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2012 Annual Meeting

Date: January 4 — 8, 2012
Location: The George Washington University Law School

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6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AALS Exhibit Hall Open House - "The Meeting Place"
Type: Exhibit Events
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center
Type: Resume
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm American University Washington College of Law Reception for all Meeting Registrants
Type: Member School Events
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center
Type: Resume
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration
7:30 am - 8:30 am Twelve Step Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:45 am - 5:00 pm Joint Field Trip of Sections on Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law-Waitlist
Type: Section Field Trips
8:00 am - 1:00 pm Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities Service Project - D.C. Central Kitchen
Type: Section Programs
8:00 am - 5:00 pm AALS Exhibit Hall Open House - "The Meeting Place"
Type: Exhibit Events
8:45 am - 5:00 pm AALS Workshop on the Future of the Legal Profession and Legal Education: Changes in Law Practice: Implications for Legal Education
Type: Day-long Workshops
8:45 am - 5:00 pm Socio-Economics
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 10:30 am Employment Discrimination
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Crosscutting Program - The Law and Science of Trustworthy Elections: Facing the Challenges of Internet Voting and Other E-Voting Technologies
Type: AALS Crosscutting Programs
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Jewish Law
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Torts and Compensation Systems
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Women in Legal Education
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 1:00 pm Poverty Law Service Project - Martha's Table
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 4:30 pm Student Services
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Disability Law
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 5:00 pm Institutional Advancement
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 5:00 pm International Law and North American Cooperation Joint Program
Type: Section Programs
9:15 am - 5:00 pm Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research Field Trip
Type: Section Field Trips
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Crosscutting Program - The Antibalkanization Turn in Antidiscrimination Law and Theory?
Type: AALS Crosscutting Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Hot Topic Program: Occupy Wall Street as a Transformative Social Movement: Its Meaning and Prospects for the Future
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
11:40 am - 1:00 pm Socio-Economics Luncheon
Type: Section Programs
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Institutional Advancement Luncheon and Business Meeting
Type: Section Programs
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Labor Relations and Employment Law Luncheon
Type: Section Programs
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Law Libraries Luncheon
Type: Section Programs
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Student Services Luncheon
Type: Section Programs
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm AALS Workshop on the Future of the Legal Profession and Legal Education: Changes in Law Practice: Implications for Legal Education Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Minority Groups Luncheon
Type: Section Programs
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Concurrent Session (Alumni Affairs Track) - CLE and Alumni Affairs Programs Working Together, Co-Sponsored by Section on Continuing Legal Education
Type: Section Programs
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Business Associations
Type: Section Call for Papers
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Constitutional Law
Type: Section Programs
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Education Law and Law and Sports Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
Type: Section Call for Papers
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Education Law and Law and Sports Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues - Panel #2 Single-Sex Education
Type: Section Call for Papers
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Education Law and Law and Sports Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues - Panel #3 Bullying/Harassment
Type: Section Call for Papers
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Education Law and Law and Sports Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues- Panel #1 Athletics
Type: Section Call for Papers
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Labor Relations and Employment Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Type: Section Call for Papers
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Law Libraries
Type: Section Call for Papers
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Property Law and Real Estate Transactions Joint Program
Type: Section Call for Papers
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm First Meeting of AALS House of Representatives
Type: AALS Programs
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Balance in Legal Education Business Meeting
Type: Section Programs
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm International Human Rights Business Meeting
Type: Section Programs
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm International Law Business Meeting - CANCELLED
Type: Section Programs
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research Business Meeting
Type: Section Programs
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Women in Legal Education Business Meeting
Type: Section Programs
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm AALS Reception for Law Schools' Teachers of the Year and Emeriti Faculty Members
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 pm - 12:00 pm AALS Inaugural Law and Film Series
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 8:30 am Federal Courts Continental Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 8:30 am Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 8:30 am Legislation & Law of the Political Process Continental Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 8:30 am Poverty Law Continental Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 8:30 am Property Law Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 8:30 am Special Meeting and Continental Breakfast for Beginning Law School Teachers
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 8:30 am State and Local Government Law Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center
Type: Resume
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration
7:30 am - 8:30 am Twelve Step Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 am - 5:00 pm AALS Exhibit Hall Open House - "The Meeting Place"
Type: Exhibit Events
8:30 am - 10:15 am Agency, Partnerships, LLC’s and Unincorporated Business Associations
Type: Section Call for Papers
8:30 am - 10:15 am Aging and the Law
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Balance in Legal Education
Type: Section Call for Papers
8:30 am - 10:15 am Civil Procedure
Type: Section Call for Papers
8:30 am - 10:15 am For the Law School Dean
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Hot Topic Program: The ESA Implementation Tipping Point: Can the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Keep Up with Multiple New Demands?
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am International Human Rights
Type: Section Call for Papers
8:30 am - 10:15 am Jurisprudence
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Law and Mental Disability, Co-Sponsored by Section on Disability Law
Type: Section Call for Papers
8:30 am - 10:15 am Law and Religion
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Mass Communication Law
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities
Type: Section Call for Papers
8:30 am - 12:15 pm AALS Site Evaluators Workshop
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 4:00 pm Institutional Advancement
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 10:00 am Posters Sponsored by Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting
Type: Poster Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Posters Sponsored by Section on Africa
Type: Poster Sessions
10:30 am - 11:30 am Posters Sponsored by Section on Clinical Legal Education
Type: Poster Sessions
10:30 am - 11:30 am Posters Sponsored by Section on Teaching Methods
Type: Poster Sessions
10:30 am - 12:15 pm AALS Committee on Research Program
Type: AALS Committee Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Antitrust and Economic Regulation and Law and Economics Joint Program
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Biolaw and Defamation and Privacy Joint Program
Type: Section Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Children and the Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Mass Communication Law
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm for the Law School Dean (Deans-only program. Attendance is open only to Deans and Interim Deans of AALS member and fee paid law schools)
Type: Section Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Hot Topic Program: Our Intensifying National Debate: Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Hot Topic Program: The Dictatorship of Law: The Khodorkovsky Case, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law in Russia
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Law and the Humanities
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Minority Groups, Co-Sponsored by Section on Africa
Type: Section Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Natural Resources Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Environmental Law
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Professional Responsibility
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Securities Regulation
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Taxation and Trusts and Estates Joint Program
Type: Section Programs
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Association of American Law Schools Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm AALS Presidential Program I – Law School Faculty Demographics and Law School Finances
Type: AALS Programs
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm AALS Presidential Program II – Threats to Academic Freedom: Domestic and Universal/Internal and External
Type: AALS Programs
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm AALS Presidential Program III – Academic Duty and Public Service
Type: AALS Programs
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Posters Sponsored by Section on Academic Support
Type: Poster Sessions
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance Program
Type: AALS Committee Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm AALS Scholarly Paper Presentation
Type: AALS Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Africa
Type: Section Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Commercial and Related Consumer Law
Type: Section Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Crosscutting Program: Preventing Legal Problems
Type: AALS Crosscutting Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Family and Juvenile Law
Type: Section Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Hot Topic Program: The Singular Legacy of Professor Derrick Bell
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Hot Topic Program: Politics, Ethics, and the Supreme Court: The Present and Future of Supreme Court Recusal
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Internet and Computer Law
Type: Section Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Law and Interpretation, Co-Sponsored by Section on Legal Writing Reasoning and Research
Type: Section Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Law and South Asian Studies
Type: Section Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Litigation, Co-Sponsored by Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure
Type: Section Call for Papers
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Part-Time Division Programs
Type: Section Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Prelegal Education and Admission to Law School
Type: Section Programs
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Teaching Methods
Type: Section Programs
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm AALS Gala Reception
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 8:30 am Africa Continental Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 8:30 am Law, Medicine and Health Care Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 8:30 am Women in Legal Education Continental Breakfast
Type: Section Breakfasts
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center
Type: Resume
7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration
8:00 am - 3:00 pm AALS Exhibit Hall Open House - "The Meeting Place"
Type: Exhibit Events
8:30 am - 10:15 am AALS Hot Topic Workshop on Political Crises and Constitutionalism: War and Money - Plenary Session I: Money
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Administrative Law
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Agricultural Law
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Art Law
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Creditors' and Debtors’ Rights
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Islamic Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Family and Juvenile Law
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Law and Anthropology
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 10:15 am Law, Medicine and Health Care, Co-Sponsored by Section on Clinical Legal Education
Type: Section Call for Papers
8:30 am - 10:15 am National Security Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Mass Communication Law
Type: Section Call for Papers
8:30 am - 10:15 am Remedies
Type: Section Programs
8:30 am - 12:00 pm AALS Hot Topic Workshop on Political Crises and Constitutionalism: War and Money
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 12:15 pm International Association of Law Schools Program
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 5:15 pm Informal Networking Sessions
Type: AALS Programs
8:45 am - 5:00 pm AALS Workshop on Academic Support - Got ASP?: Leveraging Academic Support Principles and Programs to Meet Strategic Institutional Goals
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 12:00 pm AALS Hot Topic Workshop on Political Crises and Constitutionalism: War and Money - Plenary Session II: War
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Alternative Dispute Resolution, Co-Sponsored by Sections on Civil Procedure and Litigation
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Civil Rights
Type: Section Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Committee on Law Libraries and Technology
Type: AALS Committee Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Environmental Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Natural Resources Law
Type: Section Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Evidence
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services
Type: Section Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Hot Topic Program: Alternatives to Mass Incarceration: Taking Advantage of the Budget Crisis
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Hot Topic Program: Church Autonomy, the Ministerial Exception, and Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Intellectual Property
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Legislation and the Law of the Political Process
Type: Section Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law
Type: Section Call for Papers
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Post-Graduate Legal Education
Type: Section Programs
10:30 am - 12:15 pm Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
Type: Section Programs
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm AALS Program: Conversation with Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Supreme Court of the United States
Type: AALS Programs
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Clinical Legal Education Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm AALS Workshop on Academic Support Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm AALS Committee on Research Program
Type: AALS Committee Programs
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Animal Law
Type: Section Programs
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Clinical Legal Education and Poverty Law Joint Program
Type: Section Call for Papers
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Contracts
Type: Section Call for Papers
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Co-Sponsored by Section on State and Local Government Law
Type: Section Programs
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Federal Courts
Type: Section Programs
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm International Legal Exchange
Type: Section Programs
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Legal History
Type: Section Programs
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Scholarship
Type: Section Programs
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Hot Topic Program: A World Without DOMA: Bankruptcy, Immigration and Tax Implications
Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Admiralty and Maritime Law
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Comparative Law
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Conflict of Laws
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Criminal Justice, Co-Sponsored by Section on Women in Legal Education
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Graduate Programs for Non-U.S. Lawyers, Co-Sponsored by Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Type: Section Call for Papers
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Immigration Law
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15pm Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Insurance Law
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Law and the Social Sciences
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm New Law Professors, Co-Sponsored by Section on Teaching Methods
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm State and Local Government Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Law and Religion
Type: Section Programs
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Transactional Law and Skills
Type: Section Call for Papers
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm Academic Support Business Meeting
Type: Section Programs
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Second Meeting of AALS House of Representatives
Type: AALS Programs
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm AALS Reception for Legal Educators from Law Schools Outside the United States
Type: AALS Programs
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Twelve Step Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm AALS Inaugural Law and Film Series
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 9:00 am AALS Workshop and Continental Breakfast for 2011 and 2012 Section Officers
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 10:00 am AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration
7:00 am - 12:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center
Type: Resume
7:30 am - 8:30 am Twelve Step Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:45 am Criminal Justice
Type: Section Call for Papers
9:00 am - 10:45 am Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services
Type: Section Call for Papers
9:00 am - 10:45 am Law Libraries
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 10:45 am Minority Groups
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 10:45 am Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
Type: Section Programs
9:00 am - 10:45 am Women in Legal Education
Type: Section Call for Papers
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research
Type: Section Call for Papers

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