Wrapping up the AALS Annual Meeting 2016

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is a nonprofit association of 179 law schools. The association serves as the learned society for over 9,000 law faculty at its member schools, and provides them with extensive professional development opportunities, including the AALS Annual Meeting which draws thousands of professors, deans and administrators each year.

The 2016 AALS Annual Meeting took place from 6-10 January, at the New York Hilton Midtown. This year’s conference theme was From Challenge to Innovation: American Legal Education in 2016, and the program included 200 sessions, 800 moderators, speakers, and discussion leaders, seven new types of program sessions and events, not to mention 50 networking events.

This year’s outstanding array of speakers included:

A special welcome from Michael R. Bloomberg, Former Mayor of New York City and Founder, Bloomberg L.P. & Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Honorable Justice Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court of the United States
Paulette Brown, ABA President
The Honorable Robert A. Katzmann, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and author of Judging Statutes
Blake D. Morant, AALS President and Dean, The George Washington University Law School
Deborah L. Rhode, Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship (Stanford), and author of The Trouble with Lawyers and Lawyers as Leaders

One of the most memorable parts of the conference was getting to catch up with so many of our fantastic authors! Below is a photo slideshow of the authors that visited our booth.

Symeon Symeonides with Blake Ratcliff

Blake Ratcliff, Acquisitions Editor alongside Symeon Symeonides, author of Codifying Choice of Law Around the World: An International Comparative Analysis.

Ross Guberman with Jo Wojtkowski

Jo Wojtkowski, Marketing Manager alongside Ross Guberman, author of Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation’s Top Advocates and Point Taken: How to Write Like the World’s Best Judges.

Philip Meyer

Philip Meyer, author of Storytelling for Lawyers.

Neil H. Cogan

Neil H. Cogan, author of The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins.

Robert Katzmann

Robert Katzmann, author of Judging Statutes.

Dennis Patterson

Dennis Patterson, author of Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience.

James Fleming

James Fleming, author of Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution:


For Moral Readings and Against Originalisms.

Jonathan Todres

Jonathan Todres, author of Human Rights in Children’s Literature:


Imagination and the Narrative of Law.

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., author of Privacy Revisited: A Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone.

And remember that we are still offering a 20% off discount for all our titles on display at the conference until 9 March 2016.

Image Credit: “Law” by Woody Hibbard. CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

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