Call for Proposals: “The Arc of Your Career” Revisited
2017 Annual Meeting
January 3-7
San Francisco, California
Online submissions proposals due: March 30, 2016
After a first round of successful Arc of Career programs in New York, the AALS Task Force on Professional Development is again requesting proposals that address a broad spectrum of issues related to the professional careers of faculty and administrations for the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting to be held January 3-7, 2017, in San Francisco.
The AALS Task Force on Professional Development encourages Arc of Career proposals for creative and interactive sessions that may include (but are not limited to):
• Exploring alternative media, such as blogs, electronic postings, and social media, for projecting your intellectual voice
• Modes of engagement as a public intellectual
• Life stage theory and “editing” commitments
• Lateral moves
• Alternatives to traditional scholarship
• Public service
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Consulting, expert witness work, board appointments
• Retirement and other transitions
• Transitioning from academia: part-time teaching? Cold turkey? Other pursuits?
• Financial planning and budgeting
• Mindfulness, design thinking, and other ways of escaping the “law professor” mental box
Strong preference will be given to proposals that incorporate interactive experiences for the audience other than or in addition to Q and A. Preference will also be given to proposals:
• Submitted by collaborative groups spanning more than one law school;
• With an interdisciplinary element and/or suggestions of participants with perspectives from other disciplines. (Funds may be available for non-law school speakers);
• Reflecting diversity of schools and presenters (geographic, institutional rankings, race, gender, ideology, etc.)
Online submissions of Arc of Career Program proposals are due by March 30, 2016.
To view the complete Arc of Career request of proposal, click here: Call for Proposals
Click here for the online submission form: Submission Form
Questions may be directed to profdev@aals.org.
The AALS Task Force on Professional Development:
Bennett Capers, Brooklyn Law School
Susan D. Carle, American University Washington College of Law, Chair
Sheila R. Foster, Fordham University School of Law
Shauna I. Marshall, University of California Hastings College of Law
Elizabeth E. Mertz, University of Wisconsin Law School
Carol A. Needham, Saint Louis University School of Law
Jason Palmer, Stetson University, College of Law
Barbara A. Schatz, Columbia University School of Law
Michael E. Waterstone, Loyola Law School
