The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Scholarship is pleased to announce a joint program with the Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research and the Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information to be held during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting. This pedagogy program is titled Supporting the Student Scholar.
Supporting the Student Scholar (Pedagogy Program) – Session Description
Student scholars have the potential to play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of legal scholarship. This panel will focus on strategies and initiatives aimed at empowering faculty to support students in their scholarly endeavors, whether within the law school seminar, on a student-run law review, or elsewhere. Panelists will discuss their methods and invite discussion among all attendees to share practical suggestions and techniques to implement.
Call for Presentations – Submission Details
One to three additional panelists will be chosen from this Call for shorter, lightning-style (approximately 10 minutes) presentations sharing lessons, ideas, issues, or insights around the theme. Presenters selected from this Call will join Emily Prifogle (Michigan Law), James Fallows Tierney (Chicago Kent), Lisa Pruitt (UC-Davis), and Jessica Shoemaker (moderator, Nebraska College of Law).
Please submit a short (maximum 500-word abstract) to Jessica Shoemaker (jshoemaker@unl.edu) with “AALS Submission: Student Scholarship” in the subject line. Submissions must be received by September 9, 2024.
We welcome submissions that address any of the topics described in the Program Description that involve law schools or lawyers. We invite proposals from law faculty including junior and/or clinical faculty, as well as participants who provide diversity and who reflect a variety of law schools. Per AALS rules, only full-time faculty members and fellows of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit an abstract to Sections’ calls for presentations. All panelists, including speakers selected from this Call for Presentations, are responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.
Selected presenters will be announced by no later than September 13, 2024.
Inquiries or Questions
Any inquiries about the Call for Presentations should be submitted to Professors Jessica Shoemaker (jshoemaker@unl.edu), Moderator, or Danielle Jefferis (danielle.jefferis@unl.edu), Section on Scholarship Chair.