This panel discusses the numerous changes and challenges facing federal labor and employment agencies. Potential issues include executive orders' impact on the EEOC's priorities; the Supreme Court's pending ruling on the firing of political appointees with just-cause protection; constitutional challenges to the NLRB; and disruptions in the ability of the MSPB, FLRA, and Office of Special Counsel to enforce federal employee protections. The panel also explores how these changes and challenges may impact employers and employees.
This workshop gives faculty the opportunity to present a work-in-progress and to receive substantive feedback on their work from scholars with varying degrees of experience in the academy who write in similar or related fields. Each participant both submits their own work and reviews that of their fellow participants in advance of the meeting, leading to a more interactive exchange of ideas. Unlike other works-in-progress programs, the participants in this session are chosen from a request for submissions.
This workshop gives faculty the opportunity to present a work-in-progress and to receive substantive feedback on their work from scholars with varying degrees of experience in the academy who write in similar or related fields. Each participant both submits their own work and reviews that of their fellow participants in advance of the meeting, leading to a more interactive exchange of ideas. Unlike other works-in-progress programs, the participants in this session are chosen from a request for submissions.
This discussion group explores emerging trends and challenges in teaching legal research to first-year and upper-level law students. Participants examine strategies for integrating AI-powered research tools, developing new or revised courses aligned with evolving professional competencies, and preparing students for the research components of the NextGen Bar Exam. The session provides opportunities to share innovative teaching approaches, discuss assessment methods, and consider how legal research instruction can best support future-ready law graduates.
This is an ongoing working group, open to all interested parties, developing an update to the 2015 best practices and model recommendations. Online delivery is significantly different because online can be part of an existing course, a course that is part of a traditional curriculum, or an program operated under a variance. The participants will work on a forthcoming book project related to updating guidelines, recommendations, and good practices to help schools with their continuous improvement of online learning and pedagogy. This discussion is intended for anyone already working on the project or interested in joining this ongoing effort.
This discussion will focus on the Trump Administration's efforts to strip universities (and law schools, to the extent some have been swept up in those efforts) of federal funds for reasons ranging from failure to control antisemitic harassment on campus to efforts to seize control of university hiring, admissions, and education. It will focus on the (likely ongoing) litigation involving Harvard, as well as the many universities that have settled in ways that surrender control over how the university functions. This panel will explore issues of academic freedom for students, faculty, and the university as a whole.
This panel addresses issues related to legal mentoring. While many surveys of new lawyers show that they want mentors, little research has been conducted about best practices in legal mentoring. This panel joins legal scholars and actively practicing lawyers to discuss what good legal mentoring might entail, potential characteristics of good legal mentors, and what mentees gain from mentoring opportunities. The hope is that this discussion will lead to additional research and thinking on legal mentoring.
Employers have long used emerging technology to improve their businesses. Currently, these technologies, especially AI, are being used in numerous ways including screening and evaluating job applicants, monitoring work, tracking productivity, interacting with and managing workers, scheduling, and replacing human workers. This discussion group considers the impact of these technologies on the workplace and their interaction with current and possibly new labor and employment laws. We will also discuss how workers can shape the use of AI and other technologies, such as through unions.
This discussion group offers a forum for consumer law, commercial law, and bankruptcy scholars to workshop a work-in-progress or emerging idea for a future project. The scope of this discussion group encompasses any contract, consumer, commercial and/or bankruptcy law-related theme and is intentionally broad. Discussants briefly present an idea for an early-stage project (5-10 minutes) and receive feedback from other discussants._x000D_ _x000D_
Associate deans for faculty research discuss how they use innovative methods to promote faculty scholarship and raise the profiles of individual faculty members and their institutions. Discussants share ideas about ways they have introduced new programming, changed existing processes, implemented new incentive programs, maximized efficiency, encouraged and incorporated the use of AI into the development and promotion of faculty scholarship, and creatively problem-solved in their roles._x000D_
