4:00–7:30 p.m.
Registration

6:00–7:00 p.m.
AALS Reception

7:00 p.m.
AALS Sponsored Dinner

Welcome
Veryl Victoria Miles, AALS Deputy Director

Introduction
Alison Gray Anderson, University of California at Los Angeles and Chair, Planning Committee for AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers and Optional One-Day Workshop on Teaching Legal Writing

Teaching As Your Career

Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California

8:00–8:50 a.m.
AALS Section on Minority Groups Continental Breakfast

8:30–8:50 a.m.
Coffee, Tea and Breakfast Pastry

9:00–10:15 a.m.
Learning Theory

Paula Lustbader, Seattle University
Laurie B. Zimet, University of California, Hastings

10:15–10:30 a.m.
Refreshment Break

10:30–11:30 a.m.
Teaching Nuts & Bolts

Gerald F. Hess, Gonzaga University
Andrew D. Leipold, University of Illinois

11:30 a.m. –12:00 noon
Question & Answer Session

12:00 noon–1:30 p.m.
AALS Luncheon

The Law School Culture

Alice Gresham, Howard University

1:30–2:45 p.m.
Teaching Techniques:

First Year Case Based Socratic
Douglas J. Whaley, Ohio State University

Perspective
Dorothy Andrea Brown, Washington and Lee University

Upper Year and Technology
Susanna Frederick Fischer, The Catholic University of America

2:45–3:45 p.m.
Small Group Discussions

3:45–4:00 p.m.
Refreshment Break

4:00–5:15 p.m.
Assessment

Ann L. Iijima, William Mitchell College of Law

5:15–6:15 p.m.
AALS Reception

5:30–6:30 p.m.
AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Informal Gathering

6:15–7:15 p.m.
AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Informal Gathering

8:00 a.m. –8:50 a.m.
AALS Section on Women in Legal Education Continental Breakfast

8:30–8:50 a.m.
Coffee, Tea and Breakfast Pastry

9:00–9:45 a.m.
Scholarship I-Finding a Topic, Setting an Agenda

Marion G. Crain, University of North Carolina

9:45–10:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break

10:00–10:45 a.m.
Scholarship II-The Professor as a Scholar: Nuts and Bolts

Ronald F. Wright, Wake Forest University

10:45–11:30 a.m.
Question & Answer Session

11:30 a.m. –12:30 p.m.
Small Group Discussions

12:45–2:00 p.m.
AALS Luncheon

2:00–3:00 p.m.
Reports from New Law Teachers

Carole Necole Brown, The University of Alabama
Anthony Eudelio Varona, Pace University

3:00–3:30 p.m.
What We Have Learned

Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California
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Optional Workshop on Teaching Legal Writing
June 28–29, 2003
Washington, DC
  

5:30–7:00 p.m.
Registration

6:00–7:00 p.m.
AALS Reception

9:30–10:45 a.m.
Welcome
E. Joan Blum, Boston College, Program Chair and Member of Planning Committee for AALS Workshop on Teaching Legal Writing

Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Legal Writing

Debra L. Green, Florida Coastal School of Law
Susan H. Kosse, University of Louisville

10:45–11:15 a.m.
Refreshment Break

11:15 a.m. –12:00 noon
Conducting Effective Office Conferences

Steven J. Johansen, Lewis and Clark Law School
Robin S. Wellford, Chapman University

12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.
Small Group Discussions

1:00–2:15 p.m.
AALS Luncheon

2:15–5:00 p.m.
Workshop on Written Critique

Daniel L. Barnett, Boston College

5:00–5:30 p.m.

Workshop Conclusion

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