Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Law Center The following is the Presidential Address of Michael A. Olivas before the House of Representatives at the AALS Annual Meeting on January 7, 2011. In preparation for this talk, I went into training, but I always knew what my theme would be. I read and produce higher…
Read More about Academic Freedom and Academic DutyBy Michael A. Olivas It is a fact universally acknowledged that law faculty are in want of purpose. It takes a lot to get us riled, and even more to call us to the barricades. But the current state of financing legal education is just such a burning theater, and we all should be troubled…
Read More about Ask Not For Whom The Law School Bell TollsBy Michael A. Olivas My wife and I recently changed our life together radically, by moving from our suburban Houston four bedroom home to a two bedroom loft apartment near the UH Law Center. Earlier this week, I set a new land-speed, non-Olympic-Year record of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, walking from the 8th floor…
Read More about Are We Good Neighbors? Academic Duty and Service ObligationsBy Lauren K. Robel Last week, the National Law Journal published its Top 10 Law School Stories of 2011. Mercifully, one of them involved a dog. The NLJ reported that a compassionate Yale law librarian brought Monty the dog to the stacks to soothe students’ exam-jangled nerves. The remaining nine stories constituted the past year’s…
Read More about Association of American Law Schools Presidential Address 2012Dear Colleagues and Friends of Legal Education: As the Constitution of the United States is the cornerstone of democracy, America’s law schools are the place where future lawyers acquire the knowledge and skills they need to uphold the founders’ vision and to protect the rights it guarantees to the people. Our legal education system is…
Read More about Message from Executive DirectorThe Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association of 176 member and 18 fee-paid law schools. Its member schools enroll most of the nation’s law students and produce the majority of the country’s lawyers and judges, as well as many of its lawmakers. Founded in 1900, the mission of AALS is…
Read More about About AALSExploring How Changes to the First-Year Law School Curriculum Could Benefit Students Law School Curriculum: Reform, Assessment, and Research Design David A. Hyman(Georgetown Law), Jing Liu (East China University Law), and Joshua C. Teitelbaum (Georgetown Law) discuss how changes to the first-year law school curriculum could positively impact law students. The authors evaluate Georgetown Law’s…
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