2024 SALT TEACHING CONFERENCE

The next year will mark momentous anniversaries for pivotal moments in social justice, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While we commemorate these achievements—which came about largely due to the resistance and civil disobedience of many, including lawyers, law professors, and students—2024 reminds us that the fight is not over.

We are in a profoundly dangerous and regressive moment for justice and democracy, not only in the United States, but around the world. Daily, we face the prospect that progress made over the last sixty years could be suddenly erased, along with the protections for those who engage in the struggle to preserve them—law professors and students alike.

The ramifications of this tension on higher education, including in law, is evident. With threats to academic freedom and the curtailment of voting, LGBTQ+, reproductive, and other rights, faculty, staff, and students confront challenges that require a renewed lens and collective efforts.

To frame these exigent opportunities and challenges, and to engage our community in how to continue the fight for transformative legal education in the face of these challenges, the Society of American Law Teachers invites you to participate in our 2024 Teaching Conference.

Just as Fannie Lou Hamer would not back down from injustice in her fight for equality and civil rights, we cannot, and will not, back down in our fight to transform legal education.

Scholarships available, learn more.

The LatCrit/SALT Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop (FDW) will take place on Thursday, September 19, 2024, immediately preceding the SALT Teaching Conference. The FDW is designed for critical, progressive, and social justice oriented pre-tenure professors, including clinicians and legal writing professors, as well as those who may be contemplating a law teaching career. The FDW is designed to familiarize junior faculty with LatCrit and SALT principles and values and support them in the scholarship, teaching, and service aspects of professional success.