Program

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee with Colleagues

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Coffee with Colleagues

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Section on Education Law Informal Networking

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Section on International Law Informal Networking

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM AALS Exhibit Hall - The Meeting Place

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM AALS Committee on Recruitment and Retention for Law School Faculty
Existential Threats to Recruitment and Retention of Law Faculty and Law Students

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM AALS Hot Topic Program
Ukrainian Resilience on the Front Lines of Democracy: What is the Role of International Law?

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Unincorporated Associations and Securities Regulation Joint Program
Unincorporated Entities in the Digital Retail Economy

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM CANCELLED Property Law
CANCELLED Pedagogy Session: Teaching Property in the Next Generation

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Commercial and Consumer Law
Innovation and Impact: A Tribute to Juliet Moringiello

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Constitutional Law
New Perspectives in Constitutional Law

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Criminal Law, Sponsored by Criminal Procedure
The New Age of Pardons

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Sponsored by Law and Sports and Minority Groups
Sports, Race, and Employee Benefits Law – The Case of Cloud v. NFL Retirement Plan

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Sponsored by Disability Law and Law and Mental Disability
Managing Disability: From Academic Job Searching Through Tenure, Promotion, and Beyond

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Legal Master's Programs
Measuring What Matters: Data-Informed Excellence and Leadership in Master of Legal Studies Programs

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Pro Bono & Access to Justice
Unified for Justice: A Collaborative Law School Approach to Pro Bono

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Issues
Works-in-Progress Program

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Socio-Economics
How Socioeconomics Can Help Us Survive Trump’s Assault on the Administrative State

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Teaching Methods, Sponsored by Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, and Women in Legal Education
Teaching in Turbulent Times

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Technology, Law and Legal Education
Skills-Based Education in the Age of AI

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Coffee with Colleagues

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM AALS Hot Topic Program
Beyond NextGen: Licensure Reform and Equity in Attorney Licensure

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM AALS Open Source Program
Teaching So Gen Z Students Can Learn

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM AALS Site Visit Workshop

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM AALS Symposium
Panel 1 – Support for the Rule of Law through Teaching

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Animal Law
The Animals Missing from Legal Analysis

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Criminal Law, Sponsored by Criminal Procedure
Bounding the Modes of Punishment

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Trump 2.0’s Impact on Employee Benefits

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Exhibit Hall Presentation by the American Bar Association
Powering Law Student Growth: Leveraging the ABA as a Strategic Partner in Law Student Engagement and Success

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Immigration Law
Immigration Enforcement and the Limits of Law

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Sponsored by Disability Law and Law and Mental Disability
Works-in-Progress Panel

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Law, Medicine and Health Care
Debating Healthcare Expertise

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Legal History
The Declaration of Independence at 250

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Legislation and Law of the Political Process
Congress in an Age of Presidential Primacy: Budget and Spending

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Socio-Economics, Sponsored by Creditors’ and Debtors’ Rights and Poverty Law
Economic Predation in the Age of Trump

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Technology, Law and Legal Education
Tech-Driven Disruption: How Emerging Tools are Rewriting Legal Doctrines

2:35 PM - 5:25 PM AALS Symposium
Promoting the Rule of Law

2:35 PM - 5:25 PM Environmental Law and Natural Resources and Energy Law Joint Program
Works-in-Progress: Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM AALS Symposium
Panel 2 – Support for the Rule of Law through Scholarship and Service

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Access, Opportunity and Impact
The Evolution of the Work of Creating Community and Belonging

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Administrative Law
New Voices in Administrative Law

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Unincorporated Associations
New Voices in Unincorporated Entities

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Education Law, Sponsored by Children and the Law and Critical Theories
The Privatization of Public Education: Consideration and Consequences

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Exhibit Hall Presentation by Acuity Insights
Situational Judgement Assessment - Insights that Strengthen Student Readiness

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Immigration Law
Emerging Immigration Legal Scholarship

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Sponsored by Disability Law and Law and Mental Disability
Pedagogy, Advising, and Beyond: Disabled Law Students, Disabled and Allied Law Student Associations (DALSAs), and Other Student Organizations Focused on Disability

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Law, Medicine and Health Care
Emerging Issues in Law, Medicine, and Health Care

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Minority Groups
Radical Legal Imaginaries: Law, Literature, and Speculative Futures

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Presented by West Academic, a BARBRI Company
From Classrooms to Clicks: Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Legal Education

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Teaching Methods, Sponsored by Academic Support, Clinical Legal Education, Law Libraries and Legal Information, and Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Helping Every Student Develop Practice Ready Skills Across the Curriculum

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM AALS Arc of Career Program
A Session for First Time Meeting Attendees: What is AALS and Why Does It Matter for My Career? And How Do I Get the Most Out of the Annual Meeting?

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM University of Washington School of Law Health Law Gathering

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Clinical Legal Education
Business Meeting

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Education Law
Business Meeting

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Evidence
Business Meeting

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Law, Medicine and Health Care
Business Meeting

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Legislation and Law of the Political Process
Award Ceremony

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Natural Resources and Energy Law
Business Meeting

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Reception for New Law Teachers

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Penn State Dickinson Law Antiracist Development Institute and Roger Williams University School of Law Reception

7:00 AM - 6:00 PM AALS Registration

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Nursing Parents Room

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM Coffee with Colleagues

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Mindfulness Meditation in the Contemplative Space

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM AALS Hot Topic Program
Race to the Bottom: The New Gerrymander and State Constitutional Responses

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM AALS Hot Topic Program
Who, What, and Where: Second Amendment Questions the Supreme Court Will Finally Answer This Term and Questions It Continues to Avoid

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Civil Procedure
The Prison Litigation Reform Act: 30 Years On

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Criminal Procedure Sponsored by Criminal Law
Who Claims the Power to Police? Authority, Legitimacy, and the Re-Imagining of Public Safety

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Environmental Law Sponsored by Natural Resources and Energy Law
The Next Chapter of Environmental law: How and What Do We Teach Our Students in a Period of Rapid Change?

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Islamic Law
Islamic Law Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Jewish Law
Teaching and Writing About Antisemitism

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Law and Sports, Sponsored by Law, Medicine and Health Care
Main Program Panels

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Legal Master's Programs
The Enduring Impact of Legal Master Programs on Legal Education and Professional Practice

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Minority Groups
Property Rights and Racial Dispossession

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM National Security Law, Sponsored by International Human Rights
Judicial Deference in the National Security Space: Is It Warranted?

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM New Law Professors
Thriving, Not Just Surviving, As A New Law Professor

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Scholarship
Challenges to Academic Freedom

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Technology, Law and Legal Education
The Impact of Technology on Law and Society

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Mindful Movement in the Contemplative Space

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee with Colleagues

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Section on Associate Deans and Academic Affairs Informal Networking

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Section on Balance & Well-Being in Legal Ed. Informal Networking

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Section on Student Services Informal Networking

9:00 AM - 6:30 PM AALS Exhibit Hall - The Meeting Place

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM AALS Presidential Program
AALS at 125: Reflecting on History and Impact

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Art Law
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM CANCELLED Clinical Legal Education
CANCELLED Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Civil Procedure
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Evidence
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Family and Juvenile Law
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM International Human Rights
Award Ceremony and Memorial to Professor Henry J. Richardson III

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Jurisprudence
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Race and Private Law and Women in Legal Education
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Student Services
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Technology, Law and Legal Education
Award Ceremony

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference Welcome & Luncheon Debate: Resolved: The President Has the Indefeasible Power of Removal

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Introduction to Mindfulness in the Contemplative Space

12:45 PM - 12:55 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers - Welcome and Introduction

12:45 PM - 5:00 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers

12:55 PM - 2:15 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers - Session One: Advice to my Junior Self: What I Wish I Knew Then

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM AALS Hot Topic Program
Author Meets Deans: The Opinionated University by Brian Soucek

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM AALS Hot Topic Program
Analyzing Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on Legal Education: The Lessons Learned and Their Application to Today’s Emerging Challenges.

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Agricultural and Food Law
MAHA: Facts and Fictions

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education, Sponsored by Leadership
Doing Well-Being Without Losing Your Mind: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Law Student, Faculty, and Staff Well-Being

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Biolaw
Vaccine Skepticism

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Business Associations
The Evolution of Delaware Corporate Law and the Reemergence of State Regulatory Competition

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Civil Rights and Clinical Legal Education Joint Program
Political Interference in Legal Education: Responding to the Current Moment

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Criminal Law Sponsored by Criminal Procedure
Critical Engagement with Criminal Law: Scholarship & Teaching

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Evidence, Sponsored by Immigration Law
Decarceral Evidence

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Exhibit Hall Presentation by MF Digital Marketing, Inc.
Driving Law School Revenue Through Innovation: The Rise of Legal Master’s Programs

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Institutional Advancement
Beyond the Buzz: Putting AI to Work for You

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Intellectual Property, Sponsored by Administrative Law, Art Law, Internet and Computer Law, Law, Medicine and Health Care, and Technology, Law and Legal Education
IP and Innovation in Turbulent Times

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Journal of Legal Education
The Access Imperative: A Special Issue of the Journal of Legal Education

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Law Libraries and Legal Information, Sponsored by Technology, Law and Legal Education
Standing Against Desertification of the Internet: How Can We Protect Information Integrity and Availability?

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
State of the Discipline

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Poverty Law
2025-2050: Poverty Law & Policy Risks and Opportunities in Times of Change

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Race and Private Law
Race and Private Law Junior Faculty Workshop

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference 7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 1-A

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference 7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 1-B

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference 7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 1-C

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Coffee with Colleagues

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Section on National Security Law Informal Networking

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Section on Poverty Law Informal Networking

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Section on Agricultural and Food Law Informal Networking

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers - Session Two: Getting to Yes: Navigating the Path to Tenure, Promotion, and Renewal

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM AALS Discussion Group
Working Toward Wellbeing

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM AALS Open Source Program
AI Legal Scholarship “Sh[ai]rk Tank"

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM AALS Presidential Program
Legal Education, the Courts, and the Profession

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Civil Rights and Clinical Legal Education Joint Program
Susan R. Jones Memorial Paper Competition and WIP Program

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Constitutional Law
America's Superpower? The First Amendment

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Criminal Procedure, Sponsored by Criminal Law
Brady v. Maryland at 60+: Prosecutorial Ethics, Polarization, and Empirics

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Disability Law, Sponsored by Civil Rights and Education Law
Pillars in Peril: Civil and Disability Rights Laws Under Attack

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Exhibit Hall Presentation by Eduvantis: Beyond the JD: Building High-Impact Non-JD Programs that Drive Growth
Beyond the JD: Building High-Impact Non-JD Programs that Drive Growth

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Institutional Advancement
Working with Faculty and Deans for Institutional Advancement

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Intellectual Property
Emerging Scholars Panel

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Law and the Humanities, Sponsored by Critical Theories
The Humanities Endangered

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Law and the Social Sciences, Sponsored by Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
New Books in Law and the Social Sciences

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Law in the Americas Sponsored by Environmental Law, International Human Rights, and International Law
Declaring a Climate Emergency

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Law Libraries and Legal Information
Challenges and Opportunities in the Changing Information Landscape

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School
Supporting Justice-Impacted Law School Applicants: Updates and Best Practices for Admissions and Policy Reform

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Student Services Sponsored by Academic Support, Access, Opportunity and Impact, Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education, Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School, and Professional Responsibility
Compassionate Accountability: Faculty-Staff Partnerships to Elevate Student Professional Development

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Transactional Law and Skills
Teaching Transactional Law Skills

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Federalist Society Annual Conference Remarks by AALS President-Elect

3:00 PM - 4:45 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference Panel: Abundance and the Law

4:00 PM - 4:55 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers - Session Three: Be Well While Doing Well: Strategies for Junior Faculty Success and Sustainability

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM AALS Discussion Group
Unwinding Mass Incarceration through Law School Second Chance Advocacy

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM AALS Hot Topic Program
Scaling the Summit: How Law Schools and Courts Can Collaborate to Promote Civics Education

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM AALS Research Collaboration
Women Attorneys in Higher Education Leadership

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Art Law
Balancing Artistic Freedom and Trademark Protection

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Civil Rights
New Voices in Civil Rights - Emerging Approaches in Civil Rights Law: Theory, Method, and Reform

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Community Economic Development, Sponsored by State and Local Government Law
The Future of Community Development

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Disability Law, Sponsored by Immigration Law and Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies
Immigration and Disability Law

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Education Law, Sponsored by Critical Theories
The Trump Administration's Assault on Higher Education

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Environmental Law and Insurance Law Joint Program, Sponsored by Property Law
Climate Change and The Homeowners Insurance Crises Unfolding Across the Country

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Exhibit Hall Presentation by The National Jurist: Inside the Rankings: Behind the Metrics that Shape Legal Education
Inside the Rankings: Behind the Metrics that Shape Legal Education

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Family and Juvenile Law, Sponsored by Academic Support, Children and the Law, and Trusts and Estates
NextGen Bar

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Institutional Advancement
New Strategies in Advancement Events

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Pedagogy in Theory & Praxis

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Islamic Law
Islamic Law & the Question of Palestine

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Works-in-Progress Program

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Legislation and Law of the Political Process
New Voices in Legislation

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Presented by the National Conference of Bar Examiners
Countdown to the NextGen UBE

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Securities Regulation, Sponsored by Business Associations and Race and Private Law
A New Day at the SEC

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Session Gathering on Maduro’s Capture and the Venezuelan Incursion: Untying the Legal Knots?

4:55 PM - 5:00 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers - Closing Remarks

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Introduction to Mindfulness in the Contemplative Space

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference Reception

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM AALS Reception

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Stetson University College of Law and Lewis & Clark Law School Reception: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Advocacy Skills Education

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM University of California Irvine School of Law Reception

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM University of California, Berkeley School of Law AALS Reception in New Orleans

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Mixer

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ABA Legal Education Police Practices Consortium Open Meeting on the Study of Policing Practices

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Reception for Alumni and Friends

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Big 12 Law Schools Reception

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Reception - EVENT CANCELLED

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Georgetown University Law Center AALS Reception

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Howard University School of Law Alumni Reception - EVENT CANCELLED

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM SEC Law School Reception

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and Legal Writing Institute (LWI) and Legal Writing Institute (LWI) Blackwell Award Reception

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM AALS Registration

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Nursing Parents Room

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Community Economic Development
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Election Law
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Family and Juvenile Law
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM International Human Rights
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Jewish Law
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Law and South Asian Studies
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Leadership
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM State and Local Government Law
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM Coffee with Colleagues

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM AALS Deans Forum Program (Deans-only Program)

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference Breakfast

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Administrative Law
The President, the Courts, and the Administrative State in Changing Times

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Alternative Dispute Resolution, Sponsored by Civil Procedure and Labor Relations and Employment Law
The Future of Mandatory Arbitration: Pathways for Reform

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research
Leading From the Second Chair

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Civil Rights, Sponsored by Critical Theories
2025 to 2050: Teaching the Future of Justice and Reconstructing the Civil Rights Curriculum

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM East Asian Law and Society, Sponsored by Comparative Law, Global Engagement, International Law, and Post Graduate Legal Education
The Impact of Geopolitical Tensions on Legal Education

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Election Law
Stress Testing Democracy

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Employee Benefits Law Goes Interdisciplinary!

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Firearms Law, Sponsored by Administrative Law and Torts and Compensation Systems
Lethality in Firearms Law

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Institutional Advancement
Sharing Stewardship Success: Strategies & Stories from the Field

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM International Human Rights
Teaching Human Rights: From Specialized Courses to Doctrinal Integration

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Law and Mental Disability, Sponsored by Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education and Law, Medicine and Health Care
Mental Health and Law: Is All “Well” in the Legal Academy?

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Practicing Professionalism from Courtroom to Classroom

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM National Security Law
National Security Law Junior Scholars Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Part-Time Division Programs, Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education
Challenges and Innovations in Experiential Education in Part-Time, Hybrid, and Online Programs

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Securities Regulation
Works-in-Progress in Securities Regulation

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM State and Local Government, Sponsored by Community Economic Development and Taxation
Crisis and Capacity: State and Local Government Law in a Time of Constraint

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee with Colleagues

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Section on Legal Master's Programs Informal Networking

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference Panel: Originalism, Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM AALS Exhibit Hall - The Meeting Place

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education
Works-in-Progress

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Business Associations
Business Law Works-in-Progress

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Commercial and Consumer Law and Creditors' and Debtors' Rights Joint Program
BAPCPA at 20: A Retrospective of the 2005 Bankruptcy Code Amendments

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Criminal Procedure, Sponsored by Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure Works-in-Progress

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program
New & Emerging Voices in Work Law

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Evidence
Teaching Evidence Law: Pedagogy, Practice, and Modern Challenges

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Exhibit Hall Presentation by BARBRI | West Academic
Teaching the Modern Learner: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Global Engagement, Sponsored by East Asian Law & Society, International Law, and Post-Graduate Legal Education
Academic, Cross-Cultural & Financial Impact of LLM Programs on U.S. Law Schools

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Institutional Advancement
The IA Strategy Exchange: Your Peer-Powered Roundtable

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM International Human Rights and International Law Joint Program
Bringing Human Rights Home: From International Law to Local Action

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Law and South Asian Studies
80-Years and Counting: Constitution-Making and the Legacy of the Indian Constituent Assembly in South Asia

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Law and the Humanities, Sponsored by Critical Theories
Law, War and the Humanities

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Law Libraries and Legal Information
Cutting Through Hype: Generative AI Teaching and Use Cases That Actually Work

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Litigation, Sponsored by Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Federal Courts, and Remedies
Public Law Litigation in a Post-CASA Future

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Natural Resources and Energy Law Sponsored by Admiralty and Maritime Law and Environmental Law
Technology Optimism, Pessimism, and Realism

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Poverty Law
New Voices in Poverty Law Works-in-Progress Program

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Women in Legal Education, Sponsored by Disability Law, Employment Discrimination Law and Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies
Unpacking Harassment and Bullying in the Legal Academy

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Cover Workshop

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference 7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 2-A

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference 7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 2-B

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference 7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 2-C

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM Institutional Advancement
Swag Swap and Business Meeting

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM CANCELLED Law and Religion
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Commercial and Consumer Law
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Comparative Law
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM East Asian Law and Society
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Election Law
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Federal Courts
Award Ceremony and Memorial for Professor Richard H. Fallon Jr.

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Firearms Law
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM International Law
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Law and South Asian Studies
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Award Ceremony and Business Meeting

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Minority Groups
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Torts and Compensation Systems
Award Ceremony

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Trusts and Estates
Award Ceremony

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference Luncheon Panel: Developments in Delaware: DExit, SB21, Musk, and More

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM AALS Arc of Career Program
From Courtroom to Classroom: Navigating Culture Shock in the Transition from Legal Practice to Legal Academia

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM AALS Discussion Group
Cultivating Resilience for Lawyers and Law Students During Crisis and Disaster

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM AALS Hot Topic Program
The Attack on American Cities

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Children and the Law, Sponsored by Family and Juvenile Law and Law, Medicine and Health Care
Children in the (Re)Making of America

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Constitutional Law
Judicial Oversight of the Unitary Executive

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Criminal Procedure, Sponsored by Criminal Law and Critical Theories
Incorporating Lived Experiences with the Criminal Legal System in the Classroom

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM East Asian Law and Society, Sponsored by Comparative Law
Challenges to Freedom of Expression in East Asia and Lessons for Resilience in the United States

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, Sponsored by Law and the Social Sciences and Pro Bono & Access to Justice
Innovations for Delivery of Legal Services: Promoting Access and Equity

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program, Sponsored by Civil Rights and Disability Law
Labor & Democracy in Crisis

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Exhibit Hall Presentation by LexisNexis
Raising the Bar: A Toast to the New Year and the Future of Legal Research and Innovation

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Federal Courts
Injunctive Relief After Trump v. CASA

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Institutional Advancement, Sponsored by Student Services
Sponsored Success: Maximizing Law Firm Support for Student Groups and Advancement Events

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM International Law, Sponsored by International Human Rights and National Security Law
The Trump Administration and International Law 2.0

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
The NextGen Bar is Upon Us: How Will It Impact Law Schools’ Curricula?

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School
The Shifting Financial Aid Landscape: Policy and Research Implications for a New Era

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Race and Private Law and Securities Regulation Joint Program, Sponsored by Business Associations and Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law
Race Disclosures in the Trump Era

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Remedies Sponsored by Intellectual Property
Remedies in Tech

1:00 PM - 3:50 PM Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program, Sponsored by Civil Rights and Disability Law

1:00 PM - 3:50 PM Law and Economics
Emerging Scholars Work-in-Progress Session

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Coffee with Colleagues

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Section on Clinical Legal Education Informal Networking

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Section on Litigation Informal Networking

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Section on Property Law Informal Networking

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM AALS Discussion Group
State and Local Courts in the Age of Trump

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Aging and the Law, Sponsored by Poverty Law and Trusts and Estates
Aging with Dignity: Legal Challenges to Federal Cuts and Their Impact on Vulnerable Older Adults

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Business Associations and Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Joint Program
A Moment of Reconvergence: The Intersection of Nonprofit & For Profit Law

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Civil Rights, Sponsored by Critical Theories
Pathways for Progress in Civil Rights Doctrine and Practice

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Comparative Law, Sponsored by East Asian Law
The Role of Lawyers and Legal Education in Advancing the Rule of Law: A Comparative Perspective

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Constitutional Law
Business Meeting

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program, Sponsored by Civil Rights and Disability Law
The State of Enforcement: Hear From the Experts

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Exhibit Hall Presentation by Aspen Publishing
Increasing Bar Passage: Data, Strategies, and Tools for Law School Success

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Family and Juvenile Law
Private Lives, Public Powers: Family Law Across Governmental Levels

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Institutional Advancement
Turning Alumni Feedback into Institutional Strategy: The NALP Foundation Law School Class of 2021 Alumni Employment & Satisfaction Study

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM International Human Rights and International Law Joint Program
New Voices in International Human Rights and International Law

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Internet and Computer Law, Sponsored by Insurance Law and Torts and Compensation Systems
Torts Meets Terminator: Civil Liability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Leadership
Impact, Excellence, Resilience, and Professional Integrity: Educating Lawyers as Leaders

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Presented by the Law School Admission Council
The Future of the Legal Profession: The Latest on Law School Enrollment

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Professional Responsibility
The Law Professor's Role in Protecting Our Legal System

2:35 PM - 3:50 PM Remedies
Emerging Voices in Remedies Law

2:35 PM - 5:25 PM Critical Theories, Sponsored by Civil Rights, Criminal Procedure, Education Law, Law and the Humanities, and Poverty Law
2025 to 2050: Legal Education in (what was?) the United States

2:45 PM - 4:45 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Brennan Center for Justice/American Constitution Society Panel: Democratic Reconstruction: Revitalizing the Constitution's Promise of Popular Sovereignty

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Election Law
Teaching Election Law

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
New Empirical Perspectives on Legal Education and the Legal Profession: Works in Progress

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM European Law, Sponsored by Comparative Law
Navigating US-Europe Relations in Turbulent Times: The Role of Law and Legal Academics

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Exhibit Hall Presentation by Law School Admission Council
LSAC - Let's Talk!

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Family and Juvenile Law
Works-In-Progress Panel

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Financial Regulation
The Evolving Landscape of Financial Regulation: Administrative Law, Agency Independence, and Beyond

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Immigration Law
Teaching Immigration Law in 2026 and Beyond

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Institutional Advancement
Campaign Strategies for Success

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM International Law, Sponsored by International Human Rights, Law in the Americas, and National Security Law
Teaching International Law & Intergroup Dialogue in Challenging Times

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Labor Relations and Employment Law, Sponsored by Employment Discrimination Law
The Future of Labor and Employment Law After Loper Bright and Wilcox

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Litigation, Sponsored by Civil Procedure
Private Litigation and the Future of Democracy?

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Post-Graduate Legal Education, Sponsored by Aspiring Law School Leaders, East Asian Law and Society, Global Engagement, Law School Administration and Finance
Adapting Post-Graduate Legal Education with Intention: Cultivating Excellence, Impact, and a Growth

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Professional Responsibility
Professional Responsibility New Voices Workshop

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Property Law
Junior Scholar Works-in-Progress Panel: New Voices in Property

4:10 PM - 5:25 PM Torts and Compensation Systems, Sponsored by Administrative Law, Insurance Law, and Internet and Computer Law
Tort Law and the Shrinking Administrative State

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference: Preliminary Thoughts on Legal Issues Relating to the Maduro Seizure

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Brennan Center for Justice/American Constitution Society Reception

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Section Leadership Session
Networking, and Navigating Your Role as a Section Leader

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Big 10 Law Schools Reception

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Reception for Jesuit Law Schools

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Annual Awards Celebration

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Law School Admission Council Dinner Celebrating Law School Admission Professionals and LSAC Volunteers

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Robert J. Kutak Award Reception

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Duke University School of Law Reception

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM New York University School of Law Faculty and Alumni Reception

7:00 PM - 8:45 PM Institutional Advancement Field Trip
Walking the Devil’s Empire: A Haunted History Walking Tour of New Orleans

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Section on Women in Legal Education Celebration Hosted by Tulane University Law School: Honoring the 2026 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Carolina Academic Press Reception for Authors and Friends

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM The University of Texas School of Law Texas Law Party

7:00 AM - 12:00 PM AALS Registration

7:00 AM - 1:00 PM Nursing Parents Room

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM International Law
Business Meeting

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM Coffee with Colleagues

7:30 AM - 12:00 PM AALS Advanced Workshop for Experienced Deans (Deans-only Program)

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM AALS Hot Topic Program
Holocaust, Antisemitism and the Law: New Law School Course

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM AALS Open Source Program
Practice Ready or Practice Myth? Rethinking Legal Education’s Role in Professional Preparation

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Academic Support
Fostering Impact and Resilience: Institutional Academic Support for Law Students and ASP Faculty

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Conflict of Laws
Extraterritoriality in Flux

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Critical Theories
New Voices in Critical Legal Theory

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM European Law
New Scholarship in European Law

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Financial Regulation
New Voices in Financial Regulation

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Institutional Advancement
Rediscover Discovery: How to Get in the Door with New Donors

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM International Human Rights and International Law Joint Program
Deportation, Due Process, and Human Dignity

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Law School Administration and Finance, Sponsored by Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research
Administration and Finance Bootcamp

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Minority Groups
From Exception to the Rule? Palestine, Campus Speech, and the Future of Academic Freedom

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Taxation, Sponsored by Poverty Law
Tariffs, Taxes, and Enforcement: Consequences for Richer and Poorer Americans

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Technology, Law and Legal Education
Technology, Law, and Legal Education Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Trusts and Estates, Sponsored by Internet and Computer Law, Securities Regulation, and Technology, Law and Legal Education
Privacy, Social Media, and the World of Trusts & Estates

8:15 AM - 2:00 PM Environmental Law Field Trip
Field Trip to St. James Parish with Rise St. James

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee with Colleagues

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Section on Community Economic Development Informal Networking

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Section on Criminal Procedure Informal Networking

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Section on Remedies Informal Networking

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM AALS Exhibit Hall - The Meeting Place

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM AALS Presidential Program
Rule of Law, Executive Orders, and the Legal Profession

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM AALS Arc of Career Program
Mid-Career Moves to the Tenure Track

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM AALS Discussion Group
Leaning into GenAI to Elevate Teaching Legal Skills

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Antitrust and Economic Regulation
Politics, Ideology, and Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Communication, Media and Information Law
Lawfare, Leverage, and Freedom of the Press

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Contracts, Sponsored by Commercial and Consumer Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law
The Modern State of Unconscionability

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Resilience through Tribal Self-Determination

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM International Human Rights and International Law Joint Program
Human Rights and Humanitarian Crises: The Gaza Situation

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Internet and Computer Law
Works-in-Progress Workshop

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Law and Religion
Free Exercise after Mahmoud v. Taylor

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Law School Administration and Finance, Sponsored by Institutional Advancement and Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School
Trends in Law Schools Financial Aid, Revenue, Admissions, and More

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Minority Groups
When and Where We Enter: Being Minority Law Teachers in Majority Classrooms

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM New Law Professors
New Scholars Works-in-Progress

9:35 AM - 10:50 AM Taxation
The Future of Tax Pedagogy: Coverage, Resources, and Innovation

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Coffee with Colleagues

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM AALS Awards Ceremony

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM AALS House of Representatives Meeting

2026 AALS Annual Meeting

Date: January 6 – 9, 2026
Location: New Orleans, LA

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Program

2026 AALS Annual Meeting Date: January 6 – 9, 2026 Location: New Orleans, LA

Extended Programs

Sessions by Date & Time

2026 AALS Annual Meeting

Date: January 6 – 9, 2026
Location: New Orleans, LA