Two Fordham Law professors will be honored and 11 faculty members will speak at the 2024 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, held from January 3 to 6 in Washington, D.C.
The AALS Annual Meeting brings together legal scholars each year to share their expertise in their respective fields of law. Fordham Law will be represented at the conference by faculty members from several areas, including constitutional law, racial justice, and philanthropy law.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Defending Democracy,” with several panels tackling major questions about the role of legal educators and the legal profession in preserving democratic institutions. “Law schools can play a critical role in the future of our country and our democracy,” said AALS President Mark Alexander. “When we raise our collective voice, people listen. Defending democracy is not about politics. It’s about what we can do together.”
Two Fordham Law professors will be presented with awards this year in recognition of their exceptional academic work.
Benjamin Zipursky, James H. Quinn ’49 Chair in Legal Ethics and professor of law, will be presented with the Hart-Dworkin Award which recognizes “significant and lasting contributions to the philosophical understanding of law.” The award is being given jointly to Zipursky and John Goldberg (Harvard) for their work on tort theory.
Friday, January 5: 10:00 a.m.
Courtney Cox, associate professor of law, will be recognized with the Jurisprudence Article Award for her article “The Uncertain Judge,” which appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review in 2023. The award is “given annually to a tenured or tenure-track scholar in recognition of a single article or book chapter published in the prior year that exemplifies exceptional philosophical work in legal scholarship.”
Friday, January 5: 10:00 a.m.
View the full list of faculty and staff panel events below:
Atinuke Adediran, Associate Professor of Law
AALS Discussion Group: Can Companies Help? – Furthering Racial Equity Through Corporate & Securities Laws and Disclosures
Wednesday, January 3: 10-11:40 a.m.
Eleanor Brown, Professor of Law
Session on Socio-Economics: History of Capitalism
Friday, January 5: 4-5:40 p.m.
Norrinda Brown, Associate Professor of Law
Minority Groups, Co-Sponsored by Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education: Everything Old is New Again
Thursday, January 4: 3-4:40 p.m.
Law and the Social Sciences: New Fronts in Equality Law and Social Sciences
Saturday, January 6: 10-11:40 a.m.
Bennett Capers, Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Professor of Law, and Director, Center on Race, Law, and Justice
AALS Workshop for Pretenured Law School Teachers of Color: Scholarship
Friday, January 5: 3-3:55 p.m.
Bernice Grant, Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law Joint Program: New & Emerging Voices in Workplace Law
Friday, January 5: 12-1:40 p.m.
Sean J. Griffith, T.J. Maloney Chair in Business Law; Director, Fordham Corporate Law Center
Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference, 7 MInute Presentations of Works in Progress
Thursday, January 4: 3-4:15 p.m.
Youngjae Lee, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research
AALS Awards Ceremony, Presentation of Scholarly Paper Competition Awards
Thursday January 4: 1:15-2:30 p.m.
Sepehr Shahshahani, Associate Professor of Law
Antitrust and Economic Regulation: Does Antitrust Have a Role in Defending Democracy?
Friday, January 5: 8-9:40 a.m.
Linda F. Sugin, Professor of Law
Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law: Papers Selected as the Most Outstanding Recent Work in Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law
Friday, January 5: 10-11:40 a.m.
Julie C. Suk, Professor of Law
Constitutional Law: Reviving Article V – A Structural Approach to Defending Democracy
Friday, January 5: 2-3:40 p.m.
Maggie Wittlin, Associate Professor of Law
Evidence and Law and the Social Sciences Joint Program: Daubert at 30 – Reflecting on the Past, Present, and Future of Expert Evidence
Friday January 5: 10-11:40 a.m.