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Schedule Registration Housing |
| Thursday, January 6, 2000 1:45–5:00 p.m. |
Marriott Ballroom Salon III Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Lobby Level |
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Joint Program of the AALS Executive Committee and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
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| Judith W. Wegner, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and University of North Carolina |
| Looking Inward, Looking Outward: Innovative Research on Legal Education | As teachers and scholars we often concentrate our attention on distinctive developments concerning teaching and scholarship in our substantive fields of expertise. We are nonetheless united by shared interests in fundamental questions that permeate the overall enterprise of legal education. Such questions concern such issues as who we are, what we do, and where we go from here as we enter the next century of legal education. On the occasion of the Association of American Law Schools’ centennial celebration, it seems wholly appropriate to join together in looking both inward and outward for insights provided by innovative research on legal education. The program has been developed in conjunction with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which has recently commenced a series of comparative studies on professional education in the fields of law, engineering, the ministry, social work, medicine, and teaching. Following a series of presentations concerning cutting-edge developments of special interest to legal educators, the program will include ample time for a roundtable discussion among panelists and members of the audience. |
| Who We Are |
| Moderator: Judith W. Wegner, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Menlo Park, California, and University of North Carolina |
| Selecting Students: LSAC Skill Survey and Its Implications for Legal Educators |
| Richard Adams, Director of Test Development, Law School Admission Council, Newtown, Pennsylvania | Faculty Roles and Rewards: Fresh Insights About the Professoriate |
| Dr. Eugene Rice, Director, AAHE Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards, American Association of Higher Education, Washington, D.C. | Our Colleagues at the Bar: Learning from Law Graduates |
| David L. Chambers, University of Michigan |
| What We Do |
| Moderator: Rachel Moran, University of California at Berkeley |
| Cognitive and Moral Development: The Workways and Lawyering Programs |
| Peggy Cooper Davis, New York University | Learning Dynamics: Stereotype Threat and Approaches to Intervention |
| Claude M. Steele, Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California | Becoming Lawyers: The Transcendant Lessons of the Law School Experience |
| Richard H. Sander, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Where We Go From Here: Roundtable Discussion of Research Challenges and Opportunities |
| Moderator: Rennard Strickland, University of Oregon |
| A Research Agenda for Legal Education? |
| Gita Wilder, Social Research Scientist, Law School Admission Council, Newtown, Pennsylvania | A Research Agenda for Professional Education? |
| William M. Sullivan, Foundation Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Menlo Park, California |
| Speakers at this roundtable discussion will be joined by panelists from earlier in the program for active dialogue with members of the audience. |