AALS Arc of Career Program

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Session Type: AALS Arc of Career Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: Hilton New Orleans Riverside

Room: Grand Salon Section 13

Floor: First Floor

This program focuses on how and when to make plans to retire as a law professor. Discussion will encompass emotional and psychological challenges like how do you perceive the “new you”? Another concern involves the impact of your retirement upon the law school and broader community such as remaining faculty, staff, students, and alums.

We expect program attendees to gain:

• A better sense of significant questions to ask while preparing for life beyond the legal academy.
• Further insight into their own aspirations and apprehensions regarding the post legal academy adventure.
• A better appreciation of how personal identity (for example, race, sex, sexual orientation, ideological perspective ….) impact your decision making process and your experience in transitioning from full time law teaching.
• A preliminary strategy for prioritizing and identifying post legal academy activities.
• A sense of expectation and encouragement regarding the law school professor “afterlife” rather than dread and fear.