Sessions Information

  • January 7, 2026
    4:10 PM - 5:25 PM
    Session Type: AALS Programs
    Session Capacity: N/A
    Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside
    Room: Canal
    Floor: Third Floor

Sessions Description

  • Co-authors will present key findings from, and facilitate a panel discussion around, recent research on women attorneys in higher education leadership, which aimed to benchmark the number of women attorneys in higher education leadership positions; identify characteristics and circumstances that make women lawyers successful in higher education leadership; identify structural and cultural obstacles to the advancement of women attorneys into higher education leadership; and provide insight into what universities, leaders, and women attorneys can do to promote and support women lawyers into higher education leadership.
Session Speakers
Penn State Dickinson Law
Speaker

Association of American Law Schools
Speaker

University of Kansas School of Law
Speaker

Barnard College
Speaker

University of Tennessee Winston College of Law
Moderator

Session Fees
  • AALS Research Collaboration: Women Attorneys in Higher Education Leadership: $0.00