Writing

Playwriting has always been my favorite writing style, seeing the characters and scenes I envision in my mind flow out of my pen directly onto my paper so my reader can imagine the same setting down to the cracks in the sidwalks has always enticed me as a writer. 

This particular play was one that started on the back of my legal pad as I sat observing a peer court trial. I later wrote for a class assignment and decided to submit it to Scholastic where it recently received a gold key. 

I had intially written this essay as a critical piece discussing the importance of due proccess as a legal principle in response to the prompt posed by the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review HS Essay Competition which asked: Given the importance of due process as a safeguard against governmental overreach, discuss how governments should balance the need for effective governance with the protection of individual rights granted by due process. Do governments ever have a right to limit individual due process? When, if ever, should due process protections yield to government claims of necessity?