Final Program

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Law schools are increasingly looking for ways to engage
students in real-world problem solving beyond traditional
clinical education and externship programs. This effort is driven
by the 2007 Carnegie Foundation report, societal criticism of
the value and cost of legal education, and by creative pedagogy
that is being increasingly applied in the environment, resources,
energy, and the emerging food and agriculture arenas because
of the need to address systems-scale problems. Here, students
benefit from student and faculty engagement in real-world
problem solving. For example, law programs around the
country are involving students in examining and creating legal
structures that can accommodate renewable energy, facilitate
the growth of sustainable food systems, address ecosystem
management challenges, and deal with complex climate
challenges. The format for this program will be interactive.
The representatives of the six selected programs will provide
short presentations on their programs. The moderator will then
open the discussion to the audience so that attendees have the
opportunity to engage in a robust, generative dialogue with the
panelists and with each other. The result, we hope, is a better
understanding of how to build and manage these programs,
more opportunities for students, and new capacity to solve
important problems.
Section on Agricultural and Food Law held a virtual business
meeting in advance of the Annual Meeting.
Section on Natural Resources and Energy Law business meeting
will be held at program conclusion.
9:15 am – 4 pm
AALS DEANS FORUM PROGRAM
Metropolitan West Large, Second Floor, Sheraton New York
Times Square Hotel
Innovation and Evolution: Strategies and Insights
for Deans in 2016
This program is open only to the Law School Dean or the
Interim Dean from AALS Member or fee-paid U.S. Law
Schools. Attendance is not transferable to other law school
faculty or staff.
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
AALS CROSSCUTTING PROGRAM
Sutton Center, Second Floor, New York Hilton Midtown
This roundtable discussion explores the potential for
interdisciplinary design to improve legal institutions and
education. In recent years, the push toward interdisciplinary
scholarship and teaching has grown stronger in the legal
academy, but there has been little quality control over what
constitutes “interdisciplinary.” Determining exactly what makes
a project interdisciplinary is not self-evident, and sometimes,
rather than by careful design and methodology, haphazard
projects are self-deemed “interdisciplinary” merely because
ideas, methods, or models are imported from other fields of
study. Sometimes, however, this is done with little mastery in
field, or worse, the inability to use knowledge effectively due to
a lack of training in that very field.
Against this existential backdrop, this roundtable discussion
explores how interdisciplinary approaches can be applied to
improve the law as well as legal scholarship and education. It
builds from the premise that understanding law is inextricable
from understanding individuals, institutions, and society, and
that all are critical to the project of legal reform. The discussion
will focus on gender studies, psychology, ritual theory, and
modes of studying law through multiple subject areas.
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
AALS HOT TOPIC PROGRAM
Gramercy West, Second Floor, New York Hilton Midtown
Grappling With Campus Rape
Moderator: Donna K. Coker, University of Miami
School of Law
Speakers:
Michelle J. Anderson, City University of New York
School of Law
Cynthia Garrett, Attorney and Member of FACE Board of
Directors, Families Advocating for Campus Equality
(FACE), Spartanburg, SC
Aya Gruber, University of Colorado School of Law
Mary P. Koss, Regents’ Professor, University of Arizona
College of Health, Tuscon, AZ
Tamara Rice Lave, University of Miami School of Law
Sejal Singh, Student Engagement Organizer, Know Your
IX, New York, NY
Deborah Tuerkheimer, Northwestern University Pritzker
School of Law
Corey Rayburn Yung, University of Kansas School of Law
Friday, January 8
Reforming Law and Scholarship by
Disciplinary Design
Moderator and Speaker: SpearIt, Texas Southern
University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Speakers:
Jessie Allen, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Jeff A. Redding, Saint Louis University School of Law
L. Song Richardson, University of California, Irvine
School of Law
Carlton M. Waterhouse, Indiana University Robert H.
McKinney School of Law
High-profile cases like that of former Florida State quarterback
Jameis Winston have brought a much-needed spotlight to
campus rape. Some studies show that as many as one in four
women have been sexually assaulted while in college. The White
House is demanding that universities take action, and the
Department of Education has threatened to withhold federal
funding from those that do not adequately respond. Although
everyone agrees that something must be done, figuring out what
to do is difficult.
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