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2004 Newsl. 1 (2004)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews2004 and id is 1 raw text is: February 2004 Number 2004-1 The President's Message Engaged Scholarship: Meaning and Action By Gerald Torres (The following is the Presidential Address of Gerald Torres Before the House of Representatives at the 2004 Annual Meeting in January.) At the risk of being accused of hubris I want to tell you all a secret. When I came into law teaching almost twenty- five years ago, one of the first things I noticed as I thumbed through the program book was the list of people who had served as president of this Association. I am not embarrassed to admit that it inspired in me a secret hope that I might one day serve as president of the Association and feel as though I had earned the right to join the list that I first surveyed so long ago. University of Nevada becomes 166th Member of AALS The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law has become the 166th member of the Association of American Law Schools. On January 3, 2004, at the Annual Meeting the Law School was welcomed unanimously by the AALS House of Representatives. The William S. Boyd School of Law of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, opened in August of 1998, and is the only law school in the state. It was created by an act of the legislature in 1997 after years of debate within the state over whether to establish a law school. It achieved full accreditation Continued on page 8 Without wanting to venture an opinion on whether I have indeed earned it, let me say that I am deeply honored to find myself realizing that youthful fantasy. But let me also add that between those early days and today I have tried to be of varied service to this organization. That service has been gratifying. And it has given me an interesting perch from which to witness the continual evolution of both the Association and the law schools that it serves. We have moved quite far in the direction of being the learned society for legal academics, and we have continued to develop additional ways to be of service to both the law schools and the profession. Let me now address both some of where we have been, what we have accomplished and Continued on page 2 INSIDE Call for Scholarly papers Deadline, eligibility requirements and other rules for the Association's annual Scholarly Paper Competition appear on page 15. Annual Meeting Photographs Pictures from the Annual Meeting in Atlanta last month appear on pages 12-13. 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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