Laconia law student wins national disability-law writing competition

Krum Chuchev, a second year student at Franklin Pierce Law Center, recently won first place in the law practice category of The Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition. The national writing competition is sponsored by the Mercer University School of Law and the American Bar Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law.

The competition invites submissions in two categories, the essay category and the law practice category. Chuchev’s law practice submission included an appellate brief regarding an issue of the American with Disabilities Act.

Chuchev holds a PhD in physical chemistry from Dartmouth College and BS and MS degrees from Sophia University, Sophia, Bulgaria. While at Dartmouth, he served as a research assistant in the Nanomaterials Program and taught senior level physical chemistry courses. He is a 2007 recipient of one of Pierce Law’s Douglas J. Wood Chairman’s Scholarships for academic achievement. In 2005, he received the Filene Graduate Student Teaching Award, an honor given once a year to three graduate students.

The competition honors the work of the late Professor Adam Milani, a passionate advocate for disability rights, an accomplished legal scholar, and faculty member at the Mercer Law School.