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What is AALS, and Why Does It Matter for My Career? And How Do I Get the Most Out of the Annual Meeting?

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The Feature Film Selection: Reversal of Fortune

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The Future of the United Nations in the 21st Century

Lawyers as Professionals and as Citizens

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Exploring Governors Island and New York City's Resiliency Efforts

Walking Tour of Manhattan Public Art Installations

Challenges Facing the Legal Profession and Strategies to Address Them

Using Rounds about Teaching to Provide Peer Support and Learning Over the Course of a Career: Continuing Education for Teachers Who Educate Lawyers

Innovations in East Asian Law Schools and Collaborative Possibilities for US Law Schools

Is Immigration Law Administrative Law?

Law School Finances, Partnerships between U.S. and Overseas Law Schools, and Law Faculty and Student Overseas Inbound and Outbound Exchanges

Coercion, Exploitation, Consent to Sex, and Research Ethics: Honoring the Scholarship of Alan Wertheimer

Religious Responses to Same-Sex Marriage

The New Frontier in College Sports: The Professionalization of Amateurism

Best Practices for Supervising Seminar Papers and Other Scholarly Writings

The Future of Securities Regulation: Innovation, Regulation and Enforcement

Adaptive Leadership

It Takes a Village: Collaborative Ways to Promote Student Professionalism, Resiliency, and Leadership

A Conversation with the Honorable Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court

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Hot Topics

Expectations for East Asian Legal Studies in the United States

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Turmoil in the EU and Implications for Continental Law Schools: What We Can Learn

What Will and Should Happen to Affirmative Action after Fisher v Texas

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Successes and Challenges in the Struggle for LGBT Rights in Africa

Contract is King, But Can It Govern Its Realm?

Challenging Assumptions About Caregiving

Scholarly Engagement Post Tenure

Infraculture and Public-Private Partnerships: Legal Tools for Economic Recovery and Community Development

Civil Rights and Civil Movements in the 21st Century: Building Sustainable Movements for Social Change

Female Perspectives in Commercial and Consumer Law

Is Analytical Jurisprudence Conceptually Relevant to, and Illuminating of, Jewish Law?

Ethics in Criminal Practice -The Hardest Questions Today: A Conversation in Honor of Monroe Freedman

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Introducing Professional Identity Development into the Law School Curriculum

The Ethics and Practice of Community Engagement

New Voices in Administrative Law

Works-In-Progress for New Law School Teachers

Pedagogy for New Law School Teachers: What Every Law Professor Should Know About How Students Learn

Pedagogy for New Law School Teachers: Teaching Transactional Skills Using Interactive Methods in Doctrinal Classes: Flipped Class Rooms, Lab Courses, Drafting and More

First Meeting

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Topic: Leadership for Law Students and Lawyers

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Let’s Talk About Trigger Warnings: Best Practices in Teaching Tough Topics

Antitrust and the State

Impossible Realities, Infinite Loops and Movable Staircases: The Impact of Institutional Marginalization on the Tricky, Unpredictable, and Inconsistent Trajectory of the Non-Tenured Track Career

Conflicts Codifications, Domestic and International: Implications for the Third Restatement?

Braided Contracting and the Interplay of Formal and Informal Enforcement Strategies in Contract Relationships

International Environmental Law and the North-South Divide: At the Crossroads of Economic, Environmental, Human Rights, Energy, Food, Climate, and Sustainable Development Law

Honoring Daniel Meltzer

States In/Of Emergency and International Law

The ADA at 25: Implications for People with Mental Disabilities

Law Library Innovation: How Law Libraries are Adapting to New Standards and Institutional Challenges

The New Kids on the Block: Are you Equipped to Take Them on? Integrating Non-Traditional Populations into Law Schools

Hot Topics in Part-Time Legal Education

A First Report on New York's Pro Bono Scholars Program: Successes, Challenges and Suggestions for the Future

Regulation of Mortgage Lending

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Engaging Students in Real-World Problem Solving: An Interactive Workshop

Innovation and Evolution: Strategies and Insights for Deans in 2016

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Grappling With Campus Rape

Beyond Leg/Reg: Designing a Broader Regulatory Practice Curriculum

Finding Your Voice in the Legal Academy

Discussion of Potential Class Action Reforms with the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules

Predicting Trouble: Risk, Technology, and a Data-Driven Criminal Justice System

Reforming Law and Scholarship by Disciplinary Design

Election Law at the Local Level

Human Rights and Families

Local Laboratories of Workplace Regulation

Medicaid Challenges

The Dodd-Frank Act's Fifth Anniversary: Diversity and Inclusion in the Leadership of the Financial Services Sector

New Directions in Poverty Law

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Preserving Digital Scholarship - Harvard Library Innovation Lab's Perma.cc Project

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So You Want to Publish a Book?

Next Generation Sequencing, Precision Medicine, and the Future of Health Care

The Corporate Law and Economics Revolution 40 Years Later: The Impact of Economics and Finance Scholarship on Modern Corporate Law

Examining the Value of Clinical Education: Thinking Beyond Cost

On Resistance and Recognition

The Wounded Warrior Comes Home: Exploring the Impact of Disabled Veterans on Disability, Health, and Other Law and Policy

Reconciling Education Law, Policy and Governance Under Changing Leadership

Recruiting LL.M. Students: Promises, Expectations, Resources, and Realities

Environmental Futures: South Asia's Law and Policy Challenges

Congress and the Courts: A Conversation with the Chief Judge Bob Katzmann and Senator Chuck Schumer on Modern Statutes and the Interbranch Relationship

Advising Taxpayers in the 21st Century: Ethical Challenges

The Pedagogy of Procedure: Using Civil Procedure to Showcase Innovative Teaching Methods

MacPherson at 100: Perspectives on its Influence and Meaning

Sex and Death: Gender and Sexuality Matters in Trusts and Estates

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Science and the Law

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The Documentary Film Selection: The Hunting Ground (2015)

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Beyond Cellphone Evidence: Video Advocacy in Criminal Proceedings

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The AALS In Spite of Itself: How to Use the AALS for Professional Development Even If It Sometimes Makes You Mad

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Childhood Trauma: the Roles of Law, Society, and Institutions in Identifying, Addressing and Reducing Childhood Trauma

The State of the ACA After King v. Burwell

Human Rights at the Margins: The Refugee Crisis and Other Emergencies in a Transatlantic Perspective

The Intersection of Politics and Financial Regulation

Law School Rankings – Perspectives of US News, Princeton Review, and National Jurist

The Empirics of Legal Interpretation

Social Science Expertise in Law Schools: What is the Added Value?

The Philanthropic Sector and Radical Reform

What's Next For the LGBT Movement after the Marriage Cases: Defects in Anti-Discrimination Laws and Religious Freedom Challenges

Expanding the Role of Alumni in Admissions Recruitment

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The Modern Problem-Solving Court Movement: Taking Stock After 25 Years

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Broadening the Economic Debate

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Immigration and the 2016 Presidential Election: Campaign Rhetoric, Minority Voting, and Policy Possibilities

Preparing Professionals: Higher Education's Responses to the Demands of a Global Marketplace

Raising the Bar

Comparative Perspectives on Privacy Law

Peer-to-Peer Consumption: Emerging Legal Issues in the New Sharing Economy

Regulation of Appearance in the Workplace and the Meaning of Discrimination

Reforming the Hearsay Rule

Indian Tribes, Same-Sex Marriage, and LGBT Families

Insurance and Litigation: Risk and Incentives

Once More Unto the Breach: The Law & Policy of Data Breaches

Law and Images

National Security Law Challenges for the Next Administration

Becoming a Legal Scholar

Equity in the Federal Courts

Using Podcasts in the Media Mix to Increase Visibility of Faculty Members and Enhance the School Brand

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Socio-Economics and Public Service

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Incorporating Medical-Legal Partnership Into Your Law School's Triple Aim: Education, Research, and Community Engagement

Responding to the Money Bail Crisis

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A Roundtable on Its Significance and Implications for the Future

Update on the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services

Animal Rights: From Why to How

Bankruptcy for the Ninety-Five Percent: Making the System Work for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and Sole Proprietors

Private vs. Public Family Law

Interpreting the Scope of IP Rights

Challenging Sovereignty: Exploring the Rise of ISIS and Boko Haram

800 Years of Comparative Constitutionalism: The Unique Legacy of Magna Charta

Does Evidence Still Matter?

Neither the Purse nor the Sword: Writing About the Court for the Public

The State of the Art on Placing Legal Scholarship – and its Potential Consequences

Transactional Lawyering and Contractual Innovation

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Increasing Author Diversity in Legal Scholarship: Individual and Institutional Strategies

Fostering Entrepreneurial Lawyering in Curricular Design

Second Meeting

New and Emerging Voices in Workplace Law

Pedagogy for New Law Teachers: Legal Research and Writing Classes for Non-U.S. Lawyers

Pedagogy for New Law School Teachers: Teaching IP to Non-Law Students

Legislation: New Voices

Preparing Law Faculty for Media Appearances: Focusing the Message and Avoiding Land Mines

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Intellectual Property and Protection of Software -- Co-Sponsored by AALS Section on Intellectual Property

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Joining the Administration: Law School and University Leadership for Law School Professors

The Supreme Court and the Future of Lethal Injection

The Future of Global Finance: A Roundtable

Law Libraries and Data Assessment: Using Analytics to Promote Change That Matters to Our Law Schools

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Session V: Follow-up and Small-Group Feedback

Creating & Publishing Teaching Materials – Navigating the IP Questions

VARA At 25

Research in Progress on East Asian Law and Society

Reimagining the Curriculum to Address Student Needs and Bench and Bar Demands

From Selma to Ferguson: Reflections on Police, Policing, and Protests

Copyrights, Trademarks and Fair Use of Social Media Content: What's Fair Game and What's Off Limits for Communications Practitioners?

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