Date Chartered: 11/9/2017
The purpose of this Section to promote scholarship, teaching, and related activities that will help prepare lawyers and law students to serve in leadership roles. The Section also will make recommendations to the Association on matters of interest with respect to the research and teaching concerning leadership development in the legal profession.
Annual Meeting Programs
2025
- Main Program
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Co-Sponsored For the Law School Dean, Leadership, and Student Services
2024
2023
- Main Program
- Pro Bono & Access to Justice (Co-Sponsored by Creditors’ and Debtors’ Rights, Clinical Legal Education, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals, and Leadership)
2022
- Main Program
- Clinical Legal Education (Co-Sponsored by Leadership)
- AALS Open Source Program (Co-Sponsored by Leadership)
- Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research Panel 1 (Co-Sponsored by Leadership)
- Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession (Co-Sponsored by Leadership)
- Professional Responsibility (Co-Sponsored by Leadership)
- For the Law School Dean (Co-Sponsored by Leadership)
- Pedagogy
2021
- Main Program
- Professional Responsibility (Co-Sponsored by Leadership)
- Balance in Legal Education, Clinical Legal Education, and Leadership Joint Pedagogy
- Pro-Bono & Public Service Opportunities (Co-sponsored by Leadership)
2020
- Main Program
- Breakfast
- Empirical Study of Legal Education (Co-sponsored by Leadership)
- Pro-Bono & Public Service Opportunities (Co-sponsored by Leadership)
- Women in Legal Education (Co-sponsored by Leadership)
2019
- Main Program
- Breakfast and Business Meeting
- Pro-Bono & Public Service Opportunities (Co-sponsored by Leadership)
- Professional Responsibility (Co-sponsored by Leadership)
Newsletters
Photo Album
Shared Course Syllabi
Baylor Law School – Leadership Engagement and Development
Cleveland State University College of Law:
Columbia Law School – Lawyer Leadership: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Change
Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law – Law and Leadership
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law – Loyola- Dean Luma – Lawyers as Leaders Spring 2024
University of North Carolina School of Law:
University of Tennessee College of Law:
Webinars & Webinar Recordings
Upcoming
No upcoming webinars at this time.
Past
Section on Leadership – Advancing Lawyer Leadership: Why Scholarship Matters
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 1:00 – 2:00pm EST/12:00 – 1:00pm CT/11:00am – 12:00pm MT/10:00 – 11:00am PT
Watch the Recording Here
Law Students Learning to Lead through Non-Profit Board Service
Thursday, March 6th, 1:00 – 2:00pm EST/12:00 – 1:00pm CT/11:00am – 12:00pm MT/10:00 – 11:00am PT
Watch the Recording Here
The Intersection of Leadership, Professionalism, and Professional Identity
Tuesday, September 10th, 12:00 – 1:00pm EST/11:00 – 12:00pm CT/10:00 – 11:00am MT/9:00 – 10:00am PT
Watch the Recording Here
Leadership for Equity Amid Political Turbulence
Tuesday, October 8th, 12:00 – 1:00pm EST/11:00 – 12:00pm CT/10:00 – 11:00am MT/9:00 – 10:00am PT
Watch the Recording Here
Women and Leadership
Wednesday, November 13th, 5:00 – 6:00pm EST/4:00 – 5:00pm CT/3:00 – 4:00pm MT/2:00 – 3:00pm PT
Watch the Recording Here
Adaptive Leadership Conversation
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Kellye Testy, President and CEO, LSAC and Hillary Sale, Associate Dean for Strategy, Georgetown University Hillary Sale, will have an engaging conversation with Farayi Chipungu, who teaches adaptive leadership at both the Harvard Kennedy School and at Harvard Law School. She will talk with us about teaching adaptive leadership and how her experiences teaching graduate students at the Kennedy School are different from teaching JDs at the law school — and her adaptive approach to doing so.
Teaching Leadership Using the Case Study Method
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Lee Fisher, Dean Cleveland State University, Doris DelTosto Brogan, Professor and Harold Reuschlein Chair, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, and Mr. P. Kelly Tompkins, Leader-in-Residence, Cleveland State University College of Law discussed teaching leadership to law students using the case study method. The case study method is used often in business schools, but rarely in law schools. The case study approach grew out of the Langdellian case method, but instead of using established case law, case studies use real-life or hypothetical situations from the legal, business, political and government worlds to illustrate and then analyze leadership principles.
AALS Leadership Session
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Joan Heminway, Interim Director, Institute for Professional Leadership, Rick Rose Distinguished Professor of Law, The University of Tennessee College of Law, and Martin Brinkley, Dean and Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law, will host a program that will focus on adjunct/full-time faculty collaborations on leadership curriculum and course design. Our two featured speakers are William (Bill) Johnson and Candice Reed, both adjunct instructors teaching leadership courses at our respective institutions. Each will be asked to offer about ten minutes of introduction of themselves, the course they teach, how they designed it and originally taught it, and how they may have redesigned and taught the course after teaching it one or two times.
This event was not recorded.
Leadership Teaching Session
Monday, June 26, 2023
Leah Teague, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Baylor Law and Stephen Rispoli, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, Baylor Law
Leadership Teaching Session
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
April Barton, Dean and Professor of Law, Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, Arik Short, Professor of Law & Director of Professionalism and Leadership Program, Texas A&M University School of Law, and Tania Luma, Assistant Dean, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Clinical Professor, Loyola Chicago Law School
Wednesday, July 15, 2020