SALT's mission is to:

make the legal profession more inclusive and reflective of the great diversity of this nation
enhance the quality of legal education by advancing social justice within the curriculum and promoting innovative teaching methodologies
extend the power of law to underserved individuals and communities

SALT Teaching Conference Call for Panels & Papers Deadline Extended to May 15, 2012

SALT Teaching Conference: Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access to Justice: The Role of Legal Education & the Legal Profession--October 5-6, 2012, Baltimore, MD

SALT's 2012 Teaching Conference--Deadline for Proposals Extended to May 15, 2012

Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access to Justice: The Role of Legal Education & the Legal Profession, October 5-6, 2012, hosted by University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law will examine innovative efforts to advance social justice within the law school curriculum and important efforts to extend access to justice to underserved individuals and communities. Download a PDF of the full Call for Panels & Papers.

The LatCrit, Inc/SALT Tenth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop will precede the conference on October 4-5.

Thank you to University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law for hosting the conference and to our law school sponsors to date:

Gold: CUNY School of Law, Santa Clara University Law School, Seattle University School of Law, and Suffolk University Law School

Silver: Golden Gate University School of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law, Touro Law Center, and Valparaiso University School of Law

Thank you to New Connections, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for supporting the Junior Faculty Development Workshop.

Thanks to Carolina Academic Press and Lexis Nexis, too, for supporting the conference.

Program Highlights:

Andi Curcio, Tanya Washington, Dr. Teresa Ward
Georgia State University College of Law
Using the Movement to Develop Learning Outcomes to Put “Cultural Sensibility” Skills into the Curriculum

Cathryn Miller-Wilson
Villanova University School of Law
Harmonizing Current Threats: Using the Outcry for Legal Education Reforms to Take Another Look at Civil Gideon and What It Means to be an American Lawye

Visit our new "Getting to Know Baltimore" page and watch for highlights of panels for the upcoming October 4-6, 2012 SALT teaching conference.

Comments on Standards 211 & 212 and Proposed Outcome Measures

On Friday, April 13, SALT submitted two comments to the ABA Standards Review Committee for consideration at its upcoming April 27-28, 2012 Meeting.

Deadline Extended to Nominate SALT Human Rights Award

Mark your calendars: This year the SALT Annual Dinner will be on Sunday, January 6, 2013, at the Loews Hotel in New Orleans. Nominate a friend or colleague for SALT's M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award by May 29. Deadline extended!.

Fall 2012 SALT Nominations Statements

The SALT Board of Governors is proud to announce the slate of candidates for the October 2012 election to the Board, which was approved at its March 23, 2012 meeting. According to SALT’s bylaws, the names and statements of interest of these candidates are to be announced...

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The SALTLAW Blog discusses topics like access to justice; diversity; legal education & regulation; pedagogy; and social justice…As a SALT Member, you can join in the conversation.