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1994 Newsl. 1 (1994)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews1994 and id is 1 raw text is: THE EWSLTTER Number 94-1 February 1994 The President's Message From Disney World to Mardi Gras: new directions in legal education by Rennard Strickland I'm deeply honored to have been nominated to be your 92nd President of the Association of American Law Schools. At the beginning of this conference when I spoke to the mini-workshop on tokenism and leadership, when I said that I thought I was a very unlikely president, Herma Hill Kay reminded me that I should not say that because it made it look like her Nominating Committee was an unlikely nominating committee. I will only repeat what a number of my colleagues have cynically suggested. It seems somehow appropriate that I become a presi- dent at a meeting held in Disney World. In defense of the chair of that Nominating Committee, I believe Herma had some information about my long association with the Disney operation itself. Soon after I graduated from law school, I became involved in a controversy between a Hopi Kachina maker who was making Mickey Mouse Kachinas and the Disney people. They did not take well to this, nor did they listen to my arguments about cross-cultural relevance. I still possess the field mouse Kachina which the Hopi Kachina maker chose to substitute for Mickey. I thought that perhaps in my 20-plus years in legal education I had gained additional skills, so in preparation for my presidency I talked with Jane La Barbera, and she and I began the process of creating for this meeting that quintessential of all modern works of art, a t-shirt, the official AALS 1994 t-shirt. And on it we were to have the poster of the only animated Disney film about law called The Trial of Donald Duck. And it would say at the top, From Disney World to Mardi Gras, New Directions in Legal Education, the theme of my presidency. continued on page 2 Printing and Distribution Courtesy of Foundation Press, Inc. Bylaw amendments acted on by House At its 1994 meeting, the House of Representatives passed amendments to Bylaw Section 5-4, Executive Committee Regulations and Rulings and Bylaw Section 6-3(a), now titled Design and Mission of Juris Doctor Degree Program. The antecedent version of Bylaw 5- 4 provided that amendments to Exec- utive Committee Regulations (ECRs) take effect sixty (60) days after they are promulgated by the Executive Committee unless one-fourth of member schools object. The House adopted a proposed change that re- duces the number of schools that are required to object to ten (10). After being tabled during the 1993 House session because of concerns expressed about one of the proposed ECRs, the proposed amendments to Bylaw 6-3(a) were adopted at the 1994 meeting. The concern ex- pressed in 1993 related to proposed ECR 2.6 which would have preclud- ed a joint degree program with a foreign institution if a student would receive more than one semester of credit for work at that institution. continued on page 5 What's Inside... Touro admitted to membership .... Annual Meeting '94 Photos ....... Clinical Conference to be held in June ~5 ..... 11-13 . ...... 17 AALS Dates to Note ...... 20

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