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1980 Newsl. 1 (1980)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews1980 and id is 1 raw text is: ir,> ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS 0 ONE DUPONT CIRCLE 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 NO. 80-1 FEB. 1980 President's Message This summer, John A. Bauman, Professor of Law at the University of California Los Angeles, will begin working with Millard Ruud to take over as Executive Director of the Association of American Law Schools when Millard leaves to rejoin the faculty at the University of Texas. The Selection Committee, consisting of Dean Richard G. Huber, Chairman, Professoi David H. Vernon and Professor Eugene F. Scoles has served us well. So too has the Executive Committee in this selection. John was our unanimous choice. John has a distinguished record as a legal educator, including a number of years as Associate Dean at U.C.L.A. His most recent service to the Association of American Law Schools has been his outstanding leadership as Chairman of the Committee on Accreditation. John does not replace Millard. Millard has served in his own way with the greatest distinction, and John will serve in his way. But all of us who participated in the selection are fully confident that we could not have obtained a better successor than John Bauman. We deeply appreciate his willingness to serve and frankly the Association deserves congratulations for having obtained his services. Continuing this first presidential message, I want to report on the beginnings of what I think will be an important endeavor of the Association. At our meeting in Phoenix and also as I have talked to deans and law teachers elsewhere, the single greatest concern I hear expressed is the need for coming to grips with problems arising out of federal regulatory programs that affect faculty, students, applicants, and the schools themselves. Concern is not directed at the subject matter of the regulatory programs themselves. There is, for example, total support for insuring fairness in treatment of faculty, students, and applicants growing out of differences in race, national origin, religion and gender. Yet, the most common complaint I hear voiced concerns the excessive burden placed upon the law schools by unreasonable enforcement proceedings by federal agencies of insubstantial corulaints. It does not threaten fine programs such as these to try to eliminate wasted motion and wasted expense so that the programs can concentrate upon enforcement of valid complaints. I brought this matter to the attention of the Executive Committee at its late January meeting. The Executive Committtee agrees that-we should begin a general affirmative program to try to work out with the government agencies some sort of cooperative guidelines and procedures. Accordingly, as the first step, by a separate memorandum I am asking the deans of the member schools to send me brief summaries of extreme situations in which government agencies caused the schools to expend inordinate amounts of time and energy in responding to complaints without substance. The purpose of collecting these instances is to aggregate our experiences. When these extreme examples are collected, we will analyse them to determine what may be the administrative environment and institutional factors that account for them and then develop suggestions for administrative changes that may reduce the instances of unnecessary and burdensome administrative conduct. We plan then to approach the government agencies to see if some effective standards for justifiable investigations can be worked out. Later, we hope to broaden the program to make it a cooperative general endeavor to improve the quality of procedures the government uses in regulating aspects of legal educaticn. Regulation is not going to go away. Where it exists, we must seek affirmatively to make it work with efficiency and with as little unjustified burden as possible. We plan to enlist the aid of the Committee on Government Relations and other committees in this program. JERRE S. WILLIAMS President DITOR: MARIANNE R. FIORENTINO, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: MILLARD H. RUUD Printing and Distribution Courtesy of Foundation Pr~ess, Inc. WLTI

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