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The AALS is sponsoring the seventh Annual Mid-Year Meeting will include an offering of three professional development programs, to be held June 7-12, 2009 in Long Beach, California.  You may choose to register for the two workshops or conference separately. The Mid-Year Meeting includes:

Conference on Business Associations: Taking Stock of the Field and Corporate Social Accountability

Workshop on Transactional Law

Workshop on Work Law

Conference on Business Associations

Why Attend

Since the last AALS Conference on Business Associations in 1998, business, law, and legal education have all undergone profound change, rendering the field of business associations teaching and scholarship an even more robust and exciting one.  Significant changes in business and law have included high-profile corporate failures and scandals in the U.S. and abroad; rapidly growing numbers of new, unincorporated enterprises; expanding globalization of business and capital market activities; increasing influence of private equity and the privatization of companies seeking shelter from new legislation such as the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002; and heightened focus on corporate governance, shareholder voice, environmental and other forms of sustainability, and international human rights. Likewise, law and legal education have witnessed equally significant changes during this same time that impact teaching and scholarship in the business associations area.  Some of those changes include new reforms in legal education being spurred by the recent Carnegie study; advances in pedagogy gained from legal education’s more vigorous engagement with teaching and