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SALT’S Junior Faculty Award Society of American Law Teachers Junior Faculty Award Nomination Form The Society of American Law Teachers seeks nominations for the SALT Junior Faculty Award, to be awarded at the SALT Teaching Conference on October 5-6, 2018 hosted at Penn State Law. This prestigious award recognizes…

SALT Comment on Standard 503 – March 31 2018

We invite panel proposals and paper presentations that speak to this year’s theme of “economic hope, power and justice,” as well as to general ClassCrits themes. More information is available here including logistics and fees. In addition, we extend a special invitation to junior scholars (i.e., graduate students or…

In the adjudication of criminal law, judges tend to agree upon the elements that make up a given crime, but are less certain about exactly which element the law seeks to punish. For example, in child pornography possession statutes, it is difficult to determine the underlying transgression that is targeted…

SALT celebrated the 2018 annual event with the the Great Teacher award, the Shanara Gilbert Human Rights award, and Junior Faculty Teaching awards.  And we had a great time celebrating together! More photos from the event posted here.

Join us in honoring Professor Katie Eyer and Professor Lua Yuille at the SALT Annual Awards Celebration on January 5, 2018 in San Diego SALT is proud to recognize Associate Professor Katie Eyer (Rutgers) and Associate Professor Lua Yuille (University of Kansas) as its 2017 Junior Faculty Teaching Award winners.

Join us for the SALT Annual Awards Celebration! Friday evening, January 5, 2018  Click here for details, including tickets, sponsorships, and journal ads. At its upcoming Annual Awards Celebration to be held on January 5, 2018, in San Diego, SALT will honor two champions of justice, diversity and teaching…

By SpearIt, Ph.D., J.D., Thurgood Marshall School of Law Commenting on his book, American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam. In recent decades, the United States has been under a “lock ’em up and throw away the key” mentality when it comes to imprisonment. The…

August 14, 2017 STATEMENT OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN LAW TEACHERS ON THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA (UNC) CENTER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS The Society of American Law Teachers, founded more than 40 years ago, is a national organization with members at law schools throughout the United States. SALT…

Pictured, 2017 Award Winner Zahra Billoo SALT holds an annual awards event to celebrate the SALT’s community, values, and honorees to coincide with the January AALS meeting. Mark your calendars: This year’s SALT awards celebration will be on Friday, January 5, 2018, at a location TBA in San Diego.  A…

SALT is proud to announce the selection of Co-Presidents Elect and nominees to the Board of Governors.  Their photos and statements of interest are set out below.  The Board nominees will be presented as a slate at the SALT Annual Member Meeting to be held on Saturday, November 11, 2017,…

In memoriam: Norman Dorsen (1930-2017) Founder of SALT, NYU School of Law Legend, Former General Counsel and President of the Board of the ACLU, Civil Liberties Giant, Social Justice Visionary, and Friend The Founding of SALT by Norman Dorsen, Michael Rooke-Ley, and Joyce Saltalamacchia 2008 SALT Tribute to Norman…

Why is it so easy for police to kill Black people? The answer to this question is urgent in light of ongoing police violence across the country. Virulent videos of Blacks subjected to police aggression have spread nationwide by phones, computers, TVs and tablets. These troubling, yet spectacular visuals, have…

By Professor Tanya K. Hernandez, Fordham University School of Law Monday, June 12, 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision which invalidated interracial marriage bans in the United States. Recently,…

“LSC plays a critical role in preserving our nation’s promise of equal justice under law and the effective functioning of our adversary system of justice.”   Please read and share widely SALT’s Statement in Support of Legal Services Corporation, which is set out below and available here.

By Madeleine Harnois and SSAC The pilot year of SSAC, the SALT Student Advisory Council, is coming to a close. It has been an exciting learning process as its members learned the ins and outs of SALT’s operations and administration and helped to get SSAC off the ground. Law students…

By Hugh Mundy, Associate Professor, The John Marshall Law School During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump relied on vague “tough on crime” rhetoric over policy specifics. Trump’s post-election selection of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, though, lends credence to his campaign trail exhortations. As the United States Attorney for the Southern…

On January 13, 2017, the United States Department of Justice released a report of its months-long investigation into allegations of officer misconduct, racially discriminatory policing, and accountability gaps within the Chicago Police Department. The report concluded that CPD officers routinely use unreasonable force against suspects due in part to the…

LWI and ALWD have chosen this day to launch a new campaign, the “Full Citizenship Project for All Law Faculty,” because of the professional status challenges that continue to plague skills-based and academic support law faculty, who are predominantly women.  They are inviting individual signatures endorsing the Full Citizenship Statement,…

SALT asks that you immediately contact your state’s ABA Delegates and other ABA delegates you may know to urge rejection of a proposal that will come before the ABA House of Delegates as Resolution 110B on Monday, February 6 (sample email below).  If you are in the Miami area, we…