At its May meeting, the Executive Committee revised Executive Committee Regulation
12.1(a). The revision is to change the current language requiring 50 or more full time faculty
members or professional staff from at least
3 schools to 25 schools. The goal for changing this requirement is to involve a broader number
of faculty from member schools in the formation and support of a new Section. Following is the
full text of the revised Executive Committee Regulation 12.1(a) with the change bolded.
12.1 Establishment of Sections
(a) Upon receipt of a petition signed by at least fifty (50) or more full-time
faculty members or professional staff from at least twenty five (25) or more member schools,
the Executive Committee may provisionally establish a Section. The petition shall state the
proposed name of the Section, the subjects that will be the Section's concern and the activities
and programs contemplated for the Section. The petition shall identify those subjects of the
Section's concerns, activities and programs that do not substantially duplicate those of an
existing Section. If the subject that is the concern of a proposed Section appears also to be in
material part the concern of an existing Section, the Executive Director shall inform the
officers and other members of the executive committee of the existing Section, and shall inform
the Executive Committee whether there is any material duplication
of the subject and, if so, whether, in their opinion, the interests of this Association and
legal education would be better served by establishing the proposed Section and yielding to it
the whole or part of the subject that would otherwise be duplicated by establishing the Section.
The petition shall also state the names of persons to be the initial officers and executive
committee of the Section, these persons to serve until the first Annual Meeting of the
Association after granting provisional status to the proposed Section. Proposed bylaws shall
accompany the petition. If the Executive Committee finds that (i) the petition and the proposed
bylaws conform to the requirements of this chapter, (ii) that the subject that is the concern of
the proposed Section does not substantially duplicate that of another Section or that an
appropriate re-allocation of subject may be made to avoid material duplication, and (iii) that
the establishment of the Section may serve the purposes of the Association, it shall grant
provisional status to the Section. Pending the grant, or after the denial, of provisional
status, a person, without the consent of the Executive Committee, may not take any action on
behalf of a proposed Section other than actions necessary to petition for provisional status.
In accordance with Bylaw 5-4, unless objection is received from at least ten member
schools within 60 days of mailing this memorandum, Executive Committee Regulation 12.1 (a) as
amended will continue in effect. If your school objects to any of the new regulations, the
objection should state the specific letter of the regulation to which you are objecting and
the reasons for your objection.
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