Founding Members

Darby Dickerson
President AALS Fellows
President, Dean, and Professor of Law
Southwestern Law School

Paul Marcus
President Emeritus of AALS Fellows
Haynes Professor of Law, Emeritus
William & Mary Law School

Blake D. Morant
President Emeritus of AALS Fellows
Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School

Mark C. Alexander
Arthur Kania Dean and Professor of Law
Villanova University Charles Widger Law School

Peter C. Alexander
Professor of Law
Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School

Alicia Alvarez
Professor of Law
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law

Penelope Andrews
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law
Director, Racial Justice Project
New York Law School

Judith Areen
Executive Director
Association of American Law Schools
Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita
Georgetown University Law Center

D. Benjamin Barros
Dean and Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law

Mary Beth Beazley
Professor of Law
UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law

Richard Booth
Professor of Law
Martin G. McGuinn Chair in Business Law
Villanova University Charles Widger Law School

Gregory W. Bowman
Dean and Professor of Law
Roger Williams University School of Law

William Bratton
Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
de law Cruz/Mentschikoff Chair in Law & Economics and Senior Lecturer
University of Miami School of Law

Margaret Brinig
Professor Emerita of Law
University of Notre Dame

William Byrnes
Executive Professor of Law
Texas A&M University School of Law

Guido Calabresi
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and
Professorial Lecturer in Law
Yale Law School

Devon W. Carbado
The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished
Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Pat K. Chew
Judge J. Quint Salmon and Anne Salmon Chaired Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Danielle M. Conway
Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law
Penn State Dickinson Law

Anthony Crowell
Dean and President
Professor of Law
New York Law School

Joshua Dressler
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Professor of Law Emeritus
Moritz College of Law
The Ohio State University

Timothy Duff
Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Practice
Suffolk University Law School

Robert Fellmeth
Price Professor of Public Interest Law
Executive Director, Centers for Public Interest Law,
Consumer Protection Policy Center, and
Children’s Advocacy Institute
University of San Diego

Daniel M. Filler
Dean and Professor of Law
Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Drexel University

Kris Franklin
Wallace Stevens Professor of Law
Director, Academic Initiatives
Co-Director, Initiative for Excellence in Law Teaching
Co-Advisor, Dispute Resolution Team
New York Law School

Matthew Gewolb
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Institutional Strategy
General Counsel
Faculty Director of Externship Programs
New York Law School

Morton Gitelman
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
University of Arkansas School of Law

Risa L. Goluboff
Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law

L. Camille Hébert
Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law
Moritz College of Law
The Ohio State University

N. William Hines
Joseph F. Rosenfield Professor Emeritus and
Dean Emeritus
The University of Iowa College of Law

Renée Hutchins Laurent
Dean and Professor of Law
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Darren Lenard Hutchinson
Professor of Law and John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice
Emory University School of Law

Vicki C. Jackson
Lawrence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law
Harvard Law School

Billie Jo Kaufman
Law Librarian, Emerita
Washington College of Law
American University
Law Library Director & Professor of Law
Mercer University School of Law

Andrew R. Klein
Paul E. Beam Professor of Law
Wake Forest School of Law

Elena B. Langan
Dean and Professor of Law
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

William P. LaPiana
Dean of Faculty
Rita and Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Director, Estate Planning Studies, Graduate Tax Program
New York Law School

Cynthia Lee
Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School

Gillian Lester
Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law
Columbia University Law School

Leo Martinez
Dean Emeritus and Albert Abramson Professor of Law Emeritus
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco

Susan R. Martyn
Distinguished University Professor and
John W. Stoepler Professor of Law and Values Emeritus
University of Toledo College of Law

Thomas Wm. Mayo
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Altshuler
Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law

Carl C. Monk
Past Executive Director,
Association of American Law Schools
Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus
Washburn University School of Law

Margaret E. Montoya
Professor Emerita of Law and
Former Senior Advisor to Chancellor, Health Sciences Center
University of New Mexico

Rachel F. Moran
Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law Distinguished and
Chancellor’s Professor of Law Emerita, UC Irvine School of Law

Thomas D. Morgan
Oppenheim Professor Emeritus of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law
The George Washington University Law School

Cynthia E. Nance
Dean and Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law
University of Arkansas School of Law

Carol A. Needham
Emanuel Myers Professor
Center for International and Comparative Law
St. Louis University School of Law

Camille A. Nelson
Dean and Professor of Law
William S. Richardson School of Law
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Austen L. Parrish
Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law
University of California, Irvine School of Law

Elizabeth Hayes Patterson
Former Senior Counselor
Association of American Law Schools
Associate Professor of Law Emerita
Georgetown University

Dylan C. Penningroth
Alexander F. & May T. Morrison Professor of American History & Citizenship
Associate Dean, Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy / Legal Studies
UC Berkeley

Wendy Collins Perdue
Dean and Professor of Law
The University of Richmond School of Law

Susan Poser
President
Hofstra University

Susan Westerberg Prager
Professor of Law
Southwestern Law School
Former AALS Executive Director

L. Song Richardson
President
Colorado College

Lauren Robel
Val Nolan Professor of Law
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Daniel B. Rodriguez
Harold Washington Professor of Law
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Vincent D. Rougeau
President
College of the Holy Cross

Frances Rudko
Professor of Law
UMass School of Law

Patricia Salkin
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and
Provost, Graduate and Professional Divisions, and
Professor of Law, Touro University  

Shelley Ross Saxer
Laure Sudreau Endowed Professor of Law
Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law

Robert A. Schapiro
Dean and C. Hugh Friedman Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law

Elizabeth M. Schneider
Rose L. Hoffer Professor & Director, Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program
Brooklyn Law School

D. Gordon Smith
Dean and Dean and Ira A. Fulton Chair and
Professor of Law
J. Reuben Clark Law School
Brigham Young University

Aviam Soifer
Professor of Law
William S. Richardson School of Law
University of Hawaii

Theodore J. St. Antoine
James E. & Sarah A. Degan Professor Emeritus of Law and Dean Emeritus
The University of Michigan Law School

Richard T. Stith, III
Senior Research Professor
Valparaiso University Law School

Kellye Y. Testy
President, LSAC (until 6/30)
Executive Director & CEO,
Association of American Law Schools (starting 7/1)

Gerald Torres
Professor of Environmental Justice
Yale School of the Environment
Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Mark Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus
Harvard Law School

Kevin Washburn
N. William Hines Dean and Professor of Law
University of Iowa School of Law

John White
Ralph Denton Professor of Law
William S. Boyd School of Law
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Patricia D. White
Professor of Law and Dean Emerita
University of Miami School of Law

Dale A. Whitman
James E. Campbell Missouri Endowed Professor Emeritus of Law
University of Missouri School of Law

Stephanie M. Wildman
Professor of Law, Emerita
Santa Clara School of Law

Melanie D. Wilson
Dean and Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law
Washington and Lee University School of Law