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.
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
Main Program 1
Main Program 2
Main Program 3
Luncheon
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
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 |
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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 |