Law Professors and AALS Duke It Out Over Annual Meeting

As the Association of American Law Schools develops the speaker lineup for its 2016 annual conference, some conservative law professors are crying “bias.”

Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown, complained on Saturday in a blog post on The Volokh Conspiracy that 11 of the conference’s 13 “speakers of note” are associated with the Democratic Party, and not a single one is a conservative or a libertarian.

The numbers highlight the AALS’s “rigid liberal orthodoxy,” according to Rosenkranz, who wrote a law review article in 2014 that criticized the legal academy for a lack of intellectual diversity.

In response to his complaint, the AALS updated ...