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| | The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: The hopeless Association of American Law Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Complaints about the AALS are legion among law professors: the organization's relentless political correctness (without regard to the diversity of views among its members), its inability to stage real scholarly conferences, and its intrusive, and again largely politically motivated (when not cartel-motivated!), regulation of law schools. |
 | | On one important issue where the AALS might have made a difference--namely, the growing influence of the U.S. News law school rankings--the organization's response was to put its head in the sand and tell prospective students, incredibly, that they shouldn't look at law school rankings. |
 | | There are many law professors who are angry both about the exorbitant fees the AALS charges and who are also in my situation, i.e., only attending the conference because they were asked to speak. |
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