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Tweeting, Gramming: Social Media for the Legal Academic

The Role of Women as International, Regional, and National Judges

The Unequal Workplace: Well-Being at Stake

A Time of Momentum in Child Welfare Advocacy, Policy, and Research

Beyond the Socratic Method - Thinking Entrepreneurially about Executive Programs

New Frontiers in State Post-Conviction Litigation

Reconsidering Disability Benefit Programs

Democracy and Democratic Deficits in Economic Globalization and Governance

Immediate Challenges in Consumer Financial Protection

The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Law Firm

Law School Business Boot Camp for New Deans, Associate Deans and New Business Officers

Transnational Environmental Issues & the Role of States, Provinces, Cities & Indigenous Communities

Transforming Faculty Hiring in 2020

How Well Are Law Schools Imparting the Value of Public Interest, Leadership, and Serving Others?

The Nineteenth Amendment at 100: Its Contribution and Legacy

Divergent Legacies – The Constitution and the Modern Right to Vote

An Empirical Look: How Well Are We Preparing Law Students to Become Ethical Leaders Who Serve Others?

How Might Stakeholders Affect How These Values Are Imparted?

The Present and Future of the Right to Vote

Regulatory Abdication and Student Loans

Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy Best Practices and Standards Development

The Class Divide: Academic and Practical Strategies for Current Law Students in Serious Financial Need

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Legal Issues Relating to Autonomous and Remote Controlled Ships

Race and Racism in Food and Agriculture

Rising Tensions Among Corporate Stakeholders

Teaching Criminal Law and Criminalization: Race, Class, Gender, and Beyond

Social Media Content Moderation and the Future of Free Speech

Reaching Well-Being: The Role of Employers and Government

The Rise of Suicide and Diseases of Despair: Legal Obstacles and Solutions

Data Privacy: Comparative Perspectives

Roundtable: The Duty of Technology Competence: Understanding the Standards and Preparing Our Students

Reflections and Remarks on Leadership, Public Interest Lawyering, and the Legal Profession

DC Central Kitchen: Evening Meal Preparation

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Interactive Breakout Session

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

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Initial Meeting

Authors Meet Readers: Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking and Changing Constitutions by Richard Albert

Authors Meet Readers: Law and Macroeconomics: Legal Responses to Recessions by Yair Listokin

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Becoming an Associate Dean: New Challenges the Multiple Associate Deans Model Brings to Managing Communications and Conflict Among Faculty and Administration

Encore Faculty: Further Reflections on Preparing for Life Beyond the Legal Academy

Ranking Legal Scholarship: U.S. News & World Report’s New Metric and Its Effect on the Legal Academy

Teaching Social Justice in a "Hip Hop and the Law" Course

Emerging Issues in Elder Law

Commercial Law in the Digital Age

Danger, Drama, and Self-Defeat? Diagnosing What Faces "The Press"

The Future of Affirmative Action

Immigration Control and Environmental Regulation: Toward Justice?

Law, Representation, and Knowledge of Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples in American Democracy

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Sports, Torts, and Health: The Role of Law in Protecting Athlete Welfare

Improving Legal Education with Data from the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE)

A Century of Women's Suffrage

Professional Independence and National Security

So You're a New Law Prof - What Now? What We Wish We Had Known

Administering the 2017 Tax Act: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities

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Leadership, Innovation and Building a Lasting Culture

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The Role of Universities and Law Schools in Constitutional Democracy

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Gender Matters: A Guide to Growing Women’s Philanthropy

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Learning from Lawyer-Leaders

So You Want to Publish a Book?

How Does a Law School Successfully Recruit and Retain a Diverse Faculty?: A Roundtable Discussion

The Multi-Generational Teaching of Legal Writing

Impeachment

How to Build an Effective, "Supreme Court-Proof" Pipeline Program

Access to the Legal Profession as a Pillar of Democracy: Bar Exam Scores and the Future of Diversity

Crossing Borders: Comparative International Animal Law

Exploring Immigrant Justice from Intersectional Perspectives

Non-Disclosure Agreements and Contract Law

Algorithmic Knowledge: Law, Science and Democracy

What Is a Platform and How Do We Regulate?

Learning from Lawyer-Leaders Throughout the Profession

New Voices in Tax Law & Policy

I, Liability: The Coming Revolution in Robot Law

Gender Equity at Work

Gender Equity in Law School and University Leadership

Gender Equity in the Tenure-Stream Process

Gender Equity in Contract Positions

Gender Equity in the Legal Profession

Gender Equity in the Workplace

Gender Equity and our Students

Agency Action on Environmental and Natural Resources Law in the Trump Era

Building and Sustaining Alliances as an Associate Dean

The Erosion of Civil Rights and Its Impact on U.S. Families and Children

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“Whole-Building” Approach to Leadership Development: Role of Librarians

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New Voices in Business Law

New Voices in Civil Rights

New Voices in Immigration Law: Works in Progress

Teaching Intellectual Property Law

New Voices in Human Rights and International Law

Junior Faculty Works in Progress for Law, Medicine and Health Care

New Voices in Legislation

Global Perspectives: Creating a Law School Culture that Promotes Student Well-Being

Professional Responsibility Junior Scholars Works-in-Progress

New Voices in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law

New Perspectives in Trusts and Estates

Teaching Law in a #MeToo World

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Authors Meet Readers: Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia by Meera E. Deo

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The Classic Film Selection: All the President's Men (1976)

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Deaning in an Age of Rapid Change

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Time-Turning, Invisibility, and Other Magic Mentoring Tricks

Reproductive Rights and Justice in Law and Politics

Law as Data: Text Analysis and the Future of Legal Scholarship

Overlooked Procedure: Rethinking Canonical Approaches to Civil Procedure

Implications of the 2020 Census for Traditionally Marginalized Communities

Agency, Dignity, and Race in the Formation and Implementation of Criminal Procedure

Children's Rights at 30: Challenges for the Next Generation

Economics of Consumer Protection

Pro Bono and Public Service: Pillars of Democracy and the Legal Profession

Markets and Regulation: The Shifting Context of Transactional Practice

Estate Planning in the Modern Age: How Technology and Societal Trends Change the Landscape

We Are the Pillars: Inclusive and Sustainable Student Services

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Criminal Law and Shared Ethical Life

Cultivating the Hard Skills of the Whole Lawyer: Lawyers as Leaders

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Still Torts?

Panel 1: Criminal Law and Shared Ethical Life; Panel 2: Experimental Jurisprudence

Advancing Health Equity by Addressing Social Determinants of Health, Poverty, and Racial Disparities

Educating the Modern Citizen-Lawyer: Helping Students Find Their Role in the Grand Mosaic of Society

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Guided Tour of Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute

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Beyond the Green Zone: Supporting Veterans and Military-Connected Law Students

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Finding Their Voices: Student Participation in Live Law Making

Experimental Jurisprudence

The Second Amendment at the Supreme Court and the Future of Heller

Entity Selection in the 21st Century

Contracting Over Conflicts: Choice-of-Law Clauses, Forum Selection Clauses, Arbitration Clauses

The Challenge of International Law in Dealing with the Causes of the Global Refugee Crisis: Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Gross Human Rights Abuses Perpetrated by State and Non-State Actors

Worklaw Reform: Federal Challenges, State Opportunities

Measuring Scholarly Impact: Are Citation Metrics the Right Fit for Law Schools?

Legislative Constitutionalism: Congress in Times of Constitutional Crisis

American Democracy 2020: Commemorating the 15th & 19th Amendments amidst the Third Wave of Autocratization

Confronting the Big Questions About the Regulation of the Legal Profession

Reflections On and Lessons From “Foreclosed," a New Book by Professor Chris Odinet

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The Citizen Lawyer Education in the Trump Era

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LGBTQ+ Student Inclusion and Support: From the Classroom to Lawyer Leaders

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On Being an Other in the Classroom, Law School, and University

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Changing Concepts of International Economic Security & the Law

Democracy Under Siege: Gerrymandering, Racial Politics and Impeachment

Galvanizing Reform for Plea Bargaining in White Collar and Other Criminal Crimes

Challenges to the Rule of Law: Lessons from and for Asia

Responses to Income Inequality: Can Employment Discrimination Law Help Close the Wage and Wealth Gaps?

Federal Courts at the Border

Regulating the Insurance Industry: Federal, State, and Private Approaches

Medical Humanities and the Law

Litigating Voting Rights Remedies in the Trump Era

Looking Ahead: The Changing Legal Landscape of Race Conscious Admissions

Land Use Reform and the Housing Crisis: Is 100 Years of Exclusionary Zoning Enough?

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Expanding the Classroom: Benefits and Challenges of Co-Teaching

A Century Since Suffrage: How Did We Get Here? Where Will We Go? How Will We Get There?

Navigating the Path to Tenure and Promotion

Hot Topics in Law Student Services

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Teaching

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Critical Race Theory in a Global Context: Practices and Discourses of Racialization Across Borders

Agriculture and Food, Environmental, and Natural Resources and Energy Works in Progress

Teaching Comparative Civil Rights Law

Junior Scholar Works-In-Progress

The Place of East Asian Law Scholars and Teachers in American Law Schools

New and Emerging Voices in Workplace Law

Pedagogy Session: Using Formative and Summative Assessments in Family Law

New Voices in Intellectual Property Scholarship

International and Foreign Legal Research Resources at the Law Library of Congress

New Voices on Legal Interpretation

New Scholars Showcase

New Voices in Property Law

Emerging Voices in Securities Regulation

Socio-Economic Pedagogy and Electoral Politics in an Increasingly Polarized Society

Scholarship

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A Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Fintech Innovations

Breastfeeding Law and Policy

Recent Developments: How Easily Can Agencies Change Regulatory Policy in Immigration & Civil Rights?

Federalism and the Relationship Between State and Federal Constitutional Law

Antitrust Reform

The New "Oppression": Socially Advantaged Classes and Civil Rights

Reflections on a Distinguished Career: Mark Tushnet's Contributions to Comparative Law

The Opioid Epidemic and its Evidentiary Challenges

So You Want to be a Dean: The Road to the Deanship - Reflections and Advice

Empirical Research in Business Law Works-in-Progress

Becoming Authoritative

The Future of the Establishment Clause, and the Court’s Shadow Docket

The Next Generation of Assessment: Non-Cognitive, Diagnostic, and Formative Assessment for Law School Success

Statutes as a Constraint on the President in National Security

Pedagogy and Pragmatism: Challenges of Teaching Part-Time Students

The Power of Police Patrol

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Roundtable on the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and the Consumer Protection Act

Is it Time to Self-Regulate? Devising More Formal Standards and Guidelines in Post-Graduate Legal Education

Populism, Electoral Politics, and Socio-Economic Justice

21st Century Policing

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The Limits of Patrol

When Truth is Not Truth: Teaching Law Students in an Era Of "Alternative Facts"

Populism, Electoral Politics, and Socio-Economic Justice in 2020

Teaching Abroad: For Visitorships, Sabbaticals, Retirement and Summer Programs

En/Countering Race, Racism, and Racial Distinctions in Tax Law

Comparative Perspectives on Controversial Public Monuments

European and Comparative Law Works in Progress: Gender Equality, Surveillance Capitalism, and Empires

Islamic Law and the Idea of Mass Incarceration

New Jurisprudence Scholars Panel

Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation: Will Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Make a Difference?

Law School Business Update for Deans, Associate Deans and Other Law School Leaders

Law School Rankings: Conversation and Q&A with Robert Morse and Kellye Testy

Developing Effective Communication Skills in an Era of Polarization

Charitable Giving and the 1969 Tax Act: 50 Years Later

Policing Theory and Practice

Bursting the Bubble: Developing Cultural Competency in the Classroom

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Racial and Economic Justice

Discrimination

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If, How, and When: Politics and Priorities in the Classroom

Representation, Voting, and Sustainable Constitutional Democracy

Administrative Law Perspectives Beyond the Liberal/Conservative Divide: A Panel Discussion

Downward Trend of International Recruitment and an Uncertain Political Climate

Media Outlook 2020: Breaking News in Legal and Higher Education

Museums, Virtual Museums and Intellectual Property

Islamic Law and the Problem of Slavery

Turning Fee into Free: Strategies and Success in Democratizing Access to Law

2020 Visions in Biological Innovation, Medicine, and the Public Health

Roundtable on Achieving Greater Economic Justice as a Means of Achieving Greater Racial Justice

Technology

Legal Workplace Inequities and Impact on Women’s Health

Graduate Programs for Non-US Lawyers Offered by Law Schools Abroad

Scaling the Invisible Wall: Bureaucratic Controls Over Legal Immigration

What Translates? Investigating Those Aspects of U.S. Law That Are Viewed as Inspiring and Aspirational

Corpus Linguistics and Intellectual Property

Neuroscience and the Law

The (Ir)Relevance of Law in a Minority-Majority America

National Security Law Works-in-Progress

Proposals for Law Journal Reform & Journal/Author Best Practices: Notice and Comment

Robotics and AI: Legal and Ethical Frameworks

Reform

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