Program

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

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM AALS Symposium
Panel 1: Justice Innovation

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM AALS Open Source Program
Bar-Busting Brilliance: Revolutionizing Support for Bar Exam Success

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research and Clinical Legal Education Joint Program
Panel 1: The Courage to Change How We Educate the Next Generation: Dispute Resolution and Professional Identity Formation Across the Curriculum

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Biolaw, Co-Sponsored by Law and Mental Disability, Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, and Law, Medicine, and Health Care
Reimagining Law and Policy Affecting Individuals with Substance Use Conditions

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Communication, Media & Information Law
Identifying and Addressing Current Threats to Journalism

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law and Interpretation
To Be Announced

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law and South Asian Studies
Democracy, Speech, and Protest in South Asia and the Diaspora

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law and the Humanities, Co-Sponsored by Critical Theories
Racial Terror and the Decline of the Liberal Legal Order

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Panel 1

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Part-Time Division Programs, Co-Sponsored by Academic Support
Panel 1: Courageous New Models: Innovative Alternatively Scheduled JD Programs – Hybrid Programs

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Remedies
Remedies at the Intersection of Public and Private Law

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Transactional Law and Skills
Teaching Transactional Law and Skills

8:00 AM - 11:20 AM AALS Symposium
Expanding Access to Justice Through Legal Tech Innovation and Education

8:00 AM - 11:20 AM Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research and Clinical Legal Education Joint Program
The Courage to Change How We Educate Our Next Generation

8:00 AM - 11:20 AM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Teaching in the Age of Generative AI: Beyond the Basics

8:00 AM - 11:20 AM Part-Time Division Programs, Co-Sponsored by Academic Support
Courageous New Models: Innovative Alternatively Scheduled JD Programs

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Immigration Law Field Trip
Angel Island Immigration Station at Angel Island State Park

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

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

9:10 AM - 10:10 AM AALS Symposium
Panel 2: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethical Legal Tech Innovation

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM AALS Discussion Group
Tightrope: Teaching Criminal Law to First-year Students in a Polarized Moment

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM AALS Presidential Session
Law Faculty Appointments Amid Challenges to Diversity and Equity

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Agricultural and Food Law
Courage in an Uncertain Era: Advocating to Transform the Food System

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research and Clinical Legal Education Joint Program
Panel 2: The Courage to Change How We Educate the Next Generation: Democracy, Autocracy, and Professional Identity

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Comparative Law, Co-Sponsored by European Law and East Asian Law and Society
From Courage to Action: The Role of Comparative Law to Promote Innovation and Sustainability

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Intellectual Property, Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law
Good, Bad, or Ugly: Is Intellectual Property Incentivizing the Wrong Kinds of Technologies?

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Law and Mental Disability, Co-Sponsored Biolaw, Law, Medicine and Health Care, and Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies
Legal Solutions to Combatting America’s Mental Health Crisis

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Law and Sports
Intercollegiate Athletics: The Only Constant is Change

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Panel 2

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Part-Time Division Programs, Co-Sponsored by Academic Support
Panel 2: Courageous New Models: Innovative Alternatively Scheduled JD Programs – Online Programs

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School, Co-Sponsored by Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals
A Year without Affirmative Action: Lessons & Next Steps from a Full Admission Cycle Post-SFFA

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Professional Responsibility
Professional Responsibility in An Age of Technological Change

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM State and Local Government Law and Communication, Media & Information Law Joint Program
Local Government: Innovation, AI Transformation, & Legislation

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Torts and Compensation Systems, Co-Sponsored by Insurance Law and Defamation and Privacy
Understanding the Third Restatement’s Approach to Dignitary Harm

10:20 AM - 11:20 AM AALS Symposium
Panel 2: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethical Legal Tech Innovation

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Commercial and Consumer Law
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Law, Medicine and Health Care
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Women in Legal Education
Award Ceremony

12:50 PM - 1:50 PM AALS Arc of Career Program
Focus on Faculty Governance: A Crucial but Often Overlooked Component of the Law Professor’s Professional Life

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM AALS Open Source Program
“Professional Identity” as Teachers Accounting for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Commercial and Consumer Law
Standing Up for Commercial and Consumer Law in an Age of Misinformation

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Criminal Procedure, Co-Sponsored by Evidence
Looking Back—and Forward—After Twenty Years of Crawford v. Washington

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Defamation and Privacy, Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law, Criminal Procedure, Employment Discrimination Law, Jurisprudence, and Poverty Law
Privacy and Racial Justice

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals
Making 303 Matter: Implementation in a Changing Landscape

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Election Law
More Money Than Ever: Campaign Spending, Campaign Finance Law, and American Democracy

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Co-Sponsored by Insurance Law and Law, Medicine and Health Care
Health Insurance and Disability Benefits: Emerging Issues in Employer-Sponsored Plans

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM European Law, Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law, International Human Rights, and Immigration Law
Border Externalization, Asylum, and the Rights of Others: European and U.S. Perspectives

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Firearms Law
Firearms and the Administrative State

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Internet and Computer Law
Financial Regulation in Cyberspace

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Islamic Law
Author-Meets-Readers: Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Law Libraries and Legal Information
Setting the Standard for Future Academic Law Libraries

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Women in Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by For the Law School Dean
Critiquing Courage in Action

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

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Comparative Law, Co-Sponsored by European Law and East Asian Law and Society
New Frontiers in Comparative Law: A Works-in-Progress Showcase

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Constitutional Law
The Many New (and Newer) Voices of Constitutional Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Criminal Law
Criminal Law Junior Scholars' Works-in-Progress

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM European Law
New Scholarship in EU Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Family and Juvenile Law
Teaching Parents, Children, and the State

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Intellectual Property
Emerging Voices in Intellectual Property Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM International Human Rights and International Joint Program
New Voices in Human Rights and International Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Jewish Law
Works-in-Progress on Jews and Judaism in American Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Co-Sponsored by Disability Law, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and Women in Legal Education
Teaching in the Crosshairs: Attacks on DEI and the Future of Legal Pedagogy

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Law, Medicine and Health Care
Emerging Issues in Law, Medicine, and Health Care Works in Progress Program

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Works-in-Progress

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Legislation & Law of the Political Process
New Voices in Legislation

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Minority Groups
Teaching Abolition

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM National Security Law
National Security Works-in-Progress Panel

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Poverty Law, Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education and Pro-Bono & Access to Justice
New Voices in Poverty Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Professional Responsibility
Professional Responsibility Section New Voices Workshop

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Property Law
Property Law New Voices

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Securities Regulation
New Scholars, Works-in-Progress in Securities Regulation

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
Works-in-Progress

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Technology, Law and Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Civil Rights and Internet and Computer Law
What Does the Future of Legal Technology Hold?

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Women in Legal Education
Navigating Classroom Disruptions and Interruptions

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM AALS Open Source Program
The Legal Academy’s Role in Re-Imagining Legal Education

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Children and the Law, Co-Sponsored by Education Law, Civil Rights, and Family and Juvenile Law
Law & the Political Participation of Children and Youth

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM East Asian Law & Society, Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law
Good Mirrors and Steady Bridges: Connections Among East Asian Legal Systems

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Islamic Law, Co-Sponsored by International Law
Islamic Law and Social Movements

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Jurisprudence
Philosophical Foundations of the Market

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Minority Groups
Lawyering for the Global Majority

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Property Law, Poverty Law, and Real Estate Transactions Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Environmental Law and State and Local Government
The Future of Housing

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Socio-Economics
Modern Monetary Theory, Pedagogy, and the Future of Socio-Economics

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?

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

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

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School
Business Meeting

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM State and Local Government
Business Meeting

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

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM AALS Registration

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

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM AALS Arc of Career Program
There Ought to Be a Law: Turning Your Scholarship into Legislation Through the Uniform Laws Process

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM AALS Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and Students
Difficult Conversions: Ideas for Navigating Conflicts in a Polarized World

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM AALS Discussion Group
Teaching State Constitutional Law– Why, How and, Who?

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Africa
African Perspectives on Human Rights

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Art Law, Co-Sponsored by Property Law
Graffiti: Property Rights v. Artist Rights

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Disability Law, Co-Sponsored by Administrative Law and Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies
The Administrative State and Disability Law

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Jewish Law, Co-Sponsored by Constitutional Law
The Uses and Limits of Definitions of Antisemitism for Addressing Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism on Campus

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law and the Social Sciences
Courage and Insights in Action: Leveraging Social Science for Legal Transformation

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law School Administration and Finance, Co-Sponsored by Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research
Administration and Finance Bootcamp, Parts 1 & 2

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Leadership, Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility
The Courageous Intersection of Leadership Education, Professional Responsibility, and Professional Identity Formation

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pro-Bono & Access to Justice, Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education, Poverty Law, and Technology, Law and Legal Education
AI and Access to Justice: Promise or Peril?

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Securities Regulation
AI, Securities Regulation, and Using Big Data to Explore Securities Regulation Issues

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Student Services
That “Safe” Word: Moving Students from Feeling Unsafe to Engaging Bravely in Discourse

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

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

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM AALS Presidential Keynote Plenary Session
Courage in Action

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM Environmental Law Field Trip
Angel Island

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM East Asian Law and Society and Comparative Law
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Family and Juvenile Law
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Institutional Advancement
Business Meeting and Swag Swap

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM International Human Rights
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Law and the Social Sciences
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Leadership
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Technology, Law and Legal Education
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Torts and Compensation Systems
Award Ceremony

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM AALS Award Ceremony

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

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM AALS Discussion Group
The Parenting Professor Penalty

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education and Legal Writing Reasoning, and Research
Maintaining Balance in Troubled Times

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Constitutional Law
Social Media and the First Amendment

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Criminal Law
Shaping Law Through Applied Legal Storytelling, Critical Theories, and Epistemology

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Family and Juvenile Law, Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law and Education Law
Rights, Regulation, and Resistance: Parents, Children, and the State

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples
Empowering Tribal Nations: 50 Years of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Institutional Advancement
Deans & Development Officers Program

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Journal Legal of Education
Roundtable Discussion

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Labor Relations and Employment Law and Socio-Economics Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Employment Discrimination Law
Socio-Economics and the Future of Labor Rights

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Law, Medicine and Health Care
Politics, Courts, and Health Equity

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Legislation & Law of the Political Process
Methodological Realignments in Statutory Interpretation?

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
LGBTQI+ Courageous Actors: A Historical Perspective on LGBTQI+ Crusaders in Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Technology, Law, and Legal Education
Speed Rounds: Exploring Legal Technology Teaching

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM AALS Reception

7:00 AM - 6:00 PM AALS Registration

7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Nursing Parents Room

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM National Security Law
Business Meeting

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

7:30 AM - 4:15 PM AALS Deans Forum Program

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Unincorporated
Agency, Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Constitutional Law
Teaching Constitutional Law in a Polarized World: Mandates, Academic Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Criminal Procedure
Criminal Procedure Beyond the Casebook

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Employment Discrimination Law, and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program
New Ideas in Workplace Law

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Environmental Law
Teaching Climate in Environmental Law and Beyond

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Family and Juvenile Law
Works-in-Progress in Family and Juvenile Law

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Institutional Advancement
Donor Investor Imperative

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Intellectual Property, Co-Sponsored by Internet Law, Technology, Law and Legal Education, and Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Intellectual Property Professors' Responsibilities: Legal Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Internet and Computer Law
Section on Internet and Computer Law Works-In-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law and the Humanities, Co-Sponsored by Legal History and Scholarship
Constructing Tradition: How the Humanities Inform the Role of Tradition in the Law

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law in the Americas, Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law, Global Engagement, and Teaching Methods
Modern Approaches to Transnational Collaborations & Instructional Design

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Courage in the Classroom: Embracing the New

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Minority Groups, Co-Sponsored by Race and Private Law
Private Law and Race Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Poverty Law, Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education and Pro-Bono & Access to Justice
Poverty Law Pedagogy

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Property Law
Property Pedagogy: Stuff You'd Like To Steal

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Scholarship, Co-Sponsored by Law Libraries and Legal Information and Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Supporting the Student Scholar

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Socio-Economics
New Voices in Socio-Economics and Law

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Technology, Law, and Legal Education
Technology, Law, and Legal Education Works-in-Progress Panel

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

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

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM AALS Discussion Group
Oops, Did it Again: Embracing Risk Taking and Mistake-Making

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM AALS Site Visit Workshop

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Academic Support
Enhancing Inclusivity: Reaching More Students Without Reinventing the Wheel

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Civil Rights, Co-Sponsored by Litigation and Minority Groups
The Future of Private Civil Rights Enforcement

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Criminal Law, Co-Sponsored by Criminal Procedure, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and Law, Medicine and Health Care
Pregnancy Crimes: New Research and Advocacy

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Disability Law, Co-Sponsored by Law and Mental Disability and Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies
The 25th Anniversary of Olmstead

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Education Law, Co-Sponsored Children and the Law and Family and Juvenile Law
The Role of Law and Policy in Supporting Student Mental Health

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Institutional Advancement
Reporter Roundtable: Media Trends and Legal Reporting

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM International Human Rights and International Joint Program
Litigation in the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Law and South Asian Studies
Book Talk: Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India (by Chandra, Kalantry, and Hubbard)

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Law in the Americas and International Law Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Critical Theories, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals, and Minority Groups
The Courage to Engage: Celebrating DEIB in the Face of DEIB Bans

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Post-Graduate Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Global Engagement
Is Post-Graduate Legal Education in the U.S. Still Globally Attractive?

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Scholarship, Co-Sponsored by Law and the Humanities
Scholarship, Co-Sponsored by Law and the Humanities - “Law and . . .”: Legal Scholarship and Interdisciplinary

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Trusts and Estates
The Challenging Role of Trust and Estate Fiduciaries

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Aging and the Law
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Constitutional Law
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Law in the Americas
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Litigation
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Minority Groups
Award Ceremony

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Scholarship
Award Ceremony

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM AALS Discussion Group
The ABA Reexamines Faculty Employment Security and Status, and the Academy Needs to Pay Attention

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Aging and the Law, Co-Sponsored by Law, Medicine, and Health Care and Trusts and Estates
Marginalization of Older Adults

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Criminal Procedure, Co-Sponsored by Criminal Law
New Perspectives on Fourth Amendment Suspicion

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Environmental Law
The Future of Transportation: Environmental Law in Motion

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Global Engagement, Co-Sponsored by Law in the Americas and Post-Graduate Legal Education
A.I. and International Law Students: The Promise and the Pitfalls

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Immigration Law
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Immigration Policy

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Institutional Advancement
Maximizing Social Media Impact for Law Schools

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Co-Sponsored by Disability Law, Minority Groups, Law and Mental Disability, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues and Women in Legal Education
Identity in the Legal Academy: How Law Professors’ Sense of Self Shapes Their Work

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Litigation, Co-Sponsored by Civil Procedure and Remedies
Forum Shopping in the Courts: Courage or Cowardice?

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM National Security Law and Insurance Law Joint Program
Insurance and National Security: Strange Bedfellows?

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM New Law Professors
Actionable Advice for Course Planning, Teaching, and Assessment

12:50 PM - 2:20 PM Scholarship, Co-Sponsored by Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education
Supporting the Mid-Career and Senior Scholar

1:00 PM - 1:10 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color - Welcome and Introduction

1:00 PM - 5:15 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color

1:10 PM - 2:10 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color - Session One: On Being an “Other” in the Classroom, Law School, and University

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

2:10 PM - 3:05 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color -Session Two: Navigating the Path to Tenure and Promotion

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM AALS Arc of Career Program
Transcending Law School Faculty Hierarchies

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM AALS Open Source Program
Lessons from Reproductive Justice: What the Movement Can Teach Other Doctrines

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM AALS Open Source Program
Crisis and Opportunity in Empirical Research and Advocacy: The Key Role of Scientific Legal Mapping

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Administrative Law
Swimming Against the Tide: New Administrative Law Scholarship in an Era of Judicial Formalism

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Antitrust and Economic Regulation
The Big Tech Antitrust Cases

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Civil Procedure
Innovation in Procedure

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Critical Theories
Panel 1

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, Co-Sponsored by Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals, Law and the Social Sciences, and Minority Groups
Panel 1: What We Know About Diversity in Legal Education Before and After the Students for Fair Admissions Decision

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Commercial and Consumer Law
Panel 1: Transparency in the Workplace

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Financial Regulation
Courage in the Face of Crisis

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Institutional Advancement
All Hand's on Deck: Collaborative Pathways to Alumni Engagement

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM National Security Law
National Security Law in the News Roundtable

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Natural Resources and Energy Law, Co-Sponsored by Environmental Law, Property Law, and State and Local Government Law
Water, Woe, and Wizardry in the Era of Climate Change

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Teaching Methods, Co-Sponsored by New Law Professors
Strangers in Our Classroom: Reconciling Reality With Expectations to Meet Students Where They Are

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Technology, Law and Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Internet and Computer Law
New Technologies: Problems and Opportunities in Practice and Education

2:40 PM - 6:00 PM Critical Theories
Advancing Academic Excellence Through ABA Standards on Academic Freedom, Antiracism, and Diversity

2:40 PM - 6:00 PM Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, Co-Sponsored by Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals, Law and the Social Sciences, and Minority Groups
The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of Legal Education and the Legal Profession

2:40 PM - 6:00 PM Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Commercial and Consumer Law
Panel 2: Worker Mobility

2:40 PM - 6:00 PM Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Commercial and Consumer Law
Good News for Workers? Progressive Developments in Workplace Law

3:20 PM - 4:15 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color -Session Three: Teaching

4:15 PM - 5:10 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color -Session Four: Scholarship

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM AALS Discussion Group
Critical Race Theory: Cultivating Courageous Pedagogies and Praxes to Protect our Democracy

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Unincorporated, Co-Sponsored by Technology, Law and Legal Education and Transactional Law and Skills
Technology’s Intersection with Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Unincorporated Associations

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Animal Law, Co-Sponsored by Agricultural and Food Law
Courageous Advocacy in Animal Law

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Constitutional Law
Evolution (or Revolution): Separation of Powers Jurisprudence and October Term 2023

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Contracts, Co-Sponsored by Teaching Methods, Transactional Law and Skills, and Technology, Law, and Legal Education
Teaching Contracts: NextGen Bar, the ABA and More

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Critical Theories
Panel 2

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, Co-Sponsored by Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals, Law and the Social Sciences, and Minority Groups
Panel 2: An Agenda for Future Research

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Evidence
Predictive Evidence: New Developments, New Concerns?

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Federal Courts
Legal Polarization and the Federal Judiciary

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Institutional Advancement
Issues Management Panel Discussion

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM International Human Rights
Critical Perspectives on International Criminal Law

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Taxation
The Expiration of the TCJA and the Future of Tax Policy

5:10 PM - 5:15 PM AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color - Closing Remarks

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM AALS Reception for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Critical Theories
Business Meeting

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

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Employment Discrimination Law
Business Meeting

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Law and the Social Sciences
Business Meeting

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Section Leadership Information Session & Breakfast

7:00 AM - 3:00 PM AALS Registration

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

7:30 AM - 1:00 PM AALS Advanced Workshop for Experienced Deans

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Academic Support
Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Agricultural and Food Law
Works-in-Progress on Agriculture, Food, & Related Topics

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education
Balance and Well-Being Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Civil Rights, Co-Sponsored by Critical Theories
How to Teach Justice in the Face of Nihilism

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Comparative Law, Co-Sponsored by European Law and East Asian Law and Society
How to Integrate Comparative Law in the Law School Curriculum

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Criminal Procedure
Criminal Procedure Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Education Law, Co-Sponsored by Teaching Methods
Teaching (Education) Law in a Time of Significant Legal Change

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession
New Perspectives on Empirical Studies of Legal Education and the Legal Profession

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Financial Regulation
Emerging & New Voices in Financial Regulation Law

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Immigration Law
New Voices in Immigration Law

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM International Law
Innovations in International Law Instructional Design

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law and Economics
Emerging Scholars Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law Libraries and Legal Information
Incorporating AI & the NextGen Bar into Legal Research Instruction

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies
Junior Scholars Works-in-Progress

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Scholarship
Here's My Idea…: Incubator Roundtable

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Teaching Methods, Co-Sponsored by Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Brave Baby Steps: Taking Small Risks With Your Teaching

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

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Alternative Dispute Resolution, Co-Sponsored For the Law School Dean, Leadership, and Student Services
Serving Our Campus Communities: Using ADR Expertise to Help Prevent and Resolve Conflict

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Conflict of Laws
Consent after Mallory

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Creditors' and Debtor's Rights
Uniformity and Local Rules

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Criminal Law, Co-Sponsored by Civil Rights and Criminal Procedure
Prison Law: Operating in the Shadows

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Election Law, Co-Sponsored by Legislation & Law of the Political Process
The Voting Rights Act at 60

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Law and Anthropology
Plural Publishing Personas: Writing for Law and Non-Law Audiences

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Law and Economics
Emerging Scholars Forum

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Law and Religion
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District: Establishment Clause Law and Precedents After the Lemon Test

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Law School Administration and Finance, Co-Sponsored by Institutional Advancement
Trends in Law School Administration, Finance and Advancement

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law
Nonprofit Sector Regulation and Reform

9:50 AM - 11:20 AM Socio-Economics
The Future of Socioeconomics

9:50 AM - 11:20 PM AALS Discussion Group
Developing Courageous Leaders: Trailblazing and Diverse Approaches to Leadership Education for Law Students

9:50 AM - 11:20 PM AALS Open Source Program
The Lawyers Justice Corps: A Link Between Access to Justice and Lawyer Licensing

10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Field Trip
GLBT Historical Society

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Institutional Advancement
Networking Field Trip to Sausalito

1:00 PM - 2:20 PM AALS House of Representatives

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Coffee with Colleagues

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Administrative Law
New Voices in Administrative Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Business Associations
Business Law Works-in-Progress

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Civil Rights
New Voices in Civil Rights

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Critical Theories
Critical Thought and Pedagogy for Constitutional Law

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Defamation and Privacy
Privacy and Racial Justice

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Election Law
Election Law Section's Works-in-Progress Session

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Law and Sports
Sports Law Section: Works-in-Progress

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Law Libraries and Legal Information
Considering the ABA Standards for Law Libraries

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Natural Resources and Energy Law, and Environmental Law Joint Program
Environmental and Natural Resources Law Joint Works in Progress Session

2:40 PM - 4:10 PM Taxation
Teaching Tax: Textbooks, Tools, and Techniques

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Reception for Legal Educators From Outside the US

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Admiralty and Maritime Law
Legal Impediments to Offshore Wind Energy Turbines

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Art Law
Recovering Long Lost Looted Art: Opportunities, Hurdles, and Statutory Protections

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Business Associations
Courage in Business

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Community Economic Development, Co-Sponsored by Environmental Law
Clean Energy and Community Economic Development

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Economic Globalization and Governance
To Be Announced

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Employment Discrimination Law, Co-Sponsored by Labor Relations and Employment Law
Title VII at 60: Where are we headed? Is this the time for a fresh start?

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Law in the Americas, Co-Sponsored by Environmental Law, Global Engagement and International Human Rights
Climate Change Activism & International Litigation

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Legal History
The Role of History in the 2023-2025 Supreme Court Term

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Race and Private Law
Does Race Matter in Private Law

2025 AALS Annual Meeting

Date: January 7 – 11, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA

Meeting Home Speakers Registration

Extended Programs

Sessions by Date & Time

Program

2025 AALS Annual Meeting Date: January 7 – 11, 2025 Location: San Francisco, CA Meeting Home Speakers Registration

Extended Programs

Sessions by Date & Time

2025 AALS Annual Meeting

Date: January 7 – 11, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA

Meeting Home Speakers Registration