October 20, 2004
MEMORANDUM 04-32
TO: Deans of Member Schools and
Members of the AALS House of Representatives
FROM: Claudio Grossman, Chair
Committee on Nominations
SUBJECT: Nominations for President-Elect and for New Members of the Executive Committee
The Committee on Nominations for 2005 Officers and Members of the Executive Committee met in Washington on September 28, 2004. The members of the committee are: J. Clifton Fleming, Jr., Brigham Young University; Laura N. Gasaway, University of North Carolina; Claudio Grossman, American University, Chair; Daniel Louis Keating, Washington University; W.H. Knight, Jr., University of Washington; Eleanor Swift, University of California, Berkeley; and Michael K. Young, University of Utah.
At the meeting of the House of Representatives on Friday, January 7, 2005, the committee will place the following names in nomination:
For the Position of President-Elect:
Judith C. Areen, Georgetown University
For the Position of Members of the Executive Committee – Three-Year Term:
Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston
Stephanie M. Wildman, Santa Clara University
Continuing Members of the Executive Committee: Those members of the Executive Committee who will be continuing on the committee in 2005 are:
N. William Hines, University of Iowa
Gerald Torres, University of Texas
Term expiring 2005
Alison Grey Anderson, University of California at Los Angeles
Allen K. Easley, William Mitchell College of Law
Term expiring 2006
Retiring Members of the Executive Committee. At the conclusion of the Association’s House of Representatives meeting on Friday, January 7, 2005, at the Annual Meeting, three members of the Executive Committee will have completed their terms. Mark V. Tushnet will have completed his term as Immediate Past President, Nancy Rogers and Richard A. Danner will have completed their three-year terms.
Biographical Sketches of the Nominees. The Directory of Law Teachers contains brief biographical sketches of the three nominees. For your convenience we have provided the following, more comprehensive, biographical information.
Judith Areen is the Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her A.B from Cornell University in 1966 and her J.D. from Yale in 1969. She became an Associate Professor at Georgetown University in 1972, where she became Professor in 1976 and Associate Dean in 1984. Between 1989 and 2004, she served as Executive Vice President for Law Affairs of the University and Dean of the Law Center.
Professor Areen has written numerous law review articles and books in the fields of family law, constitutional law, and health law. She is the author of Cases and Materials on Family Law (4 th edition 1999) and Cases and Materials on Family Law [with King, Goldberg, Gostin (3 rd edition forthcoming)]. She was chosen on the basis of her scholarship to be a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. during 1988-1989.
Professor Areen has worked in the private sector and in government at the local and federal levels. Between 1977 and 1980 she served in the Office of Management and Budget as Director of the Federal Legal Representation Project which analyzed the work of more than 14,000 lawyers in the Executive Branch. In 1979, she became General Counsel and Domestic Reorganization Coordinator of the President’s Reorganization Project. She served as Special Counsel to the White House Task Force on Regulatory Reform during the same period.
Professor Areen, who is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia, is a member of the American Law Institute, and a director of the Pro Bono Institute and Equal Justice Works. She has served as a Council Member for the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, on the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, and as a governor of the District of Columbia Bar .
Professor Areen has served on several AALS committees including the Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting, Special Committee on Disability Issues, Nominating Committee, and Executive Committee. She has also chaired the AALS Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care.
Michael A. Olivas received his B.A. in 1972 from the Pontifical College Josephinum, his M.A. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1977 from Ohio State University, and his J.D. in 1981 from Georgetown University. He became Senior Fellow and Assistant Director for Research, Institute for the Study of Educational Policy, at Howard University in 1977. In 1979, he became Director of Research for the LULAC National Educational Service Centers. He joined the University of Houston law faculty in 1982, where he holds the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair. He directs the UH Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance.
Professor Olivas has served on several AALS committees, including the Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting, Nominating Committee, Special Committee on Recruitment of Minorities, and several planning committees. He has also served as Chair for the AALS Sections on Education Law (three times) and Immigration Law (twice).
Professor Olivas has written numerous law review articles with an emphasis on immigration, college law, financial aid, and minorities in higher education. He is the author of The Law and Higher Education: Cases and Materials on Colleges in Court (2 nd ed. 1997, Carolina Academic Press) and eight other books. He was a trustee of the College Board and was on the founding board of The Access Group. He has served as a Council Member for the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the National Academy of Education.
STEPHANIE M. WILDMAN
Stephanie M. Wildman is a Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara University. She received her A.B. in 1970 and her J.D. in 1973 from Stanford University. In 1973, she became a Law Clerk for Honorable Charles Merrill, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. She served as an Adjunct Professor for McGeorge School of Law in 1974. She became an Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco in 1974, where she returned in 1978 as an Assistant Professor and has been a Professor Emeritus since 1999. She has worked in private practice and as a Staff Attorney for California Rural Legal Assistance. She has visited at Hastings College of Law, Stanford Law School, and University of California-Davis School of Law. She became the Founding Director of the Center for Social Justice at University of California at Berkeley in 1999.
Professor Wildman has served on the AALS Committee on Curriculum and Research. She has also chaired the AALS Sections on Teaching Methods and Law and the Community.
Professor Wildman has written numerous law review articles and books with an emphasis on sex and race discrimination and systemic privilege. She is the author of Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law (with Martha Mahoney & John Calmore) and Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (with Juan Perea, Richard Delgado, & Angela Harris). She has also served as an elected member of the American Law Institute.
cc: Executive Committee
Committee on Nominations
Deans of non-member fee-paid schools