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Pictured, 2015 Award winner Justin Hansford. The Society of American Law Teachers seeks nominations for the Junior Faculty Teaching Award, to be given in 2016 during the SALT Teaching Conference in Chicago on September 30-October 1. The award recognizes an outstanding recent entrant (seven years or fewer) into legal education who demonstrates a commitment…

PARC is pleased to announce its seventh annual Faculty Development Seminar (FDS). This 12-day intensive travel seminar is for U.S. faculty members with a demonstrated interest in, but little travel experience to, Palestine. Professor from all fields of study are encouraged to apply. Applications are due January 11, 2016. For more details about…

SALT Equalizer December 2015

Villanova Law School will co-host a pipeline conference with The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) on Friday, November 13, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. The conference will include thought-provoking discussions with lawyers and advocates on the obstacles that marginalized communities face in accessing and…

SALT proudly announces that Professor Justin Hansford is the 2015 Junior Faculty Teaching Award Winner.  The award recognizes an outstanding recent entrant into legal education who demonstrates a commitment to justice, equality and academic excellence. It is designed to honor an emerging teacher and support an outstanding individual…

The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) joins others in condemning the murders of nine African Americans at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and the series of church burnings in the region. But condemnation is not enough. We must use these tragic incidents to prompt and…

SALT mourns the loss of Professor F. Dennis Greene of the University of Dayton School of Law, at the age of 66.    Professor Greene was a SALT Board member from 1999 to 2001 and a founding member of the popular music group Sha Na Na.   Greene, who taught…

The Council of the ABA’s Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar met in Chicago July 31 to consider among other items the proposed deletion of Interpretation 305-2, which prohibits law schools granting credit for paid externships. Along with other organizations such as the Clinical Legal Education (CLEA),…

  Professor Susan Bryant CUNY School of Law Professor Jean Koh Peters Yale Law School Sherrilyn Ifill NAACP LDF and Maryland Law At its upcoming Annual Dinner to be held on January 8, 2016 in New York City, SALT will honor three champions of its mission of justice, diversity and…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice.  On August 7, it bent a little more that way with the monumental passage of the American Psychological Association Resolution banning…

SALT is proud to announce the following Co-Presidents Elect and Nominees to the Board of Governors.   The Nominees will be presented as a slate at the Members’ Meeting on Friday October 2, 2015 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Anaheim, CA.  …

The Nominations Committee is currently soliciting nominations for current SALT members to 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 the policy of SALT designed to fulfill SALT’s basic mission – of making the legal profession more inclusive…

By Benjamin G Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law According to the below article a certain Matthew Waxman is being bruited for the General Counsel job at the NSA. http://www.lawfareblog.com/2015/05/matthew-waxman-to-be-the-new-nsa-general-counsel/ His Columbia Law School bio is more circumspect about his prior government service then the…

March 25, 2015 — The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) today released a statement regarding recent actions of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors to close three centers in the university system, including the Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the UNC School of Law.  In…

The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and the Southeast-Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference are proud to present Breaking in, Staying In: At Every Level, Thursday March 19, 2015, at North Carolina Central University School of Law.

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law Much ado has arisen in recent months about the investor-state dispute settlement provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership international trade agreements being negotiated. Sources one might look to are http://isdsblog.com/,…

Poverty Law: Academic Activism Seattle University School of Law Feb. 19-20, 2016 Call for Proposals: We invite proposals for presentations at a Spring 2016 conference, “Poverty Law: Academic Activism” to be held on Feb. 19-20, 2016, hosted by Seattle University School of Law.  The conference will focus on the…

  By SpearIt Last week, the Supreme Court struck down an Arkansas prison policy that restricted inmates from sporting a half-inch beard.  The prisoner-plaintiff, Gregory Holt, aka Abdul Maalik Muhammad, is particularly interesting since he confounds cultural stereotypes, looking more like someone from Duck Dynasty or the movie Deliverance than…

By SpearIt Last month the Department of Education clarified the eligibility rules for Federal Pell Grant funding. Although Congress barred Pell Grants in 1994 for those confined in “Federal or State Penal institutions,” according to the clarification, these are distinct from “juvenile justice facilities” and “local and…