Description: Committee Publications File contains reports, handouts, directories, and bibliographies compiled by AALS committees and special committees, including Commission on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities (ca. 1998), Committee on Bar Admissions and Lawyer Performance (2001), Committee on Curriculum (2006), Committee on Foreign Exchanges of Law Teachers and Students (ca. 1972), Committee on Guidelines for New Law Schools (1977), Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers (1996, 2004-05), Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and Students (ca. 2013-14, 2016, 2018), Committee on Teaching and Examination Methods (1950), Equal Justice Project Steering Committee (2002), Special Commission on Meeting the Challenges of Diversity in an Academic Democracy (1997), Special Committee on Copyright (1994), Special Committee on Law School Administration and University Relations (1961), Special Committee on Problems of Substance Abuse in the Law Schools (1993), Special Committee on Standards (ca. 1961), and Special Committee on the State of the Law School Deanship; series also includes The Validity of the U.S. News and World Report Ranking on ABA Law Schools (1998), which was a report commissioned by AALS, and lists of committees (2019-20).
Print copies are held for Foreign Exchanges of Law Teachers and Students, Guidelines for New Law Schools, Teaching and Examination Methods, Law School Administration and University Relations, Standards, and State of the Law School Deanship materials. Print as well as electronic PDF copies are held for Meeting the Challenges of Diversity in an Academic Democracy and Problems of Substance Abuse in the Law Schools materials. Electronic PDF copies are held for Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities, Bar Admissions and Lawyer Performance, Curriculum, Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers, Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and Students, Equal Justice Project, and Copyright materials, The Validity of the U.S. News and World Report Ranking on ABA Law Schools, and committee lists.