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Program
2015 Annual Meeting
Date: January 2 5, 2015
Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
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Daylong Section Programs and AALS Workshops:
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Sessions by Date & Time:
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AALS Registration
7:30 pm AALS Law and Film SeriesThe Classic Film Selection: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Registration
8:30 am - 10:15 am AALS Crosscutting ProgramDesigning a Regulatory System for the Age of Decentralized Virtual Currencies
8:30 am - 10:15 am AALS Hot Topic/Bridge Program - Beyond Michael Brown and Ferguson, Effective Responses to Police ForceBeyond Michael Brown and Ferguson, Effective Responses to Police Force
(A program selected from a competitive process by the AALS Committee on Special Programs for the Annual Meeting)
8:30 am - 10:15 am Conflict of LawsChoice-of-Law Methodology: Quo Vadis (Fifty Years Since Brainerd Currie's Death)
(Papers to be published in University of Illinois Law Review)
8:30 am - 10:15 am Constitutional Law, Co-Sponsored by Sections on Legal History and Women in Legal EducationLiberty-Equality: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction- Griswold v. Connecticut Then and Now
(Papers to be published in Yale Law Journal Online)
8:30 am - 10:15 am for the Law School DeanHigher Ed and Legal Ed: Partnering for Success in Challenging Times
8:30 am - 10:15 am International Legal Exchange, Co-Sponsored by Section for New Law ProfessorsScholarship, Teaching and Service Abroad: How to Add a Global Experience to Your Academic Resume
8:30 am - 10:15 am Law and EconomicsCausation
8:30 am - 10:15 am Law and the HumanitiesLaw and the Heroic
8:30 am - 10:15 am Teaching MethodsIncorporating Teaching Professional Identity into the Legal Education Curriculum
10:30 am - 12:15 pm AALS President's ProgramImplementing Innovation in Law Schools
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Africa and Comparative Law Joint ProgramComparative Law Expanded: Methodology and Public Law in Nontraditional Comparative Legal Systems
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Civil ProcedureThe Rising Bar to Federal Courts: Beyond Pleading and Discovery
(Papers to be published in Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Disability Law and Employment Discrimination Law Joint ProgramEmployment Discrimination and the Americans with Disabilities Act at 25 Years
(Papers to be published in Drake Law Review)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Environmental Law and State and Local Government Law Joint ProgramThe Law of Resilient Cities: State and Local Adaption to Climate Change
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Indian Nations and Indigenous PeoplesAfter Bay Mills: The Longevity of Tribal Sovereign Immunity
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Legislation & Law of the Political Process, Co-Sponsored by Section on Administrative LawLegislation/Regulation and the Core Curriculum
(Papers to be published in Journal of Legal Education)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm National Security LawNational Security Surveillance and the Rule of Law
(Papers to be published in Journal of National Security Law and Policy)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on TaxationIRS Oversight of Charitable and Other Exempt Organizations – Broken? Fixable?
(Papers to be published in Pittsburgh Tax Review)
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research LuncheonMeryl Streep’s Relationship with S.398 -- A Case Study
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Academic SupportASP a Roadmap at the Crossroad: How Academic Support Will Meet Today’s Varied Challenges
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Admiralty and Maritime Law and North American Cooperation Joint ProgramMaritime Border Threats? Canadian, Mexican and U.S. Maritime Cooperation on Drugs, Terror and the Environment
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Agricultural and Food LawFood Security and Climate Change
(Papers to be published in Environmental Law Reporter)
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm ContractsMind the Gap: Contracts, Technology, and Legal Gaps
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm International Human RightsGlobal Perspectives on Human Rights
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Law and the Social SciencesExtreme Empirical Methods
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Legal History and Women in Legal Education Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Section on Constitutional LawEngendering Equality: A Conversation with The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, and New Voices in Women’s Legal History
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Litigation, Co-Sponsored by Section on Civil ProcedureThe Future of Discovery
(Papers to be published in The Review of Litigation)
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Transactional Law and SkillsAgency Costs of Capitalism: The Governance Story of Public Companies vs. Private Companies
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm AALS Hot Topic/Bridge Program - Beyond the No Fly List: Terrorist Watchlists, the Terrorist Screening Center, and the Information Revolution Beyond the No Fly List: Terrorist Watchlists, the Terrorist Screening Center, and the Information Revolution
(A program selected from a competitive process by the AALS Committee on Special Program)
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm AALS Hot Topic/Bridge Program - Recent Developments in Human Capital InvestingRecent Developments in Human Capital Investing
(A program selected from a competitive process by the AALS Committee on Special Programs for the Annual Meeting)
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Aging and the Law, and Law, Medicine and Health Care Joint ProgramUnbefriended Elderly: Making Medical Treatment Decisions for Patients Without Surrogates
(Papers to be published in Journal of International Aging, Law & Policy)
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Balance in Legal EducationThe Future of Educating Effective Lawyers
(Papers to be published in University of Detroit Mercy Law Review)
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm EvidenceThe Effect(s) of the Economy on Science and Scientific Evidence
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Immigration Law and Minority Groups Joint ProgramThe 1965 Immigration Act: 50 Years of Race-Neutral (?) Immigration
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Law and South Asian StudiesThe Postcolonial Lives of Colonial Law in South Asia
(Papers to be published in American University International Law Review)
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Natural Resources and Energy LawSeismic Shifts in Energy: The Repercussions of Local Solar and Distributed Generation
(Papers to be published in Environmental Law Reporter)
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm ScholarshipThe Role Morality of the Legal Scholar
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Securities RegulationThe Future of Rule 10B-5
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity IssuesTransgender Equality: Prisons, Workplace, and Academic Institutions
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Trusts and EstatesLegal Reform and Grantors' Jurisdictional Options: The Implications of Freedom
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Administrative LawNew Voices in Administrative Law
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Animal LawKeeping it Current: Animal Law Examples Across the Curriculum
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Balance in Legal EducationPedagogy Promoting Practice — Ready Law Students: Lessons Learned from Recent Practice
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Children and the LawWorks-in-Progress
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Commercial and Related Consumer Law and Contracts Joint ProgramTeaching in the Contracts/Commercial/Consumer Law Curriculum: Challenges and Innovations
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Creditors' and Debtors' RightsInnovative Teaching Methods for Statutory Courses: Problem-Based Learning, The Case Study Method, and Adding Skills Instruction to Traditional Courses
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Employment Discrimination LawWorks-in-Progress
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Intellectual PropertyThinking Outside the Book
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm International LawAdding Foreign and Comparative Law to Your Course: Guidelines, Materials, and Practical Advice for New Law Professors
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Law and Mental DisabilityAdding Cases and Hypos Regarding Individuals With Physical and Mental Disabilities to Your Doctrinal Class
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Law, Medicine and Health CareHealth Law Works-in-Progress
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Legal Writing, Reasoning and ResearchLessons Learned: Know Thy Student - International Students in American Law Schools – and in Your Class!
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Registration
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Institutional AdvancementCollaborating During Times of Transition and Transformation
8:30 am - 10:15 am AALS Hot Topic/Bridge Program - The Tipping Point, How the Recent Migrant Children's Crisis Highlight the U.S.'s Systemic Failure to Address the Needs of Unaccompanied Children The Tipping Point, How the Recent Migrant Children's Crisis Highlight the U.S.'s Systemic Failure to Address the Needs of Unaccompanied Children
(A program selected from a competitive process)
8:30 am - 10:15 am AALS President's ProgramChallenges and Opportunities for U.S. and Chinese Legal Education
8:30 am - 10:15 am Business AssociationsThe Future of the Corporate Board
8:30 am - 10:15 am Civil RightsVoter Suppression, the 2014 Elections and Beyond
8:30 am - 10:15 am Clinical Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Section on Teaching MethodsIntegrating Clinical Pedagogy Across the Curriculum: Making It Work
8:30 am - 10:15 am Creditors' and Debtors' RightsThe Next Generation of Bankruptcy Reform
8:30 am - 10:15 am Criminal JusticeEmerging Issues in Plea Bargaining
8:30 am - 10:15 am Legal Writing, Reasoning and ResearchPodia Versus Pens: Is it Time to Dismantle the Two-Track System?
8:30 am - 10:15 am National Association for Law Placement ProgramFull-time, Long-term, Bar Passage Required: Understanding the New Legal Job Market
8:30 am - 10:15 am Part-Time Division Programs, Co-Sponsored by Section on Student ServicesBlowing Up Part Time Programs As We Know Them: Providing an Authentic Legal Education
8:30 am - 10:15 am Property LawThe Place and Scope of Economic Analysis within Competing Conceptions of Property
(Papers to be published in Texas A&M University Law Review)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm AALS Committee on Curriculum Issues ProgramTeaching to the New Class
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Agency, Partnership, LLC's and Unincorporated AssociationsBringing Numbers into Basic and Advanced Business Associations Courses: How and Why to Teach Accounting, Finance, and Tax
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Commercial and Related Consumer LawEmerging Scholars in Commercial and Consumer Law
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Education LawThe Higher Education Act at 50
(Papers to be published in Kentucky Law Journal)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Family and Juvenile LawThe Future of Marriage
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Federal CourtsThe Role of History in the Federal Courts Canon
(Papers to be published in Notre Dame Law Review)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Insurance LawThe Relationship between Insurance and Legal Regulation
10:30 am - 12:15 pm International LawThe Influence of International Law on Government Decisionmaking
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Post-Graduate Legal EducationThe Exploding Post-Graduate Degree: Alternative Degrees, Online Degrees and Economics
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Poverty LawWorking But Poor: Understanding and Confronting the Working Poor Phenomenon
(Papers to be published in Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Professional ResponsibilityThe 21st Century Lawyer’s Evolving Ethical Duty of Competence
(Papers to be published in ABA Journal of the Professional Lawyer)
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Association LuncheonAcademic Freedom and Legal Scholarship
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm AALS Crosscutting ProgramThe More Things Change…: Exploring Solutions to Persisting Discrimination in Legal Academia
(Papers to be published in The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law)
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm AALS Hot Topic/Bridge Program - Public Use Since KeloPublic Use Since Kelo
(A program selected from a competitive process by the AALS Committee on Special Programs for the Annual Meeting)
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm AALS President's ProgramAcademic Freedom for the Next 100 Years
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Children and the LawDead Upon Birth: The Inter-Generational Cycle of Thwarted Lives in America's Poorest Neighborhoods
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm East Asian Law & SocietyThe Current State of East Asian Legal Education, Research, and Related Activities in U.S. Law Schools: Accomplishments and Future Challenges in the Current Legal Education Environment
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Election LawThe Voting Rights Act at 50
(Papers to be published in Election Law Journal)
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm for New Law ProfessorsBehind the Veil: Learning Teaching Techniques from the Best
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm RemediesStructural Reform Litigation at 60
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm TaxationTaxation, Inequality, and Social Mobility
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm AALS Academic Leadership ProgramThe Opportunities of Law School Leadership: Nurturing the Diverse Leaders Our Schools Need for the 21st Century
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm AALS Hot Topic/Bridge Program - Citizens Invited: Scholars and Professors in the Campaign Finance WarsCitizens Invited: Scholars and Professors in the Campaign Finance Wars
(A program selected from a competitive process by the AALS Committee on Special Programs for the Annual Meeting)
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Administrative LawNot Your Parents' Administrative Law Class
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Alternative Dispute Resolution, Co-Sponsored by Section on Law and Mental DisabilityDesigning Dispute Resolution Systems for Special Education Disputes
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Intellectual PropertyIP in DC: The Nuts, Bolts, and Duct Tape of Reform
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Jewish Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Islamic LawReligious Beliefs and Political Agendas: What Role Should Faith Play in the Public Square
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Law and Sports, Co-Sponsored by Section on Labor Relations and Employment LawLocker Rooms and the Law of the Workplace: Bullying, Hazing and Harassment in Professional Sports
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Law Libraries and Legal InformationShould We Be Teaching Law Practice Technology?
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Pro-Bono & Public Service OpportunitiesThe Bridge to Practice: Law School Incubator and Fellowship/Bridge-to-Practice Programs as Pathways to Public Service
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Torts and Compensation SystemsTort Law and a Healthier Society
5:45 pm - 7:00 pm for New Law ProfessorsPotential and Pitfalls: Harnessing Your Teaching to Inform Your Scholarship
8:00 pm AALS Law and Film SeriesThe Documentary Film Selection: Hot Coffee (2011)
7:00 am - 5:00 pm AALS Registration
8:30 am - 5:00 pm AALS Academic SymposiumCongressional Dysfunction and Executive Lawmaking During the Obama Administration
(Papers to be published jointly by Chicago-Kent Law Review and the American University Law Review)
8:30 am - 3:00 pm AALS Committee on Libraries and TechnologyNowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: The Reality of Being a Law Library Director in Times of Great Opportunity and Significant Challenges
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Agricultural Law, Environmental Law, Natural Resources and Energy Law Joint Field TripAchieving Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay: Lessons for the Nation
8:30 am - 10:15 am Art LawAfter the Monuments Men: Nazi-Era Art, Modern Legal Problems
8:30 am - 10:15 am Employee Benefits and Executive CompensationRetirement Policy: Incremental v. Fundamental Reform
8:30 am - 10:15 am European Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Economic Globalization and GovernanceThe Future of EU-US Trade Relations: Assessing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(Papers to be published in Columbia Journal of European Law)
8:30 am - 10:15 am JurisprudenceSam Scheffler: Traditions, Value and Law
8:30 am - 10:15 am Law and ReligionHow (Not to) Provide Statutory Accommodations for Religion
8:30 am - 10:15 am Mass Communication LawNet Neutrality: Where Does the FCC Go From Here?
8:45 am - 4:30 pm Institutional AdvancementCollaborating During Times of Transition and Transformation
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Socio-EconomicsSocio-Economics: Good Research That Does Good
9:00 am - 4:30 pm Student ServicesRebooting Legal Education in Response to Market Demands: Providing the Right Services for Our Students
10:30 am - 12:15 pm BiolawEbola and the Law
(Papers to be published in Journal of Biosecurity, Biosafety and Biodefense Law)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Constitutional LawPerspectives on Federal Power Under the Reconstruction Amendments
(Papers to be published in University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Labor Relations and Employment Law, Co-Sponsored by Sections on Socio-Economics and Women in Legal EducationEmotions at Work: The Employment Relationship During An Age of Anxiety
(Papers to be published in Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Law School Administration and FinanceDifferential Affordability: Understanding the Net Cost of Law School
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Minority GroupsTenure, Austerity, and Academic Freedom
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Prelegal Education and Admission to Law SchoolMerit Scholarship Policies and the Impact on our Classes and Legal Education
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Socio-Economics Boxed LuncheonSocio-Economics and Feminism: What Does the Minimum Wage Have to Do with Reproductive Rights?
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm AALS Advisory Committee on Global Engagement ProgramNew Challenges and Opportunities in Globalizing Legal Education
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm AALS Crosscutting ProgramAnita F. Hill, Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, and a Screening of the Film “Anita”
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm AALS Crosscutting ProgramThe Fifty Years' War: Can Legislation Ameliorate Poverty?
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Continuing Legal EducationDigitally Global Part II: The Role of Digital Technology in the Rise of CLE's Focus Upon Global Lawyering
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Criminal JusticeReprioritizing Accuracy as the Primary Goal of the Criminal Justice Process
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Graduate Programs for Non-U.S. LawyersNot Just a Cash Cow: Meeting the Needs of Non-U.S. Lawyers and Law Students
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Law and AnthropologyLegislating Belonging
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Law and InterpretationRichard Posner and Stanley Fish: Revisiting Interpretation
8:45 am - 4:00 pm Section on International Law Field TripTrip to the United Nations
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