Session Details

January 5, 2021
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Event: 2021 Annual Meeting

Session Type: AALS Programs

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The first-ever online AALS Awards Ceremony recognizes excellence in legal education and will honor the AALS Impact Award Winners, Scholarly Papers Competition Winners, Section Award Winners, and Teachers of the Year.

The AALS Executive Committee established the Impact Award this year to honor individuals or a group of individuals who have had a significant positive impact on legal education or the legal profession. The Inaugural Impact Award will be presented to the five law deans who created the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project: Danielle M. Conway (Penn State Dickinson Law), Danielle Holley-Walker (Howard University School of Law), Kimberly Mutcherson (Rutgers Law School), Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Boston University School of Law), and Carla D. Pratt (Washburn University School of Law).

For 35 years, AALS has hosted the Scholarly Papers Competition for law school faculty members in the field for five years or fewer. In addition, several of the association’s 104 sections host awards honoring excellence within different academic disciplines and legal education areas of interest. The winner of these awards will be recognized during the ceremony.

The ceremony will also recognize faculty who have been honored by their schools as 2020 Teachers of the Year.