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2012 AALS News 1 (2012)

handle is hein.aals/aalsnews2012 and id is 1 raw text is: Association of American Law Schools Presidential Address 2012 Lauren K. -Robe!, Uiversi) of Indiana Maurer School of Law, Blooming to Last week, the National LawJournal published its Top Io Law School Stories of 2011. Mercifully, one of them involved a dog. The NLJ reported that a compassionate Yale law librarian brought Monty the dog to the stacks to soothe students' exam- jangled nerves. The remaining nine stories constituted the past year's bill of particulars against law schools. The stories were arrayed along a fairly narrow spectrum from dreadful to horrible: breaches of data integrity; calls for Congressional hearings about law school debt or graduate unemployment; declining applicants; high and rising law school costs; lawsuits by graduates; and claims that legal academics are, in the NLJ's striking summary, ivory tower-dwelling chin strokers who neglect to teach their students how to practice law. Perhaps law schools should have engaged more adorable animals this past year! Many law faculty, administrators, and staff who have committed their lives to legal education are deeply disheartened and dismayed by the past year's barrage of negative press, consumer class actions, and senatorial suspicion. Some of the critics frame their stories in ways that cast those in the academy as the adversaries of our students and graduates. To most of us who make our in tlives in the legal academy, these stories have been painful, sometimes excruciatingly so. Our vocation 8 AALS Administration and Stewardship of IALS Has Ended commits us to do our level best to honor and bring to 9 2012 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education fruition the hopes and dreams of the human beings who entrust their futures to us - and to do this with 11 Nomninations for AALS Executive Committee and full knowledge that we are preparing our graduates President-Elect to be the guardians and advocates of those who will in 11 2012 Annual Meeting Podcasts turn entrust their futures, dreams, hopes, businesses, families, and lives to them. This is not trivial work, and 12 AALS Workshop on Torts, Environmnent and Disaster few could sustain it without the deeply human rewards 14 2012 AALS Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: it brings. Much of the human joy of being a teacher How Do IP, Internet and Blo-Law Adapt? comes from the long arc of trust and relationships we build with our students and graduates. At our alumni reception here a few days ago, I stared intently into 20 Call for Proposals for Crosscutting Programns for the face of a former student until I conjured his name. 2013 AALS Annual Meeting He had devoted his life to the JAG corps. He was now a colonel, and that life had been filled with integrity, purpose, and service. All of our lives are measured 24 Upcoming Workshops for Your New Law School Faculty most meaningfully by the successes of such a student, and the Workshop for Pretenured People of Color and the intense pleasure of seeing a graduate build Law School Faculty a career of integrity and purpose is unmatched. Too 26 It's a Banner Year for Memnbership many of our graduates face the disappointment and 2 Standing Room Only at the 2012 Workshop on the Future of continued on page 2 Printed as a Public Service by West Law School Publishing and Foundation Press.

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