March 19th, 2010 6:00 AM

     March 19th, 2010 6:00 PM

     Fordham Law Day Trip to Washington DC
     Washington DC

You are invited to join law students, faculty & administration from: NYU, Columbia, Brooklyn, Hofstra, New York Law, Cardozo, Touro, Rutgers Newark, Seton Hall, (possibly St John's, CUNY) & Fordham, for Lobby Day to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Fordham Law is coordinating a bus full of NYC area law students, faculty & administration to participate in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Washington DC Lobby Day, Friday, March 19, leaving Fordham Law at 6am sharp and returning to Fordham Law same day by about 6pm.  

     March 19th, 2010 8:00 AM

     March 19th, 2010 5:00 PM

     Capitol Hill
     Washington, DC

It’s that time again! As you may know, SLDN holds a Lobby Day each year to push for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Last year, nearly 200 people took part in Lobby Day, participating in more than 125 meetings in both the House and Senate. Since then, a record 187 representatives have signed onto the Military Readiness Enhancement Act (MREA). 

     March 19th, 2010 9:00 AM

     March 20th, 2010 6:00 PM

     Golden Gate University School of Law
     536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

Golden Gate University School of Law and SALT will be co-sponsoring a two-day teaching conference Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities: an interdisciplinary approach to law teaching, examining the latest theories and data collected by social scientists on poverty so that this new information can be effectively incorporated into legal education across the curriculum.

This conference is generously supported by the Elfenworks Foundation.  We thank the Foundation for making this conference possible.

Just added!!!!  Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, will introduce  John Payton, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as the Saturday morning plenary speaker.  Paul Butler, author of Let's Get Free: A Hip Hop Theory of Justice, will be speaking on the criminalization of poverty, along with Richard Delgado. 

Sneak Preview and Wine and Beer Reception!!!   California Newsreel will be sponsoring a wine and beer reception after the closing session on Friday afternoon and previewing a documentary-in-progress Turkey Creek, about a Mississippi community recovering from Hurricane Katrina.  The filmmakers will be answering questions and discussing this project.  Thank you California Newsreel!

Revised Program with room numbers now available!


Registration is now open!  $130 for this two-day conference.  Go to Dinner & Conferences (or click here) to register on-line with a credit card or download a pdf form to use with a check or credit card.

Click here to download a pdf of the event flyer.

     March 20th, 2010 5:00 PM

     March 20th, 2010 8:00 PM

     Golden Gate University School of Law
     536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

The Spring meeting of the SALT Board of Governors will be held on Saturday, March 20, 2010, immediately following the close of the Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities conference.

     March 21st, 2010 10:00 AM

     March 21st, 2010 3:00 PM

     Golden Gate University School of Law
     536 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94105

There are many roles available to practitioners within the legal academy and different routes on how to get there.  If you are considering a career switch into full-time teaching or administration, as a clinician, administrator, legal writing, or doctrinal professor, or if you are looking for a way to break into adjunct teaching, then come to this informative workshop and learn from insiders: deans, administrators, and seasoned faculty who took different routes into the academy.

At lunch participants will have an opportunity to meet in small groups and ask questions.  A perfect "first step" to learning how to become a law professor, whether part-time or full time. 

 Program Fee: $35.00

Golden Gate University School of Law students and alumni will be admitted for free with registration. 

Lunch will be served.

TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT, FOLLOW THIS LINK.

     March 25th, 2010 9:00 AM

     March 28th, 2010 6:00 PM

     University of South Carolina School of Law
     Columbia, SC

Equality and Justice in the Obama Era is the theme of the conference this year.

     April 15th, 2010 4:00 PM

     April 16th, 2010 6:15 PM

     Vermont Law School and University of Vermont
     South Royalton, VT and Burlington, VT

The Law and Politics of Marriage Equality: Vermont, the Nation, and the World

a joint program by Vermont Law School and University of Vermont

Download a pdf of the schedule.

     April 15th, 2010 5:00 PM

     April 16th, 2010 6:00 PM

     University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
     2255 E. Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80208

On Thursday, April 15, SALT and the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law are co-sponsoring this event.  Registration is free but space is limited.  Advance registration is required. 

Registration is open now!  Click here to register for this important conference. 

 

     April 16th, 2010 9:00 AM

     Santa Clara University School of Law
     500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA

The Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara Law invites you to attend the 2010 Women and the Law Stories Conference

     April 20th, 2010 6:00 PM

     April 20th, 2010 7:30 PM

     Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Courthouse
     500 Pearl Street, New York

The Federal Bar Council and Quinnipiac University are co-sponsoring a tribute to The Honorable Constance Baker Motley. 

     April 23rd, 2010 9:00 AM

     April 23rd, 2010 9:00 PM

     Franklin Pierce Law Center
     Two White Street, Concord, NH

With support from the Charles Evans Hughes Foundation, SALT is organizing an invitation-only meeting of deans, State Supreme Court Justices, and state bar examiners to learn more about the Daniel Webster Scholars Honors Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center.

     July 15th, 2010 12:00 PM

     July 17th, 2010 12:00 PM

     Stanford University, Center on the Legal Profession
     Palo Alto, CA

     September 9th, 2010 9:00 AM

     September 12th, 2010 6:00 PM

     Seton Hall Law School
     Newark, NJ

The six regional People of Color scholarship conferences—the Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Western—will come together for the first time since 2004 at the THIRD NATIONAL PEOPLE OF COLOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE on September 9-12, 2010, at Seton Hall University School of Law to explore the meaning of a “post-racial” society and its relevance to legal scholarship and teaching. Drawing on legal scholarship that examines historical and current racial contexts, the conference will address a broad range of critical national and global issues that disproportionately impact communities of color and other underrepresented groups.
 

     October 1st, 2010

     October 2nd, 2010

     New York Law School
     185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013

Save The Date:  A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Clinical Theory Workshop, to be held all day Friday, October 1, 2010, and on the morning of Saturday, October 2, 2010, at New York Law School. 

It's theme will be:

"Twenty-five years of clinical scholarship: What have we learned, and what should we work on next?"

     October 2nd, 2010

     October 3rd, 2010

     NYU School of Law
     110 W 3rd Street, New York, NY 10012

Save the Date:  The third writers' workshop sponsored by the Clinical Law Review, to be held Saturday afternoon, October 2, 2010 and Sunday morning, October 3, 2010, at NYU School of Law.  The writers' workshop welcomes clinicians with works-in-progress on all topics, whether specially clinical or not, and will meet in small groups whose members will discuss and offer suggestions for each other's works.

     October 7th, 2010 9:00 AM

     October 9th, 2010 6:00 PM

     Denver University
     Sturm College of Law

The Color of the Economic Crisis:
Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up

University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado, October 7-10, 2010

We are pleased to invite you to LatCrit XV, the Fifteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory) Conference, which begins in Denver, Colorado at Noon on Friday, October 8 and concludes Saturday night, October 9, 2010.  This year’s theme is “The Color of the Economic Crisis:  Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up”. Look for the Call for Papers in the next month or so, and plan to use the handy online process to submit your LCXV panel or paper proposal soon!

JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

As usual, we also will hold our Eighth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), beginning at 9:00 a.m. Thursday, October 7 (the day before the conference program kicks off).

     December 10th, 2010 9:00 AM

     December 11th, 2010 6:00 PM

     University of Hawai'i, William S. Richardson School of Law
     2515 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI

SALT Teaching Conference, December 10-11, 2010, to be held at the William S. Richardson School of Law in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

The conference's theme, Teaching in a Transformative Era: The Law School of the Future, will examine the most pressing challenges law schools face in the 21st century.

The Call for Panels and Papers is now available.  Click here to download.  Deadline has been extended to March 15, 2010.