The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Administrative Law is pleased to announce the “New Voices in Administrative Law” program for the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting, which will be held in January in San Francisco, CA. The New Voices program gives junior administrative law scholars an opportunity to receive useful feedback on their work from more senior reviewers before publication. We welcome submission of early-stage drafts and encourage eligible scholars to participate. As noted below, there will be time to revise submissions before they are circulated to commentators and posted as part of the panel.

Each participating junior scholar will be assigned two designated reviewers. The reviewers are senior administrative law scholars who will read the junior scholar’s paper in advance and offer constructive comments during the program. Anyone else who is interested in participating in one of the discussions is welcome to join. The New Voices program is scheduled from 2:40 until 4:10 pm Pacific time on Saturday, January 11, 2025.  

For Interested Junior Scholars

To participate, junior scholars must be full-time faculty members, including full-time visiting assistant professors or fellows, at AALS member schools. Papers that have been posted on scholarship networks such as SSRN, but not yet published, are eligible for consideration.

Please email Professor Glen Staszewski at staszew2@msu.edu by Friday, November 1, 2024, to be considered for participation in the program. In your email, please include the title of your paper and attach an abstract or working draft. Please also include in the email your school, tenure status, years in the position, any prior legal academic positions, and whether you have previously participated in the New Voices program.

If your paper is selected for participation in the program, you must submit a draft via email to the above address no later than Friday, December 6, 2024. This deadline is important to provide the designated reviewers ample time to read their assigned drafts before the program. The draft submitted does not need to be completely polished and ready for law-review submission; reviewers welcome papers in earlier stages when the author can most benefit from feedback about the project.

For Senior Scholars Interested in Serving as Reviewers

If you are interested in serving as a reviewer this year, please email Professor Anya Bernstein at anya.bernstein@uconn.edu as soon as possible.

For All Participants

Please be aware that selected participants and commentators must register for the AALS Annual Meeting and attend the conference in person. Please submit any questions about the New Voices program to Professor Glen Staszewski at staszew2@msu.edu.

Reminder: Nominations Due for the Emerging Scholar Award by Sept. 30, 2024

In January, the AALS Administrative Law Section recognized Todd Phillips as the recipient of its fourth annual Emerging Scholar Award. Nominations for this year’s award are due on September 30th. Self-nominations are welcome! Full-time faculty members without tenure at the time of the work’s publication, including those with fellowships, visiting assistant professorships, or similar positions, are eligible. To nominate someone, please send an anonymized version of their work to Professor Timothy Lytton at tlytton@gsu.eduby September 30, 2024. (Any reasonable effort to strip identifying information is fine.

Monographs should either be attached in PDF format with anonymization, or the nominator should provide links to six e-copies of the work). Any substantial scholarly work—whether a law review article, monograph, or chapter—published in final form between September 1, 2023, and August 31, 2024, is eligible. The work may be on any topic related to administrative law, although the award selection committee may favor work with greater general applicability. We will present the award at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in January. Please direct any questions to Professor Timothy Lytton via email at tlytton@gsu.edu.