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Academic Freedom and Academic Duty

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…

Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here

By Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Law Center Until you have actually put on a professional meeting, you have no idea how hard they are to coordinate. Over the years, I have put on perhaps fifteen or twenty academic conferences, where you assign a topic or theme, invite experts to a convenient venue, edit…

Ask Not For Whom The Law School Bell Tolls

By 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…

Are We Good Neighbors? Academic Duty and Service Obligations

By 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…

Association of American Law Schools Presidential Address 2012

By 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…

Global Engagement in Uncertain Times

By Lauren K. Robel It is an anxious time for U.S. legal education. We are in a period of intense scrutiny, both among ourselves and from our many constituencies. Our inquiry has many objects: educational costs; the nature of changes in the profession; whether a flux in the number of applicants signals the cycles of…

Looking Forward: Legal Education in the 21st Century

Leo P. Martinez1 Speech to the AALS House of Representatives, January 6, 2013 I am a fortunate person. My fortune can be best described by the number of people who have supported me throughout my career and have placed their confidence in me as I embark on my term as President of the Association. These…

Legal Education and Change

Endnotes 2013 President of the Association of American Law Schools and Albert Abramson Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. I am grateful to the many who provided both inspiration and substantive comments on this piece. These include my friends and colleagues David Faigman, Mary Kay Kane, Susan Westerberg…

Member Schools’ Admissions Pages

Law Schools: A-FLaw Schools: G-MLaw Schools: N-RLaw Schools: S-Z University of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law School The University of Alabama School of Law Albany Law School American University, Washington College of Law Arizona State University Sanda Day O’Connor College of Law University of Arizona College of Law University of Arkansas School of Law University... Read More

Professional Development

The AALS offered its first professional development program in 1969 when it held a clinic on the pedagogy of law teaching. The annual conference on Clinical Legal Education has become an annual mainstay of the Association’s activities. A special Workshop for New Law School Teachers is also held each June. In addition, there is a…

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