1/14/02-Boston College Law School Dean John H. Garvey will be the next chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section for the Law School Dean. At the annual meeting in New Orleans, Garvey was chosen chair-elect, and will assume full duties in January 2003.

Dean Garvey addressed the Dean’s Section at the January meeting with a talk on Strategic Planning, part of the larger program titled "What Is Success? Who Is Counting?" While in New Orleans he also gave a lecture to the National Association of Scholars called "The Growth of the Law."

The AALS, a non-profit association of 164 law schools, was founded in 1900 for "the improvement of the legal profession through legal education." It serves as the learned society for law teachers and is legal education's principal representative to the federal government and to other national higher education organizations and learned societies. The association’s national office is located in Washington, D.C.

AALS Sections are interest groups composed of members of the faculty and professional staff of AALS member schools. These sections present programs at the AALS Annual Meeting, provide newsletters for their membership, and conduct other activities of interest to their members, such as mentoring programs, exam exchanges, directories, and listservs.