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1986 Newsl. 1 (1986)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews1986 and id is 1 raw text is: N- T ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS e ONE DUPONT CIRCLE * WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 NO. 86-1 MARCH 1986 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE THE 1986 AGENDA By Susan Westerberg Prager It seems appropriate in this first newsletter of 1986 to note with special admiration Roger Cramton's ability and determination to focus the Association during his year as president on a number of ideas. Roger proposed that the AALS create an Association sponsored, peer reviewed, scholarly journal. He called for scholarly papers at the New Orleans annual meeting, beginning a tradition which strengthens our program by encouraging scholarship, particularly on the part of younger scholars. He boldly suggested that we work significant changes in the time, place and manner of law placement (perhaps through the device of a series of regional recruiting conferences), and he challenged the prevailing view of accreditation. While many of us will undoubtedly have difficulty embracing all of Roger's ideas, (I certainly have had my share of disagreements with his views, particularly those on accreditation), we owe him a great deal for creating one of the most lively and productive of the Association's 85 years. As I anticipate the coming months, I realize that much of our time will be devoted to further assessing and implementing a number of the ideas Roger has not only presented but caused to be evaluated during his term as AALS president. We will work to bring the scholarly journal into being, starting with the search for its first editor, a search which Professor Richard Stewart of Harvard will chair. A Joint Committee of the National Association for Law Placement and our Association will assess the possibilities for wide- ranging changes in the law placement process, using Professor Cramton's reconception as the starting point for discussion. We will attempt both to review the AALS accreditation standards and to redirect the AALS accreditation process to focus more on serious problems and less on minor ones. The theme that connects the projects which Roger outlined is the one that he made central in his presidential address, the importance of focusing the Association on its role in strengthening the central academic mission of our law schools. That, of course, is an ongoing theme that has played an increasingly large role in the work of the AALS during the last decade, as the Association's professional devleopment program has been developed and refined. The most important new work during this year will be the selection of a successor to Millard Ruud, who will be retiring as our executive director in July 1987. Because Millard is truly irre- placeable, President-elect Vic Rosenblum and I plan to devote much of EDITOR: NOEL J. AUGUSTYN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: MILLARD H. RUUD Printing and Distribution Courtesy of Foundation Press, Inc.

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