Society Of American Law Teachers

A community of progressive law teachers working for justice, diversity, and academic excellence

Conferences

Las Vegas Teaching Conference
Las Vegas Teaching Conference 2004

For over twenty years, SALT has been organizing teaching conferences on topics that challenge law schools, faculties, and the legal community to reexamine how law is taught and how law can be used to solve the problems facing our communities and our nation.

  • "Teaching for Social Change," March 2008, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, US Berkeley School of Law
  • "Academic Freedom and Teaching Activism in the Post-9/11 World," September, 2006 Suffolk Law School, Boston, MA
  • "Class in the Classroom," October, 2004 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Law School, Las Vegas, NV
  • "Teaching in Crisis, Teaching about Crisis: Law, Peace and Pedagogy," October, 2002, Fordham University Law School, New York, NY
  • "Teaching, Testing and the Politics of Legal Education in the 21st Century," October, 2000, NYU Law School, New York, NY
  • "Power, Pedagogy & Praxis: Moving the Classroom to Action," October 1998, Loyola University Law School, New Orleans, LA
  • "Re-Conceiving Legal Pedagogy: Diversity in Classrooms, Clinics, Theory & Practice," September 1997, American University, Washington, DC
  • "Diversity in the Law School Curriculum," September 1994, Minneapolis/St. Paul
  • "Re-Imagining Traditional Law School Courses: Workshops Integrating Class, Disability, Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation and Other Issues of Social Concern into Teaching and Course Materials," May 1993, NYU Law School, New York City, NY & October 1993, Santa Clara University, San Jose, CA
  • "Private Gain or Public Interest: The Struggle for the Soul of American Legal Education," October 1991, Stanford University Law School, Palo Alto, CA & September 1990, NYU Law School, New York City, NY
  • "The Politics of Academic Freedom," December 1987, NYU Law School, New York City, NY
  • "Where’s the Beef?", December 1984, NYU Law School, New York, NY
  • "A Conference on Equality and A Conference on Goals in Law Teaching," December 1979, NYU Law School, New York City, NY
  • "National Conference on the Future of Legal Education," December 1976, NYU Law School, New York City, NY & February 1977, San Francisco