Date Chartered:  5/31/1985

Purpose

The Section on Aging & the Law promotes the communication of ideas, interests, and activities among members of the section and makes recommendations on matters concerning issues facing the aging, law relating to aging, and development of legal education programs about aging and the law.

Awards

Emerging Scholar Award

This inaugural award honors the contributions, service, and leadership of a scholar in legal education and the legal profession with a non-tenured law school faculty member or law school faculty member with less than 10 years’ experience. The recipient is someone who has great potential to make a mark during their career as evidenced by work that brings a novel perspective or call for action in legal education or the legal profession for aging populations.

Lifetime Achievement Award

The purpose of this Section’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award is to honor an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, service, and scholarship in aging and the law for at least 20 years. The recipient should be someone who has impacted law students, the legal community, the academy, and/or the issues that affect the aging population through mentoring, writing, speaking, activism, and/or by providing opportunities to others.

Recipients

YearAward NameRecipientLaw School
2024Emerging Scholar AwardGenevieve MannGonzaga University School of Law
2024Lifetime Achievement AwardLawrence FrolikUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Law
2023Lifetime Achievement AwardRebecca MorganStetson University College of Law

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