For Immediate Release
January 9, 2006

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Elissa Free, (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Judith Areen, the Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law and former dean of Georgetown University Law Center, was installed as the new President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on January 6.

The AALS is a non-profit association of 166 law schools that is dedicated to improving the legal profession through legal education. It serves as legal education's principal representative to the federal government and to other national higher education organizations and educational societies.

Areen will be the third Georgetown Law faculty member to serve in this important one-year post. Carmack Waterhouse Professor Mark Tushnet was president in 2003 and Professor Emma Coleman Jordan in 1992.

Areen was dean of Georgetown Law for 15 years, from 1989 to 2004. Under her leadership, the Law Center added 49 new faculty members and more than tripled its financial aid endowment. Areen also led efforts to expand the campus to include a residence hall, a sport and fitness center, and a new international law building.  

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