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1976 Newsl. 1 (1976)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews1976 and id is 1 raw text is: nm FEBRUARY 27, 1976 NUMBER 76-1 Message From The President The months in which I have served as President-Elect of this Association proved highly instructive for me. It would not be humane to wish that all law teachers could share this experience, yet it produces insights hard to come by in other ways. Perhaps the fact that impressed me most is that interests of the greatest importance to legal ed- ucation are being heavily influenced by groups and agencies outside the law schools, and this to a degree that most law teachers, absorbed in teaching and research, are unaware. We all know, of course, that the schools are dependent on funding from legislatures, university administrators, and private giving, and that the ways in which scarce resources are allocated to legal education ncessarily limits our aspirations and capabilities. There are related questions. The pending educational appropriation bill in Congress makes no pro. vision for continuation of the CLEO program. The reasons or the reasons given for this decision appear to be based on considerable misinformation about the nature and purposes of CLEO. The Association is attempting to reverse or modify this decision. During the course of the year, we shall also be addressing the question, After CLEO, What? One of the disturbing developments of the past year has been the efforts in some jurisdictions to cdntrol or influence law school curricula by court rules. I believe that the efforts are mistaken. They imperil a long-established allocation of functions among the bar, the judiciary, and the schools-, upon which much of the achievement of the schools and the profession rests. These efforts represent more than a manifestation of jucidical machismo, however. They display a sincere concern about the competency of lawyers in the courtroom, to which we must attend. Accordingly, our response must include suggestions for alternatives that will prove more effective and less destructive. An able Committee of the Association is undertaking to formulate such alternatives. At this writing a proposal is pending in the A.B.A. House of Delegates to remove the requirement of a system of academic tenure from those necessary for law school accredita- tion. Support for this proposal is in some cases based on assumptions about law schools and law teachers that are clearly wrong. Moreover, if tenure is eliminated, to what other forms of job security will some law faculties turn? I find it hard to believe that the alternatives will prove more congenial to those who today propose the abolition of tenure. It is neither necessary nor desirable that all law teachers become immediately in- volved in the solution of these and related problems; but. it is important that there now be a wider awareness of their existence among law faculty members. Otherwise much may by lost before awareness comes. We live in Camelot no longer. Maybe you've noticed. Francis A. Allen President 1976 ANNUAL MEETING RESEARCH AND FELLOWSHIP BULLETIN The 1976 Annual Meeting will be held December The Association's National Office is pre- 27-30 in Houston, Texas. Co-headqua-ter hotels paring a bulletin dealing with sources of funds will be the Sheraton-Houston and the Hyatt Regency for research and fellowships of interest to law Houston. Other participating hotels will be the teachers. This bulletin should be mailed within Whitehall, the Lamar and the Holiday Inn. a couple of weeks. Millard H. Ruud, Executive Director Printing and Distributing: Courtesy of the Foundation Press, Inc.

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