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2005 AALS News 1 (2005)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews2005 and id is 1 raw text is: February 2005 Number 2005-1 The President's Message Empirical Scholarship: What Should We Study and How Should We Study It? By N. William Hines I first attended an AALS Annual Meeting at the classy Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago in December 1961. Sam Thurmond succeeded Page Keeton as AALS President at my first meeting, and I remember thinking: I wonder what AALS President N. William these charming gentlemen Hines addresses the House had done to merit election of Representatives at 2005 as AALS President? I Annual Meeting now think I know the answer, based on my own long experience. They did their best to live up to the high standards of the legal academy throughout their careers, toiled loyally in a variety of service roles on behalf of the AALS, and then they got a lucky roll of the dice in the Nominating Committee. The truth is that in any year there are literally hundreds of colleagues in the legal academy who deserve the honor that is conferred on me today. I humbly accept the leadership responsibilities as AALS President for 2005 in the knowledge that there are lots of men and women in this room who could do the job as well or better than I will. At this point I would be remiss not to pay tribute to the tremendous examples of leadership set by my immediate predecessors as 21st Century AALS presidents. Mary Kay Kane led us in a reexamination of our organizational mission through which our core values were identified; Dale Whitman Dale Whitman invited us to contemplate the implications for our teaching and scholarship of the rapid globalization of law and legal practice in the 21st Century; Mark Tushnet successfully directed our attention to the Association's unique responsibilities and challenges as a learned society of law scholars; and Gerald Torres extended the emphasis on scholarship to explore the depth of our professional engagement with the world around us. Over the past three years I have been privileged to work closely with this quartet of extraordinary leaders, with an Executive Committee of outstanding colleagues, and with a wonderfully able AALS staff, led by the incomparable Carl Monk, who I am delighted to report recently agreed to extend his service as Executive Director for three more years. Deputy Director Joyce Saltalamachia and Associate Director Jane La Barbara have done their best to keep us all well informed about AALS business and to keep the organization's wheels turning smoothly. If I am not now fully steeped in the values of the Association and versed in its inner workings, the fault is mine and not my terrific mentors. I also wish to express my deep appreciation to my Iowa faculty colleagues who allowed me to serve as their dean for 28 years, and thereby achieve the visibility that made today's Continued on page 2 West and Foundation Press are proud sponsors of the Association of American Law Schools and provide complimentary printing and mailing to AALS and its members

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