Sessions Information

  • January 8, 2016
    8:30 am - 10:15 am
    Session Type: AALS Arc of Career Programs
    Session Capacity: 160
    Hotel: New York Hilton Midtown
    Room: Gramercy East
    Floor: Second Floor
    When law professors who are not on the tenure track are institutionally marginalized by non-existent or reduced contracts, lack of voting rights, and noncompetitive salaries, the Arc of the Career becomes distorted. The non-tenured, tenuously contracted or non-contracted professor spins in a whirling dervish to achieve professional success in the face of a potentially meaningless result. We work diligently to improve and update our courses, participate in national legal education associations, run conferences, give talks, write papers, blog online, counsel students, provide both public service and service within our law schools, and obtain book contracts. Nonetheless, we are confined to a status restricting us and holding us back from having the freedom to fully advance in our professional careers. For such members of the academy, there is no arc, as we are prevented from reaching the peak or, alternatively, we reach the peak only to find it is a cliff rather than the anticipated slow, gentle descent.
Session Speakers
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Moderator and Speaker

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Speaker

University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Speaker

Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Speaker

Drake University Law School
Speaker

Session Fees
  • [5076] NEW: Arc of the Career Program – Impossible Realities, Infinite Loops and Movable Staircases: $0.00