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Judith Areen, Executive Director of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), was the speaker for the annual James P. White Lecture on Legal Education. The lecture took place at IU McKinney on October 18.

Areen leads AALS, an association of 179 member schools that includes most of the nation’s law schools and produces the majority of the country’s lawyers and judges. She is on leave from her position as the Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she also has served as Executive Vice President for Law Affairs of Georgetown University and Dean of the Law Center. Professor Areen’s areas of academic expertise include higher education law and family law. The second edition of her casebook, Higher Education and the Law, written with Peter Lake, was published by Foundation Press in 2014.

A graduate of Cornell University and Yale Law School, Areen has worked in the private sector and in government at the local and federal levels. She is a member of the American Law Institute, and a director of the Pro Bono Institute. Areen has served as president of AALS, has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, and served as a governor of the District of Columbia Bar.

Professor White, for whom the lecture is named, retired in 2000 after 26 years as Consultant on Legal Education to the ABA; he continues to serve as Consultant Emeritus. The office is responsible for law school accreditation, collection of statistics, among other duties. He continues to represent the ABA in a number of international legal education activities. The ABA and friends established this annual endowed lecture on legal education at IU McKinney in his honor.

In the photo from left are Dean Andrew R. Klein, Judith Areen, and Professor James P. White.