The 2023 AALS Conference features 12 participants from Fordham Law speaking about a range of topics related to this year’s theme, “How Law Schools Can Make a Difference.”
Professor Benjamin C. Zipursky and Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Gay McDougall will also be receiving awards at this year’s conference.
Professor Zipursky will be honored with the William L. Prosser Award by the AALS Section on Torts & Compensation Systems, alongside Harvard Law School Professor John C.P. Goldberg, on Jan. 5 at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time).
McDougall, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law, will receive the first Nelson Mandela Award from the AALS Section on International Human Rights Law on Jan. 7 at 12:00 p.m. (PST).
View the full list of faculty and staff panel events below.
Fordham Law Faculty & Staff at AALS
Atinuke Adediran, Associate Professor of Law
January 5 | 8:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. (PST)
Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law
“Current Issues in Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law”
January 6 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. (PST)
Business Associations
“Works-in-Progress Session”
Pamela Bookman, Associate Professor of Law
January 7 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. (PST)
Conflict of Laws, Co-Sponsored by Constitutional Law, Family and Juvenile Law, and Federal Courts
“Conflicts of Laws in a Post-Roe World”
Jordana Confino, Assistant Dean of Professionalism
January 6 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. (PST)
Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Academic Support, Clinical Legal Education, Student Services, and Teaching Methods
“Addressing the New ABA Standard 303: Strategies for Implementing Professional Identity Initiatives”
Nestor M. Davidson, Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law
January 6 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. (PST)
Property Law and State and Local Government Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Community Economic Development and Real Estate
“Homes, Neighborhoods, and the Future of Residential Land Use: Who Should Decide Where and How We Live”
January 6 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. (PST)
Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference
“Politicization of the Economy”
Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference
“What’s ‘Controversial’ About ESG? A Theory of Compelled Commercial Speech Under the First Amendment”
January 6 | 1:00 p.m – 2:40 p.m. (PST)
Family and Juvenile Law, Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law, Education Law, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
“The Politicization of Parenthood”
January 6 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. (PST)
Intellectual Property
“Emerging Voices in Intellectual Property”
January 4 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. (PST)
Legal History
“Misreading the Record: The Use (and Abuse) of History in Recent Federal Court Cases about the Administrative State”
January 6 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. (PST)
Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education, Co-Sponsored by Academic Support, Clinical Legal Education, Student Services, and Teaching Methods
“Addressing the New ABA Standard 303: Strategies for Implementing Professional Identity Initiatives”