Date Chartered: 1/1/1973
Purpose
The Section on Comparative Law provides a forum for discussion of problems in the comparison of laws which are of concern to the comparatists as a profession, and brings to the attention of members of the Association of American Law Schools the experience of other countries with matters of current concern to American professors of law.
Annual Meeting Programs
2024
- Main Program
- Award Ceremony
- European Law ( Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law and Taxation)
- Law and South Asian Studies (Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law and International Human Rights)
- East Asian Law & Society (Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law)
- Section Pedagogy Program
2023
- Main Program
- Works-in-Progress
- Business Meeting
- Award Ceremony
- East Asian Law & Society (Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law)
- International Law (Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law, Global Engagement, and International Human Rights)
- International Law (Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law, Global Engagement, and International Human Rights)
- International Law (Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law, Global Engagement, International Human Rights, and Litigation)
- East Asian Law & Society (Co-Sponsored by Comparative Law)
2022
- Main Program
- Section on Law in the Americas (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- Section on Legal History (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- Section on East Asian Law and Society (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- Section on East Asian Law and Social Pedagogy (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- Section on Real Estate Transactions (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- Works in Progress
- Networking Session
2021
- Main Program
- Art Law (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law, Intellectual Property, and Poverty Law)
- Civil Rights and Poverty Law Joint Program (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- East Asian Law and Society (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- International Human Rights (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law and Law and Religion)
- Scholarship (Co-sponsored by Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, and Law and Anthropology)
2020
- Main Program
- Art Law (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- Civil Rights (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- East Asian Law & Society (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- International Law (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- International Legal Exchange (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
- Law and South Asian Studies (Co-sponsored by Comparative Law)
2019
Awards
Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law
About Mark Tushnet: Mark Tushnet, a former president of the Association of American Law Schools, is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Tushnet is an authoritative voice in constitutional law and theory. His scholarship spans all areas of public law, including comparative constitutional law, a field in which he has co-authored a leading casebook. A respected teacher, a devoted mentor, and an influential scholar, he retired from the Harvard faculty in June 2020.
Award Description:
The AALS Section on Comparative Law awards the “Mark Tushnet Prize” to recognize scholarly excellence in any subject of comparative law by an untenured scholar at an AALS Member School. The Prize will be given to the author(s) of a scholarly article judged to have made an important contribution in the field of comparative law. The Prize was awarded for the first time at the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting.
Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Law School |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Rose Rameau | Georgia State University College of Law |
| 2023 | Anna Conley | Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana |
| 2022 | Mark Jia | Harvard Law School |
| 2021 | Pamela Bookman | Fordham University School of Law |
| 2020 | Jorge Farinacci | Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law |
Honorable Mentions
| Year | Honorable Mentions | Law School |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Paul Figueroa | The University of New Mexico School of Law |
| 2021 | Jonathan L. Marshfield | Nebraska Law School |
| 2021 | Yuvraj Joshi | Yale Law School |