King Hall Faculty Appointed to AALS Section Committees
UC Davis School of Law Professors Lisa R. Pruitt, Thomas Joo, and Keith Aoki, along with Director of Academic Success Emily Randon, Associate Dean Vikram Amar, and Dean Kevin R. Johnson were appointed to Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section committees at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 6-10.
Dean Johnson was re-elected to the AALS Executive Committee of the Minority Groups Section and was was named by the AALS President as the Chair-Elect of the Committee on the Retention and Recruitment of Minority Law Teachers and Students. Professor Pruitt, who presented her paper, "Migration, Development, and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women," at the Annual Meeting, assumed the role of the Chair of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, the AALS's largest section with more than 1,700 members. Professor Joo was elected to serve on the AALS Executive Committee of the Section on Contracts, where he also served during 1999-2000. Professor Aoki was appointed to the AALS Membership Review Committee, and also serves on the Law School Site Visit Committee that is jointly sponsored by AALS and the American Bar Association. Emily Randon was elected to the Executive Board of the Section on Academic Support, and also to be the Program Chair for the 2011 AALS Conference in San Francisco. She acted as moderator for a panel discussion on "Transforming Learning in the Classroom." Associate Dean Amar was appointed as Chair of the Civil Procedure Section. Professor Diane Marie Amann, who presented at a panel on CIA interrogation policy and moderated two other panels in her capacity as 2009-10 Chair of the Section on International Law, continues to serve as a member of the Executive Committees for the Section on National Security Law and the Section on International Law.
Other King Hall faculty acting as speakers or moderators for panel discussions at the Annual Meeting included Senior Assistant Dean Hollis L. Kulwin and Professor Peter Lee. While in New Orleans, faculty and staff from UC Davis School of Law sponsored a preview screening of the film "Sowing the Seeds of Justice," a documentary by filmmaker Abby Ginzberg about the life of Professor Cruz Reynoso.