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2006 AALS News 1 (2006)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews2006 and id is 1 raw text is: Chapman and Roger Williams Join AALS On January 4, 2006 the AALS House of Representatives unani- mously voted to admit Chapman University School of Law and the Roger Williams University Ralph R. Papitto School of Law into membership of the Association. The Executive Committee found both schools had fulfilled and were capable in the future of fulfill- ing the obligations of membership in the Association as stated in the Bylaws and Executive Committee Regulations. The Committee therefore recommended that they be admitted to membership. The Chapman University School of Law is the descendant of Hesperian College, an institu- tion that began operation in 1861; in 1934 it was renamed Chapman College. Chapman College moved to Orange County, California, in 1954 and became Chapman University in I99I. The School of Law admitted its first class in Continued on page 6 Expanding Knowledge and Serving Our Communities: Academic, Civil and International (Editor's Note: The following is the Presidential Address ofJudith Areen before the House of Representatives at the 2006 Annual Meeting inJanuagy.) Professor Judith C. Areen, Georgetown Universiy 2006 AALS President Members of the House of Representatives, colleagues, friends and family: it is a great privilege to serve as President of the AALS, which for more than a century has worked to improve the legal pro- fession through legal education. Leadership of the Association is very much a shared enterprise, and I am fortunate to have the guidance of a superb Executive Committee and AALS staff. I extend my deep- est thanks to each of you, par- ticularly to Carl Monk, Elizabeth Patterson andJane La Barbera. I also want to thank the four Association presidents I have been honored to serve under for your leadership and friend- ship - Deborah Rhode, Greg Williams, Elliott Milstein and Bill Hines - and to extend a warm welcome to the incom- ing members of the Executive Committee: Reese Hansen, Robert Post and Nancy Rogers. This is an Association that depends on the dedicated service of many volunteers. To all of our committee members, chairs, section leaders, speakers and the members of this House, I extend my personal thanks for your many contribu- tions. The Association would not function without your good service. For three years now, presidents of the AALS have focused on our scholarly mission. Mark Tushnet began the new emphasis in 2003 when he highlighted the role of the AALS as the learned society of the legal profession. In 2004, Gerald Torres celebrated engaged scholar- ship and the unique opportunity we have as legal scholars to engage the humanities generally as well as the social and natural sciences in the study of law, legal institu- tions and their role in creating and understanding the world we live in. For this past year, Bill Hines has encouraged empirical research, by reminding us that it is essential to inquire whether the law is based on correct assumptions about how the world works and people behave. Continued on page 2 Printed as a Public Service by West Law School Publishing and Foundation Press.

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