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1975 Newsl. 1 (1975)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews1975 and id is 1 raw text is: ;SOCIA TION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS/Suite 3, une uuponr uircle, wasnngron, uL. . NUMBER 75-1 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT By all reports the San Francisco meet- ing was a great success. Despite competing attractions (nameless here), attendance at A F@ _+ sV vjmd section meetings was quite goo. mny noticed as well a somewhat more relaxed air on Nob Hill. As pEgole±wn!ut their business sans the clamour of personnel recruitment, it was actually possible to talk together in hotel lobbies without looking for or being spot- ted by an employment prospect. Early re- turns suggest a large degree of satisfaction with the peeling off of the recruiting func- tion; when all the questionnaires are in, the Executive Committee will determine whether to continue the practice. If that seems desira- ble in principle, then the next effort will be to find some other date than Thanksgiving. And if that can be done, who knows -- maybe we can even find an annual meeting date be- sides the week after Christmas. Much of the credit for the successful program goes to the leadership of the sections. Without doubt, the creation of sections was a major step towards greater professionalization of the Association. Much can still be done by way of improving our program (for example, by requiring speakers to prepare papers in advance), but progress is clearly being made. I met with the Section Chairpersons on Sunday, December 30, and was impressed by their ideas for betterment and their determination to achieve it. I was also impressed by their opposition to the col- lection of dues, but I see no easy answer to the problem of financing section activities. The Association budget is balanced -- at least it was on January 30, the day I wrote this - but demands seem to increase as the supply of money shrinks. Some fund-raising efforts by the sections seem inescapable if section acti- vities are to flourish. Outside funds may be available to some sections, and Millard Ruud and I will do all we can to help obtain them, but dues do not seem to me to represent an unreasonable means of raising money. If you have any ideas or alternatives, by all means send them along. One way or another, we can make the sections work, and work, and work well, and to that end I, and I hope the col- lectivity, will devote great effort. Be of good cheer! Charles J. Meyers President IV F R3C EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ACTION The 1974 Executive Committee met on Decem- ber 27th and the 1975 on December 30, 1974 during the Association's Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The bulk of the Committee's time was taken up with the consideration of the applications for member- ship in the Association. In addition, the Execu- tive Committee determined that after two years of trying to formulate a program that it could staff and could operate within the gran funds availa- ble, that it did not seem feasible under the cir- cumstances to activate the Office of Law Related Research. Therefore, it determined reluctantly to inform the Ford Foundation and the Council on Law Related Studies that it would not be able to use the grant funds offered by the two founda- tions. The Executive Committee noted that the Idaho Bar Association has offered a resolution for consideration by the House of Delegates at the ABA Mid-Year Meeting in Chicago in February, 1975, that would delete from the ABA Standards for Approval of Law Schools the requirement that an approved school have a tenure policy. The Executive Committee determined to communi- cate to the president of the Idaho Bar Associ- ation and through Professor Meyers to the House of Delegates when it considers this matter, the Association's assessment of the critical impor- tance of tenure to the presentation of a program of quality legal education. FIVE SCHOOLS ADMITTED TO MEMBERSHIP The Association now has 132 members. The five following schools were admitted to member- ship in the Association on December 27, 1974, by action of the House of Representatives: C. Blake McDowell Law Center, University of Akron; McGeorge School of Law, University of the Paci- fic; New York Law School; School of Law, Univ- ersity of Puget Sound, and Southwestern Univer- sity School of Law. As of January 1, 1975 there were 156 schools that were approved by the Amer- ican Bar Association. The Association's mem- bership is composed of 69 schools that are part of private universities, 58 that are state sup- ported, and 5 that are independent or are unaf- filiated. Millard H. Ruud. Executive Director

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