The Association of American Law Schools’ mission is to improve and advance legal education. AALS carries out its mission by promoting the core values of excellence in teaching and scholarship, academic freedom, and diversity, including diversity of backgrounds and viewpoints, while seeking to foster justice, and to serve our many communities–local, national, and international. In support of its mission, AALS serves as both the institutional membership organization for law schools, and as the learned society for law faculty.
James Greif
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The Faculty Lounge
December 9, 2024
At the Meeting of the AALS House of Representatives on Saturday, January 6, 2024 AALS President Melanie Wilson, Dean and Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University School of Law, delivered her inaugural address and announced the AALS theme for the year and the 2025 Annual Meeting, “Courage in Action.”
At the 2024 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson discussed her career, and defending democracy with 2023 AALS President Mark Alexander on January 4, 2024.
Conference on Defending Democracy – Panel 2: Democracy and the State of Law School Education. Law schools play a critical role in the future of our country and our democracy. The legal profession has never had a higher profile and greater exposure than over the last few years. Lawyers have shaped and will continue to shape our democracy. What, then, is our responsibility as educators of future lawyers?
The AALS Conference on Rebuilding Democracy and the Rule of Law, co-hosted with the American Bar Association (ABA) and Law School Admission Council (LSAC) brings legal scholars together with current and former high-level government officials to discuss who is responsible for protecting the health of our democracy.
On January 4, 2023, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined AALS President Erwin Chemerinsky in conversation about her life, career, and thoughts about how law schools can make a difference.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a question and answer session moderated by 2019 AALS President Vicki Jackson, Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.
The How to Become a Law Teacher Webinar was designed for law school career development professionals, current students, and law graduates who have an interest in teaching law. This session provides an overview of resources that AALS offers to assist and support candidates throughout the hiring process and as early career law professors.
At the Meeting of the AALS House of Representatives AALS President Mark Alexander, Dean and Professor of Law at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, delivered his inaugural address and announced the AALS theme for the year and the 2024 Annual Meeting, “Defending Democracy.”
