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2014 Annual Meeting

Date(s):

January 2 — 5, 2014

Venue:

New York Hilton Midtown

1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019

Website:

http://www.aals.org/am2014

Fee(s):

This event has a fee

Description:

Looking Forward: Legal Education in the 21st Century

As the legal academy’s learned society, AALS will engage with the challenges and criticisms facing law schools and legal education.

Questions about the value and future of legal education have repeatedly dominated academic conversations and commanded news headlines in recent years. Recognizing that criticism is not crisis is the first step to engaging productively in these challenges in an effective way. Our schools are not homogenous, and neither will the solutions be, but there are fundamental tensions that all law schools experience and much to be learned from the exchange of strategies and ideas. By looking at the shared challenges facing legal education in an organized and comprehensive manner, we can address the issues that we all encounter as educators and members of the academy such as technology in the classroom, distance education, the expansion of non-JD graduate degrees, access to legal education, diversity in the classroom and faculty, the provision of legal services in a broad way, globalization, the cost of legal education, and many other relevant topics.

As we consider what the future holds for legal education and the academy, this annual meeting will play a crucial role in encouraging active engagement and debate. The annual meeting will provide opportunities to map out effective strategies tailored to the particular needs, resources, and students of different schools. It will also serve as an important step towards engaging with fellow faculty members in shaping legal education and its future leaders.

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6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center
Type: Resume

Short description is not available at this time.
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration

Short description is not available at this time.
7:30 pm AALS Law and Film Series
Type: AALS Programs

The Classic Film Selections
7:00 am - 8:30 am Special Meeting and Continental Breakfast for Beginning Law School Teachers
Type: AALS Programs

Short description is not available at this time.
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center
Type: Resume

Short description is not available at this time.
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration

Short description is not available at this time.
7:30 am - 8:30 am Twelve Step Meeting
Type: AALS Programs

Short description is not available at this time.
8:00 am - 4:30 pm CANCELLED - Environmental Law and Natural Resources and Energy Law Joint Field Trip
Type: Cancelled Programs

Field Trip – Disaster Management, Climate Adaption, and Building Resilience: The Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
8:30 am - 10:15 am AALS Hot Topic/Bridge Program - After the JD: A Look at the Evolving Careers of Lawyers Who Entered Practice in 2000
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs

Short description is not available at this time.
8:30 am - 10:15 am AALS Site Evaluators Workshop
Type: AALS Programs

Short description is not available at this time.
8:30 am - 10:15 am Administrative Law
Type: Section Call for Papers

New Voices in Administrative Law
8:30 am - 10:15 am Animal Law
Type: Section Programs

Ag-Gag Laws, Animals, Agriculture and Speech
8:30 am - 10:15 am Antitrust and Economic Regulation
Type: Section Programs

Old Agency in a New Bottle? Contemplating the 100th Birthday of the Federal Trade Commission
8:30 am - 10:15 am Civil Rights, Co-Sponsored by Sections on Employment Discrimination and Minority Groups
Type: Section Call for Papers

50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Examining its Future (Part I)
8:30 am - 10:15 am Comparative Law
Type: Section Call for Papers

Works-in-Progress Program in Comparative Law
Materials: Cohen
8:30 am - 10:15 am Constitutional Law
Type: Section Call for Papers

The Importance of Constitutionalism Part I (This program will be continued at 3:30 p.m.)
8:30 am - 10:15 am Economic Globalization and Governance
Type: Section Call for Papers

Comparative Corporate Governance Meets Demands for Greater Diversity: In Favor of Hard, Soft or No Legal Supports for Enhancing Board Diversity?
8:30 am - 10:15 am International Law
Type: Section Call for Papers

International Law-Making and the United Nations
8:30 am - 10:15 am Law and Anthropology
Type: Section Programs

The Language of the Law in Indigenous Rights
8:30 am - 10:15 am Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research
Type: Section Programs

Reading Comprehension in the Age of Twitter: Teaching Law Students to Read for Meaning and Materiality