October 4, 2006

MEMORANDUM 06-24

TO: Deans of Member Schools and Members of the AALS House of Representatives

FROM: Mary Kay Kane Chair, Committee on Nominations

SUBJECT: Nominations for President-Elect and for New Members of the Executive Committee

The Committee on Nominations for 2007 Officers and Members of the Executive Committee met in Washington on September 18, 2006. The members of the committee are: Elena Kagan, Harvard Law School, Mary Kay Kane, University of California , Hastings, Chair, Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School Patricia A. O'Hara, Notre Dame Law School Kurt L. Schmoke, Howard University Emily A. Spieler, Northeastern University and Gerald Torres, The University of Texas.

At the meeting of the House of Representatives on Friday, January 5, 2007, the committee will place the following names in nomination:

For the Position of President-Elect:
John H. Garvey, Boston College

For the Position of Members of the Executive Committee – Three-Year Term:
W.H. Knight, Jr., University of Washington
Lauren K. Robel, Indiana University

Continuing Members of the Executive Committee: Those members of the Executive Committee who will be continuing on the committee in 2007 are:

Judith C. Areen, Georgetown University Law Center
Nancy H. Rogers, The Ohio State University

Term expiring 2007
Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Law Center
Stephanie M. Wildman, Santa Clara University School of Law

Term expiring 2008
H. Reese Hansen, Brigham Young University
Robert C. Post, Yale Law School

Retiring Members of the Executive Committee. At the conclusion of the Association's House of Representatives meeting on Friday, January 5, 2007, at the Annual Meeting, three members of the Executive Committee will have completed their terms. N. William Hines will have completed his term as Immediate Past President. John H. Garvey and Beverly I. Moran 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.

JOHN H. GARVEY
John Garvey received his A.B. from the University of Notre Dame in 1970 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1974. He clerked for Judge Irving R. Kaufman, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit in 1974. In 1975, he was an Associate with Morrison & Foerster. He began teaching at the University of Kentucky in 1976, and served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice in 1981-84. He became Professor at Notre Dame Law School in 1994. He has been Dean of Boston College Law School since 1999.

He has served on the AALS Planning Committee for the Mini-Workshop on the Last Ten Years: What Your Students Know that You Should Know Too. He served on the AALS Special Committee on Faculty Recruitment Practices 2005-06. He served as Chair of three different Sections: Constitutional Law, Law and Religion, and the Section for the Law School Dean. Dean Garvey also served on the Executive Committee from 2004, to the present.

Dean Garvey has written numerous law review articles and books, including WHAT ARE FREEDOMS FOR?(1996). He is a co-author of RELIGION AND THE CONSTITUTION (2nd ed. 2006), which won the Alpha Sigma Nu award in 2004. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 1982.

W.H. (JOE) KNIGHT, JR.
Joe Knight received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina and his J.D. from Columbia University. He was an Associate with a Connecticut Bank and Holding Company, 1979-83. He began his career in legal education in 1983 when he joined the law faculty at the University of Iowa. Knight spent the next eighteen years at Iowa where he also served as Vice Provost of the University from 1997 through 2000. He has been Dean of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle since 2001.

Dean Knight has taught courses in, banking, contracts and commercial transactions and seminars on International Banking and Critical Race Theory. He has also authored three books on commercial law and several articles in the areas of banking, contracts, and race relations.

He served on the AALS Planning Committee for the 1984 Workshop for New Law Teachers. He served on the Membership Review Committee from 1998-2000 and the Nominating Committee for 2005 Officers and Members of the Executive Committee. Dean Knight also spoke at the 2005 Chinese and American Law School Deans Conference. Dean Knight has served as a member of other legal education associations, including the Audit and Finance and Legal Services committees of the Law School Admissions Council (where he also served as Trustee from 2001-02), and, the Association of American Law Deans where he was been a board member from 2002-2006.

LAUREN K. ROBEL
Lauren K. Robel received her B.A. from Auburn University in 1978 and her J.D. from Indiana University in 1983. From 1983-85 she clerked for Honorable Jesse Eschbach on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She began her career in legal education in1985 as Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has been Dean of Indiana University since 2003.

Dean Robel served on the AALS Committee on Curriculum and Research 2004-05 and she was appointed Chair of the Committee on Research in 2006. She also chaired the Planning Committee for the 2006 Conference on New Ideas for Law School Teachers: Teaching Intentionally.

Dean Robel has written a number of law review articles and books, including a Federal Courts casebook. She also serves as a member of the Rules Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

cc:    Executive Committee
        Committee on Nominations
         Deans of non-member fee-paid schools

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