At this year's Annual Dinner, January 9, 2010, at the Hotel Monteleone, SALT honored Professor Francisco Valdes with its Great Teacher Award. Over the last 20 years, through teaching, scholarship, and service, Professor Valdes has exemplified the values and priorities of SALT.
Despite the rise in the number of available seats in American law schools, up nearly 4,000 seats in the last fifteen years, African American and Mexican American enrollment has decreased at an alarming rate.
To help law professors interested in developing, implementing and publishing empirical work on student learning and assessment issues, SALT has developed a list of potential social science collaborators who want to help create
Thank you, Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP for your pro bono representation of SALT.
CUNY Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession and SALT Workshop On Becoming a Law Professor was a Big Success. Working through the various metropolitan bar associations and committees, CUNY and SALT reached out to practitioners of color with information on how to become a law professor.
On April 16th, SALT and University of Denver Sturm College of Law co-sponsored an exciting conference, bringing together activists from Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Nebraska, along with national civil rights figures, to discuss ...
The ABA Presidential Diversity Initiative, convened to examine the diversity crisis within the legal profession, issued its final report on April 10, 2010, Next Steps, citing to SALT's "Disturbing Trend in Law School Admissions" and our mission to diversify the profession.
SB 549, which would limit the scope of the four law school clinics, was killed in committee on May 19. Click here to read more.
On Thursday, June 17th, American law professor Peter Erlinder from William Mitchell College of Law was released from prison, following his arrest in Kigali, Rwanda. Read more...
On November 24, 2009, SALT and LatCrit jointly signed a series of letters to the American Bar Association, members of Congress, and to the Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuño, protesting official government action in the aftermath of a series of
The SALT Board of Governors Election took place on Thursday, October 15 and ran through Wednesday, October 28th, 2009.
On June 21, 2010, SALT, along with thirty-seven other public interest organizations, filed amicus in Friendly House v. Whiting, calling for an injunction against implementation of SB 1070, the draconian Arizona immigration statute. The amicus brief was drafted by Covington & Burling, under the supervision of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.
Each spring U.S. News & World Report issues its rankings of American law schools, exerting enormous pressure on deans and faculties to reshape admissions practices and divert scarce resources.
In a letter, dated March 31, 2010, SALT opposed pending bills before the Maryland House and Senate that condition the release of funds to the University of Maryland School of Law’s Environmental Law Clinic...
The United Nations conducts a periodic review of signatory country’s compliance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Part of that process includes submission of reports by nonprofit organizations located in the signatory country, often contradicting or elaborating on that submitted officially by the government.
SALT congratulates Associate Justice Sotomayor in her confirmation to the United States Supreme Court.
Hosted by the University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School of Law, the SALT Teaching Conference will focus on Teaching in a Transformative Era: The Law School of the Future.
On May 5, 2010, Cinco de Mayo, SALT sent a letter to President Obama urging him to use his executive authority to stop enforcement of Arizona’s insidious SB 1070, which creates new state crimes stemming from illegal immigration and threatens the civil rights and liberties of thousands of Latino residents in the state.
SALT believes that the President should use his leadership position to end discrimination against gay and lesbian servicemembers.
The Nominations Committee is currently soliciting the names of SALT members who can run for one of several upcoming openings on the Board of Governors. Service on the Board of Governors gives members a close and active opportunity to shape and enforce
SALT and Golden Gate University School of Law and SALT co-sponsored a two-day teaching conference Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities: an interdisciplinary approach to law teaching.
The Hotel Monteleone is the setting for this year’s Annual Dinner. It’s been said that the French Quarter begins in the lobby of the Hotel Monteleone. This historic landmark is a member of Historic Hotels of America. The hotel is elegant and the food is authentic New Orleans cuisine.