Our Section is now seeking nominations for the below inaugural prestigious awards. Only individuals who are eligible for Section membership may make a nomination, and only a law professor or lawyer—not institutions, organizations, or law schools—are eligible for the awards.  More than one person may nominate the same candidate; however, the number of nominations for any one nominee is not determinative of a winner.  The AALS Aging and The Law Section Officers and Awards Subcommittee will select the award recipients, and the awards will be presented in person at the 2023 AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California during our Section Meeting tentatively slated for Wednesday, January 4^th 1:00pm-2:40pm MT. 

Awards:

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.

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.

The nomination deadline is September 30, 2022, 11:59 p.m.  Email a nomination letter (no longer than 5 pages) to Katie Liss at [email protected]. Nomination letters may be accompanied by no more than three letters of support. Please use a descriptive subject line such as “Nomination of xxx for the xxx Award.” Optimally, the nomination and letters of support will be submitted together as one PDF.

The AALS Section on Balance & Well-being in Legal Education invites nominations for its annual award to be presented at the 2023 AALS Annual Meeting & Conference. We have extended the nomination deadline to September 2.

Award Description:

This award is designed to honor an individual for outstanding contributions to the promotion of well-being in legal education. The awardee serves as a model of Balance & Well-being Section ideals, develops innovative programming that integrates this work into curricular or co-curricular offerings, contributes to academic scholarship in the field, and regularly serves the Section, their law school and greater legal community by providing access to well-being programming and/or services.

Criteria:

1. Modeling: Serves as a model of Balance & Well-being Section ideals (integrates this work into teaching, scholarship or service);
2. Innovation: Develops or proposes innovative curricular offerings designed to showcase the importance of health, compassion, integrity, and ethics to the effective study and practice of law;
3. Scholarship: Recent publications (scholarship related to the work of the section);
4. Section Contributions: Contributions to the Section through service/volunteer work; and
5. Service: Service to the law school and the greater legal community – providing access to well-being programming and/or services across multiple communities and platforms.

Nominations should address the following questions:

1. In what ways has this nominee made outstanding contributions to the promotion of well-being in legal education?
2. How has the nominee served as a model for balance and well-being in legal education?
3. How has the nominee inspired others to act or created opportunities for others to serve?
4. How has the nominee advanced or spread discourse on the importance of well-being in legal education?
5. How has the nominee enhanced or changed the way legal education is taught based upon humanistic or holistic models of legal practice?
6. How has the nominee impacted the professional identity formation and/or development of law students and legal educators through this work?

Submit nominations via webform here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_ySFf6FPX8WFykEE4-p77PDY7IrqKCItiiICgkoF3i4/edit

Deadline for nominations: Sept. 2, 2022

The Section on Jurisprudence asks for nominations for the section’s annual awards.  The deadline for submitting nominations is September 30, 2022.

• Hart-Dworkin Award in Legal Philosophy:  Given annually to a scholar who has made significant and lasting contributions to the philosophical understanding of law (2022 winner: Frederick Schauer)

• Jurisprudence Section Article Award:  Given annually to a tenured or tenure-track scholar in recognition of an exceptional philosophical work of legal scholarship (must have a publication date of 2021 or 2022).

• Future Promise Award:  Given annually to a pre-tenure-track or early tenure-track scholar whose work reflects future promise in both philosophy and law

More information about past winners can be found here.

The AALS Section on Balance & Well-being in Legal Education invites nominations for its annual award to be presented at the 2023 AALS Annual Meeting & Conference. We have extended the nomination deadline to September 2.

Award Description:

This award is designed to honor an individual for outstanding contributions to the promotion of well-being in legal education. The awardee serves as a model of Balance & Well-being Section ideals, develops innovative programming that integrates this work into curricular or co-curricular offerings, contributes to academic scholarship in the field, and regularly serves the Section, their law school and greater legal community by providing access to well-being programming and/or services.

Criteria:

1. Modeling: Serves as a model of Balance & Well-being Section ideals (integrates this work into teaching, scholarship or service);
2. Innovation: Develops or proposes innovative curricular offerings designed to showcase the importance of health, compassion, integrity, and ethics to the effective study and practice of law;
3. Scholarship: Recent publications (scholarship related to the work of the section);
4. Section Contributions: Contributions to the Section through service/volunteer work; and
5. Service: Service to the law school and the greater legal community – providing access to well-being programming and/or services across multiple communities and platforms.

Nominations should address the following questions:

1. In what ways has this nominee made outstanding contributions to the promotion of well-being in legal education?
2. How has the nominee served as a model for balance and well-being in legal education?
3. How has the nominee inspired others to act or created opportunities for others to serve?
4. How has the nominee advanced or spread discourse on the importance of well-being in legal education?
5. How has the nominee enhanced or changed the way legal education is taught based upon humanistic or holistic models of legal practice?
6. How has the nominee impacted the professional identity formation and/or development of law students and legal educators through this work?

Submit nominations via webform here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_ySFf6FPX8WFykEE4-p77PDY7IrqKCItiiICgkoF3i4/edit

Deadline for nominations: Sept. 2, 2022

The AALS Section on Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School has developed five awards to recognize individuals, programs, and organizations that further our Section’s mission of bettering legal education and increasing diversity in the legal profession. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to recognize the efforts of our community.

Nominations must be submitted through this form https://forms.gle/Qpjtd1eX2w3eqaAQ8 until August 31, 2022. The form will require nominators to submit a short statement indicating why the candidate should receive the award for which they are nominated. Nominators may nominate the same candidate for multiple awards and/or multiple candidates for the same award, but separate submissions are required for each nomination. Typically, an individual will not win multiple awards in the same year. Award purpose, eligibility requirements, and selection criteria are noted below for each award.
1. Excellence in Pre-Law Advising Award

Purpose: The purpose of this award is to recognize a pre-law advisor who demonstrates excellence in all aspects of their position and who has made significant efforts to increase diversity within the legal progression.

Eligibility: Full-time or part-time pre-law advisors.

Criteria:

* Community – fosters a safe and inclusive culture

* Diversity – undertakes efforts to increase diversity within the legal profession
* Excellence – takes initiative to enhance quality of pre-law advising program
* Respect – shows regard for other’s traditions, abilities, qualities, perspectives, and contributions
* Inspiration – encourages growth among advisees

1. Up and Comer Award

Purpose: The purpose of this award is to recognize an individual who, through their professional efforts, has helped to increase access to legal education among individuals who are or have been historically underrepresented in law school and the legal profession.

Eligibility: Individuals who work in the field of pre-law advising, law school administration, or other professions related to pre-legal education and admission to law school and who have fewer than ten (10) years of experience in this field.

Criteria:

* Collaboration – works well with other individuals and/or institutional partners
* Diversity – undertakes efforts to increase diversity within the legal profession
* Growth – seeks out opportunities for professional and personal development
* Responsiveness – listens and learns from others
* Innovation – develops new models or frameworks; enhances current processes

1. Unsung Hero Award

Purpose: The purpose of this award is to recognize an individual who consistently goes above and beyond in performance of their job responsibilities and helps to increase diversity and inclusion within law school and the legal profession.

Eligibility: Individuals who work in the field of pre-law advising, law school administration, or other professions related to pre-legal education and admission to law school.

Criteria:

* Community – fosters a safe and inclusive culture
* Collaboration – works well with other individuals and/or institutional partners
* Growth – seeks out opportunities for professional and personal development
* Integrity – makes ethical decisions
* Responsiveness – listens and learns from others

1. Programmatic Change-Maker Award

Purpose: The purpose of this award is to recognize a program that has created structural and systemic change in an effort to increase access to legal education and diversify the legal profession.

Eligibility: A program that has operated for at least one year.

Criteria:

* Discovery – encourages creativity in problem-solving

* Diversity – undertakes efforts to increase diversity within the legal profession

* Innovation – develops new models or frameworks; enhances current processes
* Support – provides guidance to individuals who need assistance

1. Organizational Change-Maker Award

Purpose: The purpose of this award is to recognize an organization that has created structural and systemic change in an effort to increase access to legal education and diversify the legal profession.

Eligibility: Organizations-including but not limited to educational institutions, non-profit entities, for-profit companies, start-ups, and bar associations-that have been in operation for at least one year.

Criteria:

* Community – fosters a safe and inclusive culture
* Discovery – encourages creativity in problem-solving

* Diversity – undertakes efforts to increase diversity within the legal profession

* Innovation – develops new models or frameworks; enhances current processes

Don’t miss this opportunity to nominate a person or organization that you believe deserves special recognition!

The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Section executive committee, with the support of AALS, is proud to request nominations for the LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence Award.

As in past years, the Section will give two awards, one individual award and one institutional / program award.  These awards are intended to recognize innovative contributions to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons in the legal academy and the legal profession more broadly.  Please see the call for nominations below.  The deadline for nominations is August 31, 2022.

Call for LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence Award Nominations

Deadline: August 31, 2022

The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Section invites you to nominate outstanding individuals and outstanding programs / institutions for the LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence Awards.

These two awards recognize innovative contributions to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons in the legal academy and the legal profession more broadly.

The Section especially seeks nominations that focus on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ students, before, during, and after their legal education.

To submit an LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence Award nomination, please send nomination materials via email to Professor John Rice, [email protected] by Wednesday, August 31, 2022.

Nominations should include the following information:

• Nominator’s name, position, school, contact information (address, telephone number, and email address)
• The name of the nominated individual or program / institution;
• A description of how you know about the nominee’s contributions;
• A description of the highlights of the nominee’s qualifications for the award;
• The nominee’s resume (if an individual and easily available); and
• Any additional documentation or information that supports the nomination.

The selected recipient will be recognized at a Section sponsored program at the AALS 2023 Annual Meeting in January.

Please send your nominations, along with a letter or an email outlining the nominee’s key contributions/achievements, to Alex Zhang ([email protected]) by Friday, 9/23/2022. Self-nominations are welcomed as well.  We look forward to receiving your nominations!

Call for Nominations for the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education 2023 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award

The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education is pleased to open nominations for its 2023 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013, the inaugural award honored Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Subsequent winners include Catharine A. MacKinnon (2014), Herma Hill Kay (2015), Marina Angel (2016), Martha Albertson Fineman (2017), Tamar Frankel (2018), Phoebe Haddon (2019), Robin West (2020), Kimberlé Crenshaw (2021), and Camille De Jorna (2022). All of these remarkable women were recognized for their outstanding impact and contributions to the Section on Women in Legal Education, the legal academy, and the legal profession.

The purpose of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award is to honor an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, service, and scholarship for at least 20 years. The recipient should be someone who has impacted women, the legal community, the academy, and the issues that affect women through mentoring, writing, speaking, activism, and by providing opportunities to others.

The Section is now seeking nominations for this most prestigious award. Only individuals who are eligible for Section membership may make a nomination, and only individuals-not institutions, organizations, or law schools-are eligible for the award. More than one person may nominate the same candidate; however, the number of nominations for any one nominee is not determinative of the winner. As established by the Section’s Bylaws, the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education Executive Committee will select the award recipient, and the award will be presented at the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting.

SUBMISSION: Nominations should be submitted to Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Treasurer, AALS WILE, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the header “RBG Nomination-AALS 2023.”

DEADLINE: September 6, 2022.