoting established by the IAGA Shannon Bybee Scholarship Committee; and recommend an improvement to gaming law or enhance the understanding of gaming law.
The papers will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- • Quality of presentation.
- • Quality of footnoting.
- • Depth of research.
- • Novelty or importance of subject matter.
- • Value to the gaming law practitioner or gaming control official.
- • Value to the study of gaming law.
The processing of the certified papers will be as follows:
- 1. Each paper and its certification from the student’s or graduate’s gaming law instructor must be received by the IAGA Shannon Bybee Scholarship Committee by the person at the place and by the deadline determined by the Committee.
- 2. The papers, without any personal identification, will be submitted to the IAGA Shannon Bybee Scholarship Committee members.
- 3. The three papers that receive the highest collective score will be submitted to a committee that is headed by Peter Bernhard, the Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission and a long-time colleague of Shannon Bybee, and whose members are IAGA law school instructors from schools that are not represented by those three papers. The writer of the paper selected by that committee will be awarded the $1,000.
- 4. The IAGA Publications Committee shall include the winning paper in the next succeeding newsletter. Other certified papers also may be published in the IAGA newsletter at the discretion of the Publications Committee.