Memorandum 04-02

January 28, 2004

To: Deans of Member Schools and Members of the House of Representatives

From: Joyce Saltalamachia

Subject: Executive Committee Regulations

At its meeting on January 3, 2004, the AALS House of Representatives had before it Memorandum 03-43, dated November 25, 2003, clarifying AALS bylaws pertaining to membership requirements, and relating them to the core values of the AALS. The House adopted the proposed bylaw revisions. Memorandum 03-43 also set out correlated the Executive Committee Regulations to the revised bylaws and changed the numbering of the pertinent Executive Committee Regulations.

Because of these changes the numbers of the other Executive Committee Regulations chapters now need to be changed to accommodate the effect of the new numbers for the Executive Committee Regulations relating to membership requirements. At its January 2004 meeting, the Executive Committee approved renumbering the Executive Committee Regulations chapters .

Attached are the bylaws that were adopted by the House earlier this month and the correlating Executive Committee Regulations (in italics) that were promulgated by the Executive Committee. Also attached is the renumbering of the remaining Executive Committee Regulations that was promulgated by the Executive Committee at its January 2004 meeting.

In accordance with AALS Bylaw Section 5-4 on Regulations and Rulings, Executive Committee Regulations promulgated by the Executive Committee will be in effect unless objection is received from ten member schools within 60 days of mailing. That bylaw section reads:

Section 5-4. Regulations and Rulings.
In interpreting and implementing the Association's requirements as set forth in Article 6, the Executive Committee may promulgate general regulations and, in individual instances, make rulings. A copy of a regulation promulgated by authority of this section shall be sent promptly to each member school. If within sixty days of mailing, ten member schools express objection to the regulation, it shall not become effective, but shall be laid before the next Annual Meeting for approval or disapproval. If objection is not so expressed, the regulation shall be a continuingly authoritative indication of Association policy unless modified by action at an Annual Meeting or by subsequent Executive Committee resolution. The Association at an Annual Meeting may by majority vote, upon motion of a member school, adopt, amend, or repeal a Regulation, provided the notice requirements for amending the bylaws have been followed.

Each of the new Executive Committee Regulations and the revised numbering thus will become effective unless ten member schools object to one or more of them before March 31, 2004. If your school has objection to any of the new regulations, the objection should indicate the specific number of the regulation to which you are objecting and the reasons for your objection. Please note that an objection by an individual faculty member is not sufficient to constitute an objection by a "member school". The objection must be by the school and should, therefore, be filed only after an appropriate institutional process for deciding to object is followed.

cc: Executive Committee
Deans of Fee-paid Law Schools

JS:bas

Attachments (Click here for the Executive Committee Regulations)
Click here for the Bylaws