Scholarly Papers

To encourage and recognize excellent legal scholarship and to broaden participation by new law teachers in the Annual Meeting program, the Association is sponsoring its twenty-second annual Call for Scholarly Papers. Click the paper's title to view the paper (PDF).

Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand (Northeastern) is the winner of this year’s AALS Scholarly Papers Competition. Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand will present her paper, “Human Worth as Collateral,” at the AALS Scholarly Papers Presentation. The program will be held from 4:00 to 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, January 4, 2007 in the Hoover Room on the Mezzanine Level of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

The Scholarly Papers Committee also chose two papers to receive Honorable Mention Awards: “Essentially a Mother” by Professor Jennifer Hendricks ( Tennessee) and “Underenforcement,” by Professor Alexandra Natapoff (Loyola-Los Angeles). Professors Hendricks and Natapoff will also have an opportunity to speak about their papers at the Scholarly Papers program at the Annual Meeting.

Copies of the winning and honorable mention papers will be available at the program. The chair of the 2006 AALS Committee to Review Scholarly Papers is N. William Hines ( Iowa). The other members of the committee are: Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke); Joshua Dressler (Ohio State); Berta E. Hernandez-Truyol (Florida); Ruth L. Okediji (Minnesota); Mark d. Rosen (Chicago-Kent) , 2006 Winner; and Robin L. West (Georgetown).