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1995 Newsl. 1 (1995)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews1995 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 3 : February 1995 Number 95-1 The President's Message AALS as a Learning Society By Judith W Wegner I'm deeply honored to be chosen to serve this year as president of this esteemed organization. Some of our country's foremost legal educators- including some of my personal heroes and heroines-have stood where I stand today. It is a great privilege, as well as a hum- bling prospect, to assume this mantle and to endeavor to carry forward their-and your-important work. I'm reminded of the comments offered to Parliament by Sir Winston Churchill on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Churchill had been commended by Clement Attlee for his powerful oratory during World War II. He said that he was glad that his speeches had expressed the will not only of the Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquer- able. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words, you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was the nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. In this era of truth in advertising, I must hasten to assure you that-although I'm told that this is my day to roar-I lay no claim to being Winston Churchill. Instead, like many of you, I come from humble origins, a child of this country's great tradition of public education, the first in my family to receive a college education, and the first to win a law degree. It is thus, perhaps, not surprising that I hold deep in my heart the values for which the AALS has come to stand: a commitment to justice for all, a devotion to learning as the means to forge a better world, and a dedication to collegial strategies that model these values and objectives. I now undertake the sobering task of serving as the Association' s-and your-spokesperson, of leading this far- flung group of legal educators as we prepare our hearts, engage our minds, and poise ourselves as individuals and as members of diverse institutions to face today's challenges and prepare for tomorrow's more challenging world. Thesis I am told that the tradition on this Bylaws Amended by the House of Representatives The AALS House of Representatives voted to amend the AALS bylaws, after some discussion at both meetings of the House at the Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The new Bylaw 6-9 contains all four subsections proposed by the Execu- tive Committee, after surviving a vote that would have eliminated one of the subsec- tions. The old Bylaw 6-9 was short and vague, and in its entirety stated: A member school shall offer a comprehen- sive curriculum, a sound educational program, and courses in various fields often enough to afford students an opportunity to participate in them. The new Bylaw 6-9, Curriculum and Pedagogy, is designed to give more guidance to schools in the areas of curriculum and pedagogy while being flexible enough to allow schools to design their own programs. The new bylaw states: a. The curriculum of a member school should be the result of a curriculum (Please turn to page 11) Printing and Distribution Courtesy of Foundation Press, Inc. AALS President Judith W. Wegner spoke at the Second Meeting of the House of Representatives at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans in January. occasion is for the President-elect to offer comments on his or her hopes for legal education, and to suggest how the Association might best, in the coming year, foster the improvement of the legal profession through legal education, its continuing quest since its founding in 1900. For the next few minutes I will (Please turn to page 2) Inside Women in Law Schools Executive Committee member Deborah Rhode writes about the woman problem, and AALS Resarch Associate Richard White reports on the gender and minority levels in law school faculty .... 6 & 7 Russia in the Springtime Executive Director Carl Monk reports on a recent AALS project that will recruit U.S. law professors to go to Russia and Ukraine to help the law schools ..................................... 5

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