To encourage and
recognize excellent legal scholarship and to broaden participation by new law
teachers in the Annual Meeting program, the association sponsored a call for
papers for the 31st annual AALS Scholarly Papers Competition. Those who would
have been full-time law teachers at an AALS member or fee-paid school for five
years or less on July 1, 2016, were invited to submit a paper on a topic
related to or concerning law. A committee of established scholars reviewed the
submitted papers with the authors’ identities concealed. The author of the
winning papers will present and discuss their papers at this session.