Faculty Presenting at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting
The following faculty members will be presenting at the 2025 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting in San Fransisco, CA from January 7-11, 2025. View presenters and presentation descriptions below.
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Dean Nicky Boothe, AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color – Session One: On Being an “Other” in the Classroom, Law School, and University
Date: January 10, 2025
Time: 1:10 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.
Location: Level Two South, Room 215
Being classified as “other” in the classroom, law school or university can lead to feelings of isolation. Alienation along vectors of social identity may manifest itself not only within the classroom, but also in interactions with colleagues and unacknowledged additional service obligations faculty of color often experience. In this interactive session, panelists discuss managing one’s position as an “insider-outsider” and propose strategies for thriving as a professor and protecting one’s mental health despite the existence of pervasive structural inequalities.
Associate Dean Amy Campbell, Biolaw, Co-Sponsored by Law and Mental Disability, Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, and Law, Medicine and Health Care
Date: January 8, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Location: Upper Mezzanine Level South, Room 152
Using the lenses of disability rights, public health, harm reduction, and bioethics, this session explores ways to reimagine laws and policies affecting individuals with mental health conditions and substance use disorders. Speakers will address ways to shift from a punitive approach toward one that emphasizes treatment, support services, and addressing root causes rather than criminalizing mental health and substance use disorders.
Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution Program Director Kelly Navarro, Unlocking Opportunities through Doctrinal and Skills Teaching Collaboration.
Date: January 8, 2025
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Hotel Nikko; Bay View Room
Table discussion: How advocacy courses can prep students for success on the NextGen Bar exam.
Professor Eve Rips, Education Law, Co-Sponsored by Teaching Methods
Date: January 11, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Location: Upper Mezzanine Level South, Room 159
Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court have indicated its willingness to engage with and significantly change longstanding education law doctrine in politically charged areas like exercise of religion in public schools and use of affirmative action in admissions. This session identifies the unique challenges of introducing law students to an area of law and the legal profession in a time of such significant change and offers approaches for overcoming the challenges. Panelists will discuss their experiences with teaching dynamic legal topics and present concrete law teaching tips, frameworks, and lessons for helping students develop fundamental skills and understanding of key, contemporary doctrine while reflecting on the processes and potential for change. Audience members will participate in small groups to discuss their own experiences and applicability of specific, panel-inspired suggestions in their own classes. While focused on Education Law, the session will be relevant to teachers of Constitutional Law, State and Local Government, Civil Rights, and other fields that overlap with education.
Professor Jenna Prochaska, New Voices in Poverty Law, Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education and Pro Bono & Access to Justice
Date: January 8, 2025
Time: 2:40 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Location: Level Two South, Room 203
Junior scholars writing in the area of poverty law, broadly defined, will present their works-in-progress and have the opportunity to receive feedback from discussants and the community.
Professor Karen Halverson-Cross, Education Law, Co-Sponsored Children and the Law and Family and Juvenile Law
Date: January 10, 2025
Time: 9:50 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Location: Upper Mezzanine Level South, Room 157
Today’s K-12 students face unprecedented challenges affecting their social and emotional health—including the ongoing effects of the pandemic, pervasive discipline disparities, book bans, measures limiting gender expression, and the heightened scrutiny of social media. At the same time, schools suffer from a shortage of critical mental health service providers, particularly in rural areas and historically under-resourced districts. Service professionals also lack training in providing non-carceral, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed support. This panel will evaluate how law and policy can be better leveraged to address the student mental health crisis and provide students, educators, and school leaders with needed supports.
Professor Teri McMurtry-Chubb, AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color -Session Three: Teaching
Date: January 10, 2025
Time: 3:20 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Location: Level Two South, Room 215
COVID-19 greatly impacted how we teach students. This session will address a range of issues from lessons learned from the rise of expanded virtual teaching to traditional matters such as course planning and effectively engaging with students. The speakers will also address challenging aspects of teaching, such as handling difficult questions in class, teaching to the whole class, and addressing racial and social justice implications of legal doctrines.