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Favorite Ready Reference Materials at the Law Library of Congress

There's a guest post we think you'll like at In Custodia Legis, the blog of the Law Library of Congress. Olivia Kane-Cruz writes about some favorite "Ready Reference Materials" at the LLOC, the world's largest law library. Have a look by clicking here.

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Kim Ricardo Named Interim Associate Dean at UIC

Professor Kim Ricardo of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law has been promoted to Interim Associate Dean of Experiential Education at UIC Law. Kim will continue to lead the UIC Lawyering Skills Program as its Director.

Kim is a Past President of the Legal Writing Institute.

Hat tip to Teri McMurtry-Chubb

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AALS Section on Global Engagement Outstanding Achievement Award Winner Announced

The Association of American Law Schools' Section on Global Engagement has announced that the 2023 Winner of its Outstanding Achievement Award is Professor David Austin of the California Western School of Law.

The Award will be presented to Professor Austin next month during the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego.

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AALS Comparative Law Section Announces Winner of 2023 Tushnet Prize

The Association of American Law Schools' Section on Comparative Law has announced that the winner of the 2023 Tushnet Prize is Professor Anna Conley of the University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law. She was recognized for her article, "Comparing Essential Components of Transnational Jurisdiction: A Proposed Comparative Methodology," which was published in the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law. Professor Conley's article is an updated and condensed version of her dissertation for her Doctor of Laws in Comparative Law from the McGill University Faculty of Law.

Professor Conley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Montana, where her areas of expertise include civil litigation, comparative law, international law, and human rights. She has a J.D. from the George Washington Law School, and an LL.M. and Doctor of Civil Laws (D.C.L.) from the McGill University Faculty of Law. She has litigated many large-scale complex cases, participated in several rule of law initiatives, and published extensively in international and comparative law. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Montana Department of Political Science teaching Constitutional Law, International Law and Comparative Law from 2017 to 2021. She also was an adjunct professor at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law teaching Global Perspectives on Law and Public International Law from 2007 to 2016.

The Tushnet Prize recognizes scholarly excellence in any subject of comparative law by an untenured scholar at an AALS Member School. The Prize is given to the author or authors of a scholarly article judged to have made an important contribution in the field of comparative law. For the 2023 award, this article must have been published in an academic journal between July 2021 and November 2022.

The Prize was awarded for the first time at the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting. All untenured scholars—including but not limited to tenure-track professors, visiting assistant professors, lecturers, academic fellows, doctoral candidates—are eligible.

The Tushnet Prize is named for Mark Tushnet, a former president of the Association of American Law Schools and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Professor Tushnet is an authoritative voice in constitutional law and theory. His scholarship spans all areas of public law, including comparative constitutional law, a field in which he has co-authored a leading casebook. A respected teacher, a devoted mentor, and an influential scholar, he retired from the Harvard faculty in June 2020.

Professor Conley joins this list of previous winners of the Tushnet Prize:

• Mark Jia (Harvard Law School) (2022)
• Pamela Bookman (Fordham University School of Law) (2021)
• Jorge Farinacci (Inter-American University of Puerto Rico School of Law) (2020)

The AALS Comparative Law Section Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. in the Marriott Grand Ballroom 12, Lobby Level, North Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel.

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AALS Law Libraries Section Award for Outstanding Service and Contributions

The Association of American Law Schools' Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information announced that the winner of its Section Award for Outstanding Service and Contributions to the Profession is Anne Klinefelter of the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Professor Klinefelter is Director of the Law Library and Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law at UNC School of Law. She teaches courses in privacy law and writes and speaks on information law and policy topics, particularly as these areas apply to libraries and legal information management. As Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies in Fall of 2019, she taught United States Privacy Law at the University of Helsinki and researched aspects of European Union data protection law. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of Privacy Forum. Her leadership in the law librarianship profession was recognized in 2019 with the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) section on Academic Law Libraries. In 2012 she received the AALL Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2012 for her work in privacy law and policy relating to libraries.

The AALS award will be presented to Professor Klinefelter next month at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego.

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AALS LWRR Section Award

The Association of American Law Schools' Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research announced that its 2023 Section Award Winner is Laura Graham of the Wake Forest University School of Law.

Laura Graham has been teaching Legal Analysis, Writing, & Research and Appellate Advocacy at Wake Forest since 1999. Her research and speaking interests center on how to maximize beginning law students' early success in legal writing. She is a regular contributor to various state and national bar journals, where she provides writing refreshers for practicing attorneys. Prior to joining the faculty, Laura served as judicial clerk for Judge Ralph Walker of the North Carolina Court of Appeals and was in private practice in Jacksonville, North Carolina, specializing in domestic law and appellate practice. 

The AALS Section Award will be presented next month at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego. Members of the AALS Section Award Committee were:

• Co-Chair – Michelle Zakarin, Touro              
• Co-Chair – Whitney Heard, Houston             
• Candace Centeno, Villanova                          
• DeLeith Duke Gossett, Texas Tech                
• Wendy-Adele Humphrey, Texas Tech           
• N.E. Millar, Widener                                      
• Myra Orlen, Western New England               
• Sara Ricks, Rutgers                                        
• Sandra Simpson, Gonzaga                              
• Kristen Tiscione, Georgetown                        
• Maureen Van Neste, Boston College             

Hat tip to AALS LWRR Section Chair Lori D. Johnson, UNLV

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