2013 Annual Meeting Program

9:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center

10:00 am - 6:00 pm AALS Exhibit Hall Open House - "The Meeting Place"

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Admiralty and Maritime Law
Thirty Years of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Balance in Legal Education
Improving Student Well-Being Inside and Outside the Classroom

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Biolaw, Co-Sponsored by Section on Minority Groups
The Genes Speak: Reifying Race, Gender and Sex in the New Biopolitics

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Committee on Professional Development - Hot Topic Workshop on Democracy and the Public Trust: Equality, Integrity, and Suppression in the 2012 Election
Democracy and the Public Trust: Equality, Integrity, and Suppression in the 2012 Election

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Committee on Research - Qualitative Empirical Research
Qualitative Empirical Research Workshop ( Fri 2-5 pm-Sat 9am-5:15 pm. Addtl registration fee $100, includes box lunch. Advance registration required; optional homework to be assigned.)

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Committee on Research Workshop - Quantitative Workshop #1
Quantitative Empirical Training Workshop (Fri 2-5 pm-Sat 9am-5:15 pm. Addt'l reg fee of $100, includes box lunch. Advance registration required and homework will be given.)

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Comparative Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program
Workers After the Ascendancy of Global Financial Capital

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Constitutional Law and Education Law Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Sections on Children and the Law, Minority Groups, and State and Local Government
40 Years After Rodriguez, 35 Years After Bakke: Education, Equality and Fundamental Rights

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services and Securities Regulation Joint Program
The Regulation of Financial Markets Intermediaries: The Making and Un-Making of Markets

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Institutional Advancement
Challenges, Uncertainty, and Change: Best Practices Collaboration for Development, Alumni Services, and Communications Professionals

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Presidential Program: Assessing the Future of International Criminal Justice - Evolving Individual Accountability - From Nuremburg to the International Criminal Court

2:00 pm - 5:15 pm Socio-Economics
Socio-Economic Strategies for Economic Prosperity

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Balance in Legal Education Business Meeting

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Civil Procedure Business Meeting

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Immigration Law Business Meeting

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities Business Meeting

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Twelve Step Meeting

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Reception for Law Schools' Teachers of the Year and Emeriti Faculty Members

8:00 pm - 12:00 am Law and Film Series
Classic Film Night

7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center

7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Registration

7:00 am - 8:30 am Academic Support Continental Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am Constitutional Law Breakfast
Presidential Power Under the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations

7:00 am - 8:30 am Law, Medicine, and Health Care Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am Poverty Law Continental Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am Property Law Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am Special Meeting and Continental Breakfast for Beginning Law School Teachers

7:30 am - 8:30 am Twelve Step Meeting

8:00 am - 5:00 pm AALS Exhibit Hall Open House - "The Meeting Place"

8:15 am - 5:30 pm Environmental Law and Natural Resources and Energy Law Joint Field Trip
Field Trip to the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) at Chauvin, Louisiana

8:30 am - 10:15 am Administrative Law
Congress and the Modern Administrative State

8:30 am - 10:15 am Alternative Dispute Resolution Co-Sponsored by Section on Litigation
Environmental Law Conflict Resolution (ECR): A Report Card

8:30 am - 10:15 am Animal Law
A Global Perspective of Animal Law

8:30 am - 10:15 am Children and the Law, Co-Sponsored by International Human Rights
Evolving Responsibilities: The Impact of Recent Global Trends on Children and Families

8:30 am - 10:15 am Continuing Legal Education
iBooks, eBooks, ePubs, Oh My! The Emerging Role of Electronic Books in Legal Education

8:30 am - 10:15 am Contracts
The Law of Contract or Laws of Contracts?

8:30 am - 10:15 am Defamation and Privacy
Me @ the Zoo: Privacy, Celebrity, and Modern Media

8:30 am - 10:15 am Hot Topic Program - Transparency Revisited: New Data, New Directions

8:30 am - 5:15 pm Institutional Advancement
Challenges, Uncertainty, and Change: Best Practices Collaboration for Development, Alumni Services, and Communications Professionals

8:30 am - 10:15 am Law, Medicine, and Health Care, Co-Sponsored by Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
American Exceptionalism, Health Reform and the Persistence of Employer-Based Benefits

8:30 am - 10:15 am Remedies
Racial and Gender Bias in Legal and Equitable Remedies: At the Crossroads of Doctrine and Social Science

8:45 am - 5:15 pm AALS Presidential Workshop on Globalizing the Curriculum

9:00 am - 5:00 pm Committee on Research Workshop - Qualitative Empirical Workshop
Qualitative Empirical Methods (Addtl registration fee for 1½ day program)

9:00 am - 5:00 pm Committee on Research Workshop - Quantitative Workshop #1
Empirical Training Workshop (Part II and Part II) (Additional registration fee for this 1½ day program)

9:00 am - 10:00 am Poster Sponsored by Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting

9:00 am - 10:00 am Posters Sponsored by Section on Teaching Methods

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Administrative Law
New Voices in Administrative Law

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Aging and the Law and Trusts and Estates Joint Program
Trusts and Estates, and an Aging Population: What We Need to Know and Teach

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Antitrust and Economic Regulation
Google and Antitrust

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Civil Rights and Immigration Law Joint Program
The Civil Rights Consequences of State and Local Responses to Immigration and Immigrants

10:30 am - 12:15 am Clinical Legal Education and Poverty Law Joint Program
The Debt Crisis and the National Response: Big Changes or Tinkering at the Edges?

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Family and Juvenile Law
Defining and Supporting the Parent-Child Relationship: Comparative and International Perspectives

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Hot Topic Program - What Happens When “Legalize It” Moves From Slogan to State Law?

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Jurisprudence
Social Welfare Functions: A Roundtable on Matthew Adler’s Well-Being and Fair Distribution

10:30 am - 12:15 am Law and Religion
Freedom of the Church

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Litigation, Co-Sponsored by Sections on Civil Procedure and Federal Courts
The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: Perspectives and Predictions

10:30 am - 11:30 am Posters Sponsored by Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Professional Responsibility
New Developments in Attorney-Client Privilege

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Civil Procedure Luncheon

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Conflict of Laws Luncheon

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Criminal Justice and Evidence - Joint Luncheon

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Luncheon

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm Institutional Advancement Luncheon and Business Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Labor Relations and Employment Law Luncheon

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Law Libraries and Legal Information Luncheon
iPad and iPhone Apps for Legal Practice

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Luncheon

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Minority Groups Luncheon

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Prelegal Education and Admission to Law School Luncheon

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Socio Economics Luncheon
Structural Reform in the Political Process: Getting Beyond Deadlock

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Clinical Legal Education Luncheon

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Agricultural and Food Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care
Exploring the Links Between Food and Agriculture Policy and Obesity

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Art Law
Art in an Age of Digital Convergence

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Civil Procedure
75th Anniversary of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Committee on Libraries and Technology
"The Times They Are A’Changin:” Leveraging Library Services and Resources to Respond to Evolving Faculty Scholarly and Curricular Needs

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Criminal Justice
Technology and Crime: The Future of the Fourth Amendment in Public

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Law and Economics and Law and Interpretation Joint Program
Interpretation and Uncertainty

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Posters Sponsored by Section on Academic Support

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Posters Sponsored by Section on Socio Economics

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities, Co-Sponsored by Section on International Human Rights
Pro Bono Without Borders: Public Service Projects in an International Context

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm State and Local Government Law
Cities in Recession

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Transactional Law and Skills
Researching and Teaching Transactional Law and Skills in an Increasingly Global World

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Business Associations
Business Associations and Governance in Emerging Economies

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Creditors' and Debtors’ Rights
The Great Deleveraging: Bankruptcy After the Crisis, Formal and Informal

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Crosscutting Program: The Concept of Peace in Law, Culture and Society

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Employment Discrimination
The Future of Frameworks

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Hot Topic - The NY 50 Hour Pro Bono Requirement: What You Need to Know About the Impact, Implications & Opportunities

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Internet and Computer Law and Mass Communication Law Joint Program
Politics and the Media, New and Old

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Law and the Humanities, Co-Sponsored by Section on Family and Juvenile Law
Law, Humanities and the Vulnerable Subject

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Legislation and the Law of the Political Process
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Minority Groups, Co-Sponsored by Section on Women in Legal Education
Beyond “Diversity”: Negotiating Racial and Gender Identities on the Path to Tenure

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Poster Sponsored by Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm Teaching Methods
Sharing Methods and Materials for Collaborative Teaching Methods

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm First Meeting of AALS House of Representatives

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm AALS Gala Reception

8:00 pm - 12:00 am Law and Film Series
Documentary Film Night

7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center

7:00 am - 7:00 pm AALS Registration

7:00 am - 8:30 am Federal Courts Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am International Law Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am State and Local Government Law Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am Women in Legal Education Continental Breakfast

7:30 am - 8:30 am Twelve Step Meeting

8:00 am - 5:00 pm AALS Exhibit Hall Open House - "The Meeting Place"

8:30 am - 10:15 am AALS Advisory Committee on Global Engagement
Open Session on Global Engagement: How Can We Help?

8:30 am - 12:15 pm AALS Site Evaluators Workshop

8:30 am - 10:15 am Commercial and Related Consumer Law
Aberrant Contracts: Fringe Economy Lending and Other Atypical Consumer Agreements

8:30 AM - 5:45 PM Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and Students Program
AALS Statement of Good Practices for the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Faculty Members and Ways of Enhancing Diversity in Legal Education

8:30 am - 10:15 am Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
Retirement Planning After the Election

8:30 am - 10:15 am Environmental Law and North American Cooperation Joint Program
40 Years of Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law – A Retrospective Look

8:30 am - 10:15 am Evidence
Neuroscience and Law: The Science, the Scholarship, the Courtroom, and the Classroom

8:30 am - 10:15 am Federal Courts
Non-Article III Courts: Problems of Principle and Practice

8:30 am - 10:15 am for the Law School Dean
Deaning in the “New Normal”

8:30 am - 5:15 pm Informal Networking Sessions

8:30 am - 12:15 pm Institutional Advancement
Challenges, Uncertainty, and Change: Best Practices Collaboration for Development, Alumni Services, and Communications Professionals

8:30 am - 10:15 am International Human Rights
Human Rights in Times of Conflict: New Voices in Human Rights

8:30 am - 10:15 am Law and Mental Disability, Co-Sponsored by Section on Disability Law
Mental Health Courts and Their Uses of Therapeutic Jurisprudence: International Perspectives

8:30 am - 10:15 am Women in Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Section on New Law Professors
Speed Mentoring

9:00 am - 10:00 am Posters Sponsored by Section on Clinical Legal Education

10:30 am - 12:15 pm AALS Roundtable for Research Deans
Reconsidering the Institutional Role and Purpose of the Research Dean (or "Who Are We, and Why are We Here?")

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Africa
Lesson from Africa on Legal Pluralism: Customary Law, Constitutional Provisions and International Norms

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Committee on Curriculum
Capstone Courses

10:30 am - 12:15 pm for the Law School Dean (A Deans-only program. Attendance open only to Deans & Interim Deans of AALS member and fee-paid law schools)
Deans’ Forum: An Open Discussion of Current Issues

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Graduate Programs for Non-U.S. Lawyers and Law and South Asian Studies Joint Program
Legal Education and Legal Reform in South Asia

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Hot Topic Program - “Jobs,” the JOBS Act, and the Future of Small Business Finance and the U.S. Equity Markets
“Jobs,” the JOBS Act, and the Future of Small Business Finance and the U.S. Equity Markets

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples
Indian Gaming and the Future of Tribal Sovereignty

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Insurance Law
Insurance and Consumer Protection

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Jewish Law
Exploring Paradoxes and Anomalies in Jewish and Comparative Law

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Law and the Social Sciences
Social Science Approaches to Legal Scholarship

10:30 am - 12:15 pm Law Libraries and Legal Information
Understanding Search Engine Algorithms: Can We Effectively Teach Research Without Them?

10:30 am - 12:15 pm National Security Law
Law for the End of the World as We Know It: Planning for Dystopia

10:30 am - 12:15 pm New Law Professors
Continuity and Change in Legal Scholarship: Plain Talk for New Law Professors

10:30 am - 11:30 am Posters Sponsored by Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting

10:30 am - 11:30 am Posters Sponsored by Section on Environmental Law

10:30 am - 11:30 am Posters Sponsored by Section on Transactional Law

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Association Luncheon
Advance ticket purchase is necessary. Tickets may be purchased at On-site Registration until 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 5.

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Agency, Partnerships, LLCs and Unincorporated Associations
The Scholarship of Professor Larry Ribstein

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Crosscutting Program: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Intersection of Environmental Law, Natural Resources Development, Water Law, Energy Law, International Law, and Indigenous Law

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Hot Topic Program - The NFIB Medicaid Decision: Interpretation and Implications

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm International Law
Global Corporate Rights and Responsibilities: Reflections on Kiobel and Citizens United

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Law and Sports
The Concussion Crisis in American Sport

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Legal History
New Directions in Southern Legal History

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
The Past, Present, and Future of Appellate Briefs

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Posters Sponsored by Section on Family and Juvenile Law

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Post-Graduate Legal Education
Best Practices in Online LL.M. Programs

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Prelegal Education and Admission to Law School
Reignite and Renew: How to Rebuild Your Brand in a Down Economy and Bad Press

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Presidential Program - Law Schools and Their Critics

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Scholarly Paper Presentation

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
Straight Supremacy in the Name of God: Examining Religious Liberty from the Standpoint of Its Victims

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Taxation
Does the U.S. Need a VAT?

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Torts and Compensation Systems
Tort and Compensation Principles in Related Fields

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Academic Support
Assessing Our Students, Our Successes, and Ourselves

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm CANCELLED - Open Program on Global Finance, Multinationals and Social Cost - CANCELLED
Gathering to Consider Formation as an AALS Section

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Conflict of Laws
In Memoriam: Choice of Law Methodology and the Work of Larry Ribstein

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Crosscutting Program: Deconstruct and Reconstruct: Reexamining Bias in the Legal System; Searching for New Approaches

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Disability Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Law and Mental Disability
Rethinking Alexander v. Choate in the Wake of the Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Hot Topic Program - Looking Forward After NFIB v. Sebelius

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property and Social Media

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Islamic Law, Co-Sponsored by Section on Law and Religion
Remaking the Islamic State after the Arab Spring

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Law and Anthropology
Human Rights, Culture and Indigenous Development

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Nonprofit Law and Philanthropy
Nonprofits and Social Enterprise

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Open Program on European Law
The Globalization of European Privacy Law? and Gathering to Consider Formation as an AALS Section

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Open Program on Law School Administration and Finance
Gathering to Consider Formation as an AALS Section

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Part-Time Division Programs
Unbundling Part-Time Programs from Full-Time Programs

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Poster Sponsored by Section on Women in Legal Education

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Posters Sponsored by Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Real Estate Transactions
Keeping It Real: Lessons in the Structuring, Handling and Teaching of Real Estate Transactions in the Wake of the Great Real Estate Recession

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm Scholarship
How Can Legal Scholarship Be More Policy Relevant?

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Second Meeting of AALS House of Representatives

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Academic Support Business Meeting

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Women in Legal Education Business Meeting

7:15 pm - 8:15 pm AALS Reception for Legal Educators from Law Schools Outside the United States

7:00 am - 12:00 pm AALS Office and Information Center

7:00 am - 12:00 pm AALS Registration

7:00 am - 8:30 am Workshop and Continental Breakfast and Meeting for 2012 and 2013 Section Officers

7:30 am - 8:30 am Twelve Step Meeting

8:15 am - 12:30 pm Joint Service Project of Sections on Poverty Law and Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities
A Current Project in the Lower 9th Ward, hosted by the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement & Development (L9 CSED).

9:00 am - 10:45 am Criminal Justice, Co-Sponsored by Section on Family and Juvenile Law, and Women in Legal Education
Rethinking State Intervention in Intimate-Partner Violence

9:00 am - 12:00 pm International Legal Exchange
Outcomes, Measures and Assessment in International Legal Exchange

9:00 am - 10:45 am Law and the Social Sciences, Co-Sponsored by Section on Law and Anthropology
Law from the Outside-In: In Honor of Jane Larson

9:00 am - 10:45 am Law Libraries and Legal Information
Law Libraries of the 21st Century: Butterflies, Phoenixes, or the Same Old Thing?

9:00 am - 10:45 am Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
The Bench, the Bar, and the Academy Unite to Discuss Legal Education

9:00 am - 10:45 am Minority Groups
Food as “Multi-Plate Entrée” to Social Justice: Law’s Role in Access to Food in New Orleans and Beyond

9:00 am - 12:00 pm Natural Resources and Energy Law and Property Law Joint Program
40 Years of Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law – A Prospective Look

9:00 am - 12:00 pm Student Services
Redefining the Student Affairs’ Role in Designing Structures to Address Current Global and Emerging Societal Changes Impacting Legal Education

9:00 am - 10:45 am Women in Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Sections on Employment Discrimination Law, Torts and Compensation Systems
Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation