UC Berkeley Law honors Herma Hill Kay’s AALS lifetime service award

March 7, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – Herma Hill Kay, former dean of Berkeley Law and professor for more than 50 years, has received the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) 2015 Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Law.

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Podcast: Event communications at the 2016 AALS Annual Meeting

February 16, 2016

FIR PODCAST NETWORK – James Greif, Director of Communications at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), discusses the AALS communication efforts during the 2016 AALS Annual Meeting.

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Former AALS President and Houston Law professor Michael Olivas tapped as Interim President of University of Houston

February 8, 2016

THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE – Michael Olivas, a UH law professor who also heads the school’s Institute of Higher Education Law and Governance, will temporarily take the top spot at the downtown campus, the university announced.

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Touro Law faculty members named to leadership roles in AALS

February 8, 2016

TOURO UNIVERSITY – Several Touro Law faculty members have been named to key leadership roles in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), a nonprofit whose mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.

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Lewis & Clark Law professor receives award from the AALS Section on Animal Law

January 25, 2016

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL – The Animal Law Section of the AALS awarded Pamela D. Frasch, Assistant Dean, Animal Law Program and Executive Director, Center for Animal Law Studies in collaboration with the Animal Legal Defense Fund at Lewis & Clark Law School, the inaugural AALS Animal Law Section Award for Excellence in Animal

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2015 AALS President Blake D. Morant leads panel discussion on the changing landscape of legal education during AALS annual meeting

January 19, 2016

BLOOMBERG BNA – At a panel titled “Preparing Professionals: Higher Education’s Responses to the Demands of a Global Marketplace,” panelists, most of whom had discussed the future of the law school model, the need — and best ways — to innovate, and whether schools should be business-oriented in the first place.

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Law school ranking system challenged at AALS Annual Meeting

January 19, 2016

BLOOMBERG BNA – “[A]t the American Association of Law Schools’ annual meeting in New York, the AALS’s Section for the Law School Dean hosted a panel on law school rankings.”

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Justice Breyer addresses law faculty during AALS Annual Meeting

January 19, 2016

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – Speaking to a crowd of law professors at a conference in Manhattan of the Association of American Law Schools, Justice Breyer said he believes the purpose and consequence of a decision are just as valid as considering the history, tradition and precedent underlying a case.

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William & Mary Law Professor Paul Marcus to serve as President-Elect of AALS

January 19, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF WILLIAM & MARY – William & Mary Law School Professor Paul Marcus was selected as president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) on Jan. 9 during the association’s annual meeting in New York.

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University of Washington Law Dean Kellye Testy to serve as 2016 AALS President

January 19, 2016

UW TODAY – Kellye Y. Testy, dean of the University of Washington’s law school, will give her inaugural address as president of the Association of American Law Schools tomorrow night in Washington, D.C.

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