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Section on Balance in Legal Education
Date Chartered: 5/22/2007 Purpose:
The Section on Balance in Legal Education seeks to investigate, discover, and inspire those practices that support the well-being of law students, lawyers, and judges. The Section encourages research into the conditions that allow students and practitioners to thrive, both personally and professionally, and informs the membership of the Association of American Law Schools about the results of that research. Among other things, Section activities explore the importance of health, compassion, integrity, and ethics to the effective study and practice of law. The Section promotes continual re-examination of pedagogical practices, program content, and institutional priorities to promote the long-term best interests of law students and the constituencies they will serve.
Welcome to the “Balance” Section Page,
I am the Section Chair of 2018. This is our eleventh year of existence, and we welcome your help in cultivating our section and membership. The section’s executive committee is well underway with its
planning for the 2018 year. For the
Annual Meeting in January 2019, our Program Committee is planning two programs,
each related to the theme of AALS President Wendy Perdue’s tenure: “Building
Bridges.” Building Bridges is an apt
theme for our section as we contemplate and construct connections of all sorts
– within ourselves, with others, between work and life, to name a few. At the January 2018 Annual Meeting, we
presented two programs on positive psychology approaches and their effect on
legal education, lawyering, and access to justice. You may view the podcasts on these by
clicking here. This year, we will continue to put out our “Equipoise”
newsletter, which has a beautiful template created years ago by Professor Amy
Bushaw. We hope to have two issues this year. We also will continue with our Topic Calls,
which are conference call presentations by experts. We hope to have one each semester. Look
out for our announcements and how to dial in.
Along with Topic Calls, we hope to institute our Works-in-Progress
Calls, which will ask audience members to review and provide feedback to the
presenter’s ongoing writing
project.
We also hope to launch two initiatives that have been in the
works: (1) an oral history project, which we will start by assembling some of
the founding members of this section, and (2) a mentoring project.
For all of these, we need help from the membership. Volunteering to jump in is a great way to
learn about our section and the issues that matter to it. Thanks for reading this far into my letter. Don’t hesitate to get in touch. I may be reached at calvinp@hawaii.edu or at (808) 956-7474.
Aloha,
Calvin Pang
Officers
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Click Here to Log-In to the Section Member-Only Pages: https://connect.aals.org/balanceSection Officers: | Chair | Calvin Pang, University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law
Phone: (808) 956-7474
E-mail: calvinp@hawaii.edu
| | Chair-Elect | Peter H. Huang, University of Colorado Law School
Phone: (303) 492-4536
E-mail: peter.huang@colorado.edu
| | Secretary | Heidi K. Brown, Brooklyn Law School
Phone: (718) 532-2234
E-mail: heidi.brown@brooklaw.edu
| | Treasurer | | | Executive Committee | Debra Austin, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Phone: (303) 871-6205
E-mail: daustin@law.du.edu
Teresa K. Brostoff, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Phone: (412) 648-2364
E-mail: brostoff@pitt.edu
Meredith J. Duncan, University of Houston Law Center
Phone: (713) 743-2019
E-mail: mduncan@uh.edu
J. Lyn Entrikin, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law
Phone: (501) 324-9947
E-mail: jlentrikin@ualr.edu
D'lorah L. Hughes, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Phone: (949) 824-9809
E-mail: dhughes@law.uci.edu
Shari Motro, The University of Richmond School of Law
Phone: (804) 287-8923
E-mail: smotro@richmond.edu
Nancy A. Oliver, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Phone: (513) 556-0065
E-mail: nancy.oliver@uc.edu
Todd D. Peterson, The George Washington University Law School
Phone: (202) 994-1004
E-mail: tpeter@law.gwu.edu
Jarrod F. Reich, Georgetown University Law Center
Phone: 202-662-9875
E-mail: jarrod.reich@law.georgetown.edu
Richard C. Reuben, University of Missouri School of Law
Phone: (573) 884-5204
E-mail: reubenr@missouri.edu
Scott Rogers, University of Miami School of Law
Phone: (305) 284-5527
E-mail: srogers@law.miami.edu
Carrie Sperling, University of Wisconsin Law School
Phone: (608) 262-3646
E-mail: csperling@wisc.edu
Brittany M. Stringfellow-Otey, Pepperdine University School of Law
Phone: (213) 673-4831
E-mail: brittany.stringfellow@pepperdine.edu
Cassandra L. Thomas Roberts, North Carolina Central University School of Law
Phone: (919) 530-6612
E-mail: crober42@nccu.edu
Ron Tyler, Stanford Law School
Phone: (650) 723-2465
E-mail: rtyler@law.stanford.edu
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