Call for Papers
AALS Section on Professional Responsibility
The Ethics of Legal Education
2018 AALS Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
January 3-6, 2018
The Section on Professional Responsibility is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Section’s 2018 Program: The Ethics of Legal Education. In addition to featuring invited speakers (Professor Joan Howarth, Dean Andrew Perlman, and Dean Daniel Rodriguez), we will select up to two speakers from this call.
This panel will explore the ethical challenges U.S. law schools have faced during the past decade and will consider the path ahead. Speakers will address various subjects that may include: alternative and accelerated degree programs, for-profit law schools, accreditation decisions, admissions and scholarship practices, employment issues, and litigation filed by students and alumni against law schools. The panel will explore the factors that have influenced ethical and values-based decision-making, leadership challenges, and how law school leaders' ethics and values in this area may influence the future of the legal education and the legal profession.
Participants need not write a paper, but will have the option to publish a paper if they choose to do so.
Any member of the full-time faculty of an AALS member school may submit a 500-1500 word proposal by August 15, 2017 to Renee Knake at [email protected]. The title of the email submission should read: Submission – 2018 AALS Section on Professional Responsibility.
The Planning Committee for the Annual Meeting of the Section on Professional Responsibility will review all submissions and select up to two papers by September 1, 2017. Please note that all faculty members presenting at the program are responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.
Any questions should be directed to 2018 Program Co-chairs Renee Knake at [email protected] or Paula Schaefer at [email protected].