Messages from the AALS Presidents, including remarks addressed to the AALS House of Representatives at the Annual Meeting, are collected in reverse chronological order.

Messages from Erwin Chemerinsky

• Basic Principles Concerning Law Schools and Freedom of Speech
• How Law Schools Can Make a Difference

Messages from Vincent Rougeau

• Rebuilding Democracy Amid the Continuing Pandemic
• 2021 Annual Meeting Presidential Address – Freedom, Equality, and the Common Good

Messages from Darby Dickerson

• Abolish the Academic Caste System
• Change
• Promoting Candor
• 2020 Annual Meeting Presidential Address – The Power of Words

Messages from Vicki Jackson

• 2019 Annual Meeting Presidential Address – Pillars of Democracy: Law, Representation, and Knowledge
• Legal Scholarship and Knowledge Institutions in Constitutional Democracy
• Law Schools and Civic Education

Messages from Wendy Collins Perdue

• 2018 Annual Meeting Presidential Address: Building Bridges
• Challenges, Opportunities, and Law School Finances
• Happy New Year

Messages from Paul Marcus

• President’s Report on 2017
• Borrowing from Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are a-Changin’”
• Access to Justice: Our Faculty Colleagues and Students Stepping Up in a Big Way
• 2017 Annual Meeting Presidential Address

Messages from Kellye Y. Testy

• President’s Report on 2016
• Step Up, Legal Academy
• 2016 Annual Meeting Presidential Address

Messages from Blake D. Morant

• President’s Report on 2015
• 2015 Annual Meeting Presidential Address

Messages from Daniel B. Rodriguez

• Presidential Report on 2014
• 2014 Annual Meeting Presidential Address

Messages from Leo P. Martinez

• Legal Education and Change
• Looking Forward: Legal Education in the 21st Century

Messages from Lauren K. Robel

• Global Engagement in Uncertain Times
• 2012 Annual Meeting Presidential Address

Messages from Michael A. Olivas

• Are We Good Neighbors? Academic Duty and Service Obligations
• Ask Not For Whom The Law School Bell Tolls
• Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here
• Academic Freedom and Academic Duty

Messages from H. Reese Hansen

• Letter to ABA Standards Review
• Principles to Guide Us