Nominate the 2012 SALT Great Teacher

The Society of American Law Teachers—SALT—holds its annual dinner each year during the January AALS meeting, which is in Washington D.C. in 2012.  This year the dinner will be on Saturday, January 7th at the Cafritz Conference Center at George Washington University.  A highlight of the dinner is the presentation of SALT's Great Teacher Award.

The Great Teacher Award recognizes individuals or institutions that have made especially important contributions to teaching, legal education, and mentoring of students and younger faculty.

The following is a list of previous recipients of the Great Teacher award, starting with the most recent:

Phoebe Haddon, Francisco Valdés, Steve Wizner, Fran Ansley, Stephanie Wildman, Eric Yamamoto, Howard Glickstein, Bill Quigley, Charles Lawrence & Mari Matsuda, SALT Founders, Sylvia Law, Marjorie M. Schultz, Anthony Amsterdam, Jim Jones, W. Hayward Burns, Barbara Aldave, Trina Grillo, Norman Dorsen, Cruz Reynoso, Mary Jo Frug, Marilyn Yarborough, Rhonda Rivera, University of Wisconsin Law School, Howard Lesnick, Barbara Babcock, Clinton Bamberger, CUNY Law School, Derrick Bell, Herma Hill Kay, Charles Black, Arthur Leff, Harry Edwards, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rennard Strickland, Thomas Emerson, Charles Miller, David Cavers.

If you would like to make a nomination, please submit the name of the person or organization and a 1-2 page statement supporting that nomination for SALT Great Teacher.  The statement should explain why the person or organization deserves the award, including how they contribute to the values of SALT.  You must be a current member of SALT to make a nomination.  You can check the status of your membership with Hazel Weiser or Elizabeth Luzzi in the SALT Office.  Please submit all nominations by May 9, 2011, to Ruben Garcia at rjg@cwsl.edu and Hazel Weiser hweiser@saltlaw.org.  We strongly encourage you to re-nominate candidates who have been nominated in past years, as every year we have many worthy nominees, but only one Great Teacher award.