Date Chartered: 1/1/1973
Purpose
The Section on Women in Legal Education provides information to its members respecting the integration of women and women’s concerns into the legal profession and the law, promotes the communication of ideas, interests and activities among members of the Section, makes recommendations on matters concerning the administration of law schools and on the status of women in legal education and makes recommendations on matters of interest in the teaching and improvement of the law school curriculum.
Annual Meeting Programs
2025
- Main Program
- Pedagogy Program
- Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Co-Sponsored by Disability Law, Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Issues, and Women in Legal Education
- Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Co-Sponsored by Disability Law, Minority Groups, Law and Mental Disability, Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Issues and Women in Legal Education
2024
- Main Program
- Pedagogy (1)
- Pedagogy (2)
- Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies and Scholarship Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Disability Law, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and Women in Legal Education
- Family and Juvenile Law, Co-Sponsored by Minority Groups, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and Women in Legal Education
- Clinical Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Communications, Media and Information Law, Pro-Bono & Access to Justice, Technology, Law and Legal Education; and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and Women in Legal Education
- Poverty Law, Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education, Critical Theories, Pro-Bono & Access to Justice, Property Law, and Women in Legal Education
2023
- Main Program
- Second Program
- Works-in-Progress
- Pedagogy Program
- Award Ceremony
- Legal History (Co-Sponsored by Jewish Law, Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Professional Responsibility, and Women in Legal Education)
- Clinical Legal Education (Co-Sponsored by Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Professional Responsibility, and Women in Legal Education)
2022
- Main Program
- AALS Open Source Program
- Minority Groups (Co-Sponsored by Section on Women in Legal Education)
- Works in Progress
- Pedagogy
- Networking Session
- Award Ceremony
2021
- Main Program
- Award Presentation
- Pedagogy
- AALS Open Source Program (Co-Sponsored by Section on Women in Legal Education)
- Aging and the Law (Co-Sponsored by Women in Legal Education)
- Disability Law (Co-Sponsored by Women in Legal Education)
2020
2019
- Main Program 1
- Main Program 2
- Aging and the Law (Co-sponsored by Business Associations)
- Agricultural and Food Law (Co-sponsored by Business Associations)
- Luncheon
Awards
Section of the Year
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award
The purpose of this award is to honor an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, service, and scholarship for at least 20 years. The recipient should be someone who has impacted women, the legal community, the academy, and the issues that affect women through mentoring, writing, speaking, activism, and by providing opportunities to others.
Recipients
| Year | Award Name | Recipient | Law School |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Stacy L. Leeds | Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law |
| 2024 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Martha Minow | Harvard Law School |
| 2023 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Cynthia Nance | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Robert A. Leflar Law Center |
| 2022 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Camille deJorna | Law School Admission Council |
| 2021 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Kimberle Crenshaw | Columbia Law School |
| 2020 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Robin West | Georgetown University Law Center |
| 2019 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Phoebe Haddon | Rutgers University-Camden |
| 2018 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Tamar Frankel | Boston University School of Law |
| 2017 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Martha Albertson Fineman | Emory University Law School |
| 2016 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Marina Angel | Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law |
| 2015 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Herma Hill Kay | University of California, Berkeley School of Law |
| 2014 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award | Catharine MacKinnon | University of Michigan Law School |
| 2013 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg | The Supreme Court of the United States |
Newsletters
- December 2023 Newsletter
- Women in Legal Education December 2021 Newsletter
- Women in Legal Education December 2020 Newsletter
- Women in Legal Education December 2019 Newsletter
- Women in Legal Education January 2019 Newsletter
- Women in Legal Education 2017 Newsletter
- Women in Legal Education 2016 Newsletter