Faculty Share Expertise, Receive Honors at AALS Annual Meeting

Over a dozen Brooklyn Law School faculty members presented or moderated panels at the 114th Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, Jan. 2-5, in Washington, D.C., where Professors Anita Bernstein and Susan Hazeldean were honored for exceptional work in their fields.

The theme of this year’s meeting, which drew thousands of law school faculty, deans, administrators, and scholars from around the country, was Pillars of Democracy: Law, Representation & Knowledge. The contingent of faculty from the Law School, led by Dean Michael Cahill, shared their expertise and discussed the latest developments in their respective areas of focus in legal education at sessions throughout the four-day meeting.

Bernstein was honored with the 2020 William L. Prosser Award by the Section on Torts and Compensation Systems, which recognizes “outstanding contributions of law teachers in scholarship, teaching, and service” related to torts and compensation systems. She is the second Brooklyn Law faculty member to receive this highly prestigious award, following Professor Aaron Twerski in 2016. Hazeldean, founder and director of the Law School’s LGBT Advocacy Clinic, was awarded the inaugural LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence Award from the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues.

Professor Bennett Capers was featured in three sessions: as a speaker on both the Technology and the Criminal Justice panels, and as moderator of the Policing Theory and Practice panel.

Panelists from the Law School also included:

Professor Dana Brakman Reiser – Speaker, Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law
Professor Neil B. Cohen – Speaker, Commercial and Consumer Law
Professor Maryellen Fullerton – Speaker, Immigration Law
Professor Andrew S. Gold – Commentator, Business Associations
Professor Susan Hazeldean – Speaker, Family and Juvenile Law
Professor Joy Kanwar – Speaker, Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Professor Catherine Y. Kim – Speaker, Federal Courts
Professor James A. Macleod – Moderator, Experimental Jurisprudence; and Presenter, Legislation & Law of the Political Process and Administrative Law Joint Program
Professor Alice G. Ristroph – Speaker, Criminal Justice
Professor Elizabeth M. Schneider – Speaker, Women in Legal Education
Professor Jocelyn Simonson – Speaker, Criminal Justice
Professor Janet Sinder – Moderator, Law Libraries and Legal Information
Professor Lawrence M. Solan – Moderator, Graduate Programs for Non-U.S. Lawyers
Professor Clayton Steele – Speaker, AALS Arc of Career Program

Other Brooklyn Law faculty attending the annual meeting included Professors Nick Allard, William Araiza, Robin Effron, and Cynthia Godsoe; Associate Dean Edward Janger; and Vice Dean Christina Mulligan.

See the full AALS Annual Meeting program here.