Have a great idea for programming at the AALS Annual Meeting? Organize an Arc of Career or Open Source session for the 2022 meeting in New York without being affiliated with an AALS Section.

View the full requests and submit your proposals online on the Annual Meeting website.

Open Source

This category includes four types of programs:

• Open Source programs are traditional scholarly programs other than those sponsored by an AALS Section. Proposals are due April 12.
• Discussion Groups provide a setting for discussions among a small group of invited participants. Proposals are due April 12.
• Symposia are extended sessions (half-day or longer) that focus on in-depth scholarly exploration of a topic of academic interest. Proposals are due May 10.
• Hot Topic programs focus on topics that emerge too late in the year to be included in other types of programs. Proposals due October 18.

Proposals are solicited and reviewed by the Program Committee for the 2021 Annual Meeting.

Arc of Career

Arc of Career sessions address a broad range of professional development topics for faculty and administrators. This year, the Committee on Arc of Career Programs particularly encourages proposals for programs on topics related to lessons learned from the pandemic, among other topics listed in the full Request for Proposals.

Successful proposals for prior Annual Meeting sessions have addressed such issues as:

• The Lateral Experience – Deans and Hiring Committee Chairs
• Opportunities and Challenges for LGBTQ+ Persons in Leadership in Law Schools
• Tweeting, Gramming: Social Media for the Legal Academic
• Teaching Abroad: For Visitorships, Sabbaticals, Retirements and Summer Programs
• Becoming an Associate Dean: New Challenges the Multiple Associate Model Brings to Managing Communication and Conflict
• What to Make of Student Evaluations
• Building Bridges and Social Justice Through Collaborative Centers and Initiatives
• Encore Faculty: Preparing For Life Beyond the Legal Academy
• Design Thinking for Law Professors
• Opportunities and Challenges for Faculty of Color in Skills-Focused Law Teaching and Law Administration
• Branching Out in Your Post-Tenure Career
• Chartering New Waters: Clinicians’ Post-Tenure Reflections

The Committee hopes to receive proposals for all legal education professionals, including tenure and tenure-track faculty, contract and special faculty, administrators, and other constituencies.

Arc of Career Program proposals are due April 12. Questions may be directed to [email protected].