Association of American Law Schools
2001 Annual Meeting
Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - Saturday, January 6, 2001
San Francisco, California
Wednesday, January 3, 2001
2:00-3:45 p.m.

Continental Ballroom 5
Hilton San Francisco and Towers
Ballroom Level

Joint Program of Sections on Clinical Legal Education, Family and Juvenile Law and Teaching Methods

Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, University of New Mexico, and Chair, Section on Clinical Legal Education
Jana B. Singer, University of Maryland, and Chair, Section on Family and Juvenile Law
Terri LeClercq, The University of Texas, and Chair, Section on Teaching Methods
Jane C. Murphy, University of Baltimore, Program Chair

The Role of the Academy in Improving Family Law Practice

Moderator:

Jane C. Murphy, University of Baltimore

Speakers:
The Honorable Judith M. Billings, Judge, Utah Court of Appeals, Salt Lake City, Utah
Lawrence H. Stotter, Esquire, San Francisco, California
Lee E. Teitelbaum, Cornell Law School
Paulette J. Williams, University of Tennessee

Legal education and scholarship is often criticized as being too removed from the world of practice. The bench and bar challenge our scholarship and teaching on the ground that they do little to improve the law or practice. But efforts by family law scholars working on projects like the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution have made significant contributions that have had an impact on both the teaching and the practice of family law. This program will bring academicians together for a discussion on these issues with a panel that includes a leading family law judge, family law teachers and scholars, and a practitioner to discuss these issues.

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