Association of American Law School
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is a non-profit
association of 164 law schools. The purpose of the association is
"the improvement of the legal profession through legal education."
It serves as the learned society for law teachers and is legal education's
principal representative to the federal government and to other
national higher education organizations and learned societies.
The AALS holds an Annual Meeting every year in January and five
or six workshops and conferences throughout the year. Every summer,
the AALS holds a workshop for new law teachers, and in odd-numbered
years, there is a supplemental workshop for new legal writing faculty.
Materials from the AALS 2005 Workshop for Beginning Legal Writing
Teachers can be found here.
In addition, the AALS publishes a Directory of Law Teachers and
a quarterly newsletter, as well as other publications. Much of the
learned society activities are done by the 78 AALS Sections, which
plan programs at the Annual Meetings and publish newsletters throughout
the year. For further information, visit the website at www.aals.org.
AALS Section on Legal Writing:
The Legal Writing Section is devoted to promoting teaching and scholarship
in the field of Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research. It holds
at least one Section Program at the AALS Annual Meeting in January
each year, hosts a luncheon at the Annual Meeting, and publishes
the Section Newsletter electronically in the spring and fall. The
Section also helps the AALS in organizing the biennial conference
for New Legal Writing teachers. The section website can be found
here. The
section newsletters can be found below:
Fall 2005 Newsletter.
Spring 2005 Newsletter.
Spring
2004 Newsletter.
Fall 2003 Newsletter.
Spring 2003 Newsletter.
Fall 2002 Newsletter.
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