There is a wonderful Open Source Program (a program competitively selected by the AALS Committee on Open Source Programs) at today’s AALS annual meeting at 10:30 a.m. at the Hilton (Gramercy B, Second Floor) on Implementing Scholarship:
- Suja A. Thomas, Moderator (Cincinnati)
- Gabriel Jackson Chin (Arizona)
- Paul C. Giannelli (Case Western)
- Harold Hongju Koh (Yale)
- Adam Liptak (New York Times)
- Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford)
Our scholarship can be influential. Most of us, though, do not promote the ideas about which we write beyond the academy. As a result, our ideas seldom reach the broader legal community where they might have additional impact. It is no surprise, then, that, as a New York Times headline put it last March, “When Rendering Decisions, Judges Are Finding Law Reviews Irrelevant.” This panel looks at how law review articles have influenced and can influence the law. We will discuss the importance of promoting the ideas about which we write, give examples of how this has been done, and seek to encourage scholars to use their scholarship to facilitate the implementation of their ideas. While scholarship is often generated from work on cases, this panel discusses the reverse: how ideas move beyond the academy.
