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Year

President

Program Chair

Location

Comments

1914

Chicago, IL

The professors teaching law in business schools are meeting with law school professors at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) meetings.  

Nathan Isaacs, Lincoln Frederick Schaub, Alfred W. Bays and Herman Oliphaut begin discussing differences in role and approach.

1923

William Britton presents a paper on “Teaching of Law in Schools of Business” at the AALS meeting.

1924

James C. Reed

Univ of Pittsburg

Chicago, IL

At the AALS, Association of Instructors of Law in Collegiate Schools of Business breaks off for a separate meeting at the LaSalle Hotel, in part because many Schools of Law professors were “condescending in respect to those of us who taught business law.”

1925

No meeting

Only one member (Karl McGinnis) of the business law group attended the AALS meeting.

1926-29

James C. Reed

Chicago, IL

LaSalle Hotel; changed name to Association of Teachers of Law in Collegiate Schools of Business in 1926 and 1928 was the last meeting with the AALS.

1926

James C. Reed

Chicago, IL

Dec. 30; LaSalle Hotel; professors begin discussing use of cases in addition to textbooks in classes.

1927

James C. Reed

Washington, DC

Dec. 29; Washington Hotel

1928

James C. Reed

Chicago, IL

Dec. 28; Hotel Stevens

1929

James C. Reed

Washington, DC

Dec. 27-28; Washington Hotel

1930 

Charles N. Hulvey

Univ of Virginia

Cleveland, OH

Hotel Cleveland

1931

Alfred W. Bays

Northwestern Univ

Washington, DC

Dec 28-29; Hotel Raleigh; one of the principal objectives of business law in the 1930s was to prepare accountants for the CPA exam.

1932-33

Earl S. Wolaver

Univ of Michigan

Cincinnati, OH

Dec. 29; Hotel Sinton

1933

Earl S. Wolaver

Philadelphia, PA

Dec. 27; Benjamin Franklin Hotel

1934

Carl J. Altmaier

Drexel Univ

Chicago, IL

Dec. 28; Palmer House; dinner with American Statistical Association.

1935

Miles H. Jones

Univ of Pittsburgh

New York, NY

Dec. 27; Commodore Hotel

1936

Miles H. Jones

Chicago, IL

Dec. 27; Stevens Hotel; membership less than 50 in the 1930s.

1937

Sheldon C. Tanner

Penn State Univ

Atlantic City, NJ

Dec. 28-29; Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel; name changed to American Business Law Association.

1938

John C. Teevan

Northwestern Univ

Detroit, MI

Hotel Statler; officers were charged with drafting a constitution and bylaws.

1939

Thomas S. Kerr

Univ of Idaho

Philadelphia, PA

Dec 28-29; Bellevue-Statford Hotel

1940

Harold F. Lusk

Indiana Univ, Bloomington

Chicago, IL

Dec 27-28; Stevens Hotel; papers had been published by West’s American Law School Review and unsuccessful attempt to establish a separate business law journal.

1941

S. Homer Smith

Temple Univ

New York, NY

Dec 29-30; Hotel Roosevelt

1942-46

No Meeting

No meetings during World War II.

1947

Essel R. Dillavou

Univ of Illinois

Chicago, IL

Dec 30; Allerton Hotel,

1948

Gerald O. Dykstra

Ohio Univ

Cleveland, OH

Dec. 28-29; Statler Hotel

1949

Robert E. Stone

Syracuse Univ

NY, NY

Association of the Bar of the City of NY; 208 members’ listed, but 103 current with dues.

1950

Lewis F. Mayers

City College of New York

Chicago, IL

Dec. 27-29; Sheraton Hotel

1951

No Meeting

1952

John F. Sembower

Northwestern Univ

Chicago, IL

Dec. 28-30; The Morrison Hotel; liaison to AACSB appointed.

1953

Paul C. Roberts

Univ of Illinois

Washington, DC

Dec 27-29; Lafayette Hotel; dues $3.

1954

Edward A. Smith

Syracuse Univ

Detroit, MI

Dec. 27-29; Park Shelton Hotel 

1955

Joseph L. Frascona

Univ of Colorado

Univ of Colorado, Boulder

Sept. 7-9;  Regional ALSB affiliates emerge - Southern, Tri-State (1956), Midwest (1958), NE (1960), Pacific SW (1962), Middle Atlantic (1962), South Atlantic (1964), North Atlantic (1966).

1956

Milton B. Dickerson

Michigan State Univ

Syracuse Univ,
 Saranac Lake, NY

Aug. 28-30; Pinebrook Lodge; The Bulletin of the American Business Law Association was mimeographed with Professor Neil Gilliam and financial support of the University of Washington.

1957

Wesley C. Harter

Florida State Univ

Asheville, NC

Aug. 27-29; George Vanderbilt Hotel; Joseph Franscona addresses ABLA, sparking debate over title and content of law-based courses in business schools.

1958

Cornelius W. Gilliam

Univ of Washington

Univ of Wisconsin, Madison

Aug 19-21

1959

Harry M. Schuck

Univ of Wisconsin

Univ of Utah, 
Salt  Lake City

Aug 25-27

Gordon & Howell’s Ford Foundation report on Higher Education for Business recommends replacing traditional contract focus business law course with “legal framework of business,” where “legal environment forms the basis for rules of conduct among businessmen;”  

Pierson Report focuses on how society pursues varied purposes through law, private law v public law (1959).

1960

William Zelermyer

Syracuse Univ

Univ of Vermont, Burlington

Aug. 23-25; 100 attendees for first time.

1961

Hendrik Swarensteyn

Michigan State Univ

Miami Beach, FL

Aug. 22-24; Barcelona Hotel

1962

John L. Wyatt

Univ of Florida

Indiana Univ,

 Bloomington

Aug. 26-28, American Business Law Journal (ABLJ) is authorized with Charlie Hewitt (Indiana Univ) as the first Editor-in-Chief.

1963

Dwayne L. Oglesby

Louisiana Tech Univ

Univ of Nevada, 
Reno

Aug 20-22; 11^th regional organization is chartered; first ABLA House of Delegates meeting with regional representatives; LLB endorsed as terminal law degree; the first The Legal Environment of Business textbook by Robert N. Corley and Robert L. Black.

1964

Kathryn H. Duffy

Univ of Nevada

C.W. Post College, Greenvale, Long Island, NY

Aug. 23-26; First female president.

1965

William J. Robert

Univ of Oregon

Atlanta, GA

Aug. 22-25; American Motor Hotel

1966

Charles Martin

City Univ of New York

Bowling Green State Univ, Ohio

Aug. 21-24

1967

Dugald W. Hudson

Georgia State Univ

Oregon State – Corvallis or Univ of Oregon - Eugene

Aug. 20-23; ABLJ is indexed in the Legal Periodicals Index and Commerce Clearing House Topical Index, announces ABLJ Editor Edwin Tucker (University of Connecticut).

ABLA endorses ABA position that JD replace LLB as terminal law degree, though AACSB still considers LLB as appropriate degree, but neither count toward percentage of  “doctorate” faculty for AACSB.

1968

Russell Decker

Bowling Green State Univ

Univ of Connecticut, Hartford

Aug. 18-21; Hartford Hilton Hotel

1969

John R. Carrell

North Texas State Univ

S. Methodist University,

Dallas, TX

Aug. 17-20; Gaylord A Jentz becomes ABLJ Editor-in-Chief, assisted by editorial board of John Donnell and Edwin W. Tucker; Dwayne Oslesby continues as business manager.

AACSB requires “common body of knowledge” to include “a background of the economic and legal environment of business enterprise along with consideration of the social and political influences on business”;  most schools offer 4 business law courses and require one or two.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

1970

Gary I. Salzman

Univ of Miami

Colorado State Univ,

Fort Collins

Aug. 23-26; there is great variation on how JD is treated (bachelors, masters v. doctorate), with some universities requiring JD plus an LLM or MBA. 

1971

Edwin Kassoff

Pace Univ

Barbara Crutchfield George

Cal St Univ, Long Beach and Honolulu, Hawaii,

Aug. 22-25, Long Beach, Cal. State campus then Aug. 27 Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu; about 35 attendees; forerunner discussions of a liberal arts & law at a 1954 Harvard Law School meeting.

John Bonsignore recommends a shift from business law to legal studies departments, but his motion to change the name of the ABLA (to delete the word business) was soundly defeated in 1971.

1972

Gaylord A. Jentz

Univ of Texas, Austin

Thomas Wynn

DePaul Univ,

Chicago, IL

Push for recognition of the JD as the appropriate doctorate:  The Dunfee Committee examines JD versus other qualifications for teaching law courses.

1973

Thomas J. Wynn

DePaul Univ

Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville

Treasury: $12,500; Exec. Sec. is Dwayne L. Oglesby.

1974

Barbara George

California State Univ, Long Beach

Bentley Univ, 
Waltham, MA

50^th Anniversary of ABLA; 174 attendees; over 600 members.

1975

Phillip J. Scaletta, Jr.

Purdue Univ

Univ of Nevada, Reno

1976

Charles M. Hewitt

Indiana Univ, Bloomington

Michigan State Univ, 
East Lansing, MI

The collective babysitter arrangement had not yet been developed; Mary Jane Dundas remembers Barbara George’s 2-year-old son sprinkling talcum powder throughout the room while parents were at the banquet; Hewitt was one of the early authors of a business law text.

1977

Jordan B. Ray

Univ of Florida

Miami, FL with continuation to Bahamas

Fontainebleau Hotel (Miami) was in receivership; folks with clipboards were walking around.

1978

Edwin W. Tucker

Univ of Connecticut

Mike Litka 

Univ of Maryland

Hot dog rationing at reception.

1979

Terry L. Lantry

Colorado State Univ

Gerard Halpern

Hot Springs, AR

With banquet dance band music, Kay Duffy wanted to dance with “all of the men.”  There was a large wooden gun cabinet as a “door prize.” 

1980

Michael P. Litka

Univ of Akron

Bill Elliott

San Francisco, CA

Jack Tar Hotel (later became Cathedral Hotel and was later a hospital); there was a citywide hotel workers strike; Tommy’s Joint buffalo burgers next door.

1981

Gerard Halpern

Univ of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Robert Corley

Sarasota, FL

Stormy weather.

1981

G. Gale Roberson

Northwestern Univ  (Honorary)

Respected, elderly author of Smith & Roberson text  (when there were few business law texts)

Roberson hosted the “Wig & Melon Society” at several meetings, with Catawba melons shipped in for the occasion, recalls Barbara George.

1982

William G. Elliot

Saginaw Valley State Univ

John Donnell 

Louisville, KY

Galt House hotel meeting; riverboat cruise; Jan Henkel is Executive Secretary.

Journal of Legal Studies Education (JLSE) evolved from a pedagogical panel session, in which presenters were invited by John Donnell to write for the first issue; subsequent issues were to be refereed, with Terry Dworkin (Indiana Univ) as 1^steditor-in-chief 1983.

1983

Robert N. Corley

Univ of Georgia

Paul Lange 

Boston, MA

Hyatt Cambridge; clam/lobster bake.

1984

John D. Donnell

Indiana Univ, Bloomington

Bruce Fisher

San Antonio, TX

Hilton

1985

Paul M. Lange

California State University, Fresno

Pat Pattison 

Portland, OR

Marriot Hotel; live music for after dinner dancing; Harvey Boller mugged in phone booth.

1986

Bruce D. Fisher

Univ of Tennessee

Frank Gibson

Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis Plaza Hotel

1987

Patricia Pattison

Univ of Wyoming

Robert Jespersen

Philadelphia, PA

Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel; Anniversary of 1787 U.S. Constitution - visited related sites; CLE credit for program sessions initiated.

1988

Frank F. Gibson

Ohio State Univ

Tom Dunfee 

New Orleans, LA

Omni Royal Orleans Hotel; room rate $75 plus tax=$91.16; Dues $25; registration $75; river cruise social event; Peak membership of 1081 (1988-89).

1989

Robert R. Jespersen

Univ of Arkansas, Little Rock

Bill Shaw

Los Angeles & Honolulu, Hawaii
(split meeting)

Hawaiian Regent at Waikiki Beach; room rates exceed $100 for first time in Honolulu; a member sends fresh pineapples to his lady friends; Bill Shaw with friends Art Wolfe, John Bonsignore, Lee Reed, Peter Shears and  Keith, from the UK, plus the Syracuse gang. 

1990

Thomas W. Dunfee

Univ of Pennsylvania

Brenda Knowles

Toronto, CA

Royal York Hotel; final conference without shared planning by Program Chair & EC; banquet agenda programs added; initiated teaching session (forerunner to the Charles Hewitt Master Teacher Symposium which started awarding Master Teacher Award in 1994); Women’s Tea formally part of program (informal in 1980s); initiative encouraging Canadian colleagues’ participation.

Dan Herron (Univ of North Carolina, later Miami Univ in Ohio) selected as Executive Secretary (EC) of ABLA, replacing Bill Elliott (Saginaw Valley State Univ).

EC & Committees examine “Status of Law Faculty in Business Schools,” adopts Research Committee Report, and internationalization of Business Law Curriculum & research & encouragement of affiliations with international Assoc of Law Teachers (UK).

By 1990 the AACSB required inclusion of “legal and regulatory” study or the “legal environment of business” in the “common body of knowledge” in colleges of business, with ALSB lobby (by Gay Jentz and EC) for the amendment adding the word “legal,” which also helped  the JD become more accepted as a terminal doctorate.

1991

Bill Shaw

Univ of Texas, Austin

Lee Reed

Portland, Maine

Split between 3 hotels (Portland Sonesta Hotel main hotel, $90); largest attendance 320;  lobster bake; Hurricane Bob chased us inland as we were leaving; Master Teacher Symposium formally becomes part of conference program.

The American Business Law Association (ABLA) votes to change its name to the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB); Membership 1034.

1992

Brenda Knowles

Indiana Univ, South Bend

Marsha Hass

Charleston, SC

Charleston Place Hotel; humidity, but hospitality; Carriage ride to the Past Presidents’ dinner; cocktail tour (walking or by bus) of the College of Charleston campus ending in the historic main building; battleship tour, Membership 944.

JLSE articles – John Allison on legal scholarship and role of law in business curriculum; George Siedel & Tom Dunfee on law review scholarship; Membership 1011.

1993

O. Lee Reed

Univ of Georgia

Don Nelson

Colorado Springs, CO

Aug. 17-21; Antlers Doubletree or Hilton Hotel;  there was dancing & singing at the Presidential suite reception and one former president even demonstrated cheerleading; train converted to restaurant; Flying Chuckwagon social; trips to NORAD, U.S. Air Force.

Membership 1030; median AACSB salary $61,400 (full professor at public accredited).

1994

Marsha E. Hass

College of Charleston

Rick Coffinberger

Dallas, TX

Aug. 9-13; Fairmont Hotel; joint meeting with Society of Business Ethics and the Academy of Management;  Dallas Museum of Art mixer with SBE; workshops:  ethics, conflict mediation & negotiation, statistical methods in legal research; session with women in Management section of Academy of Management & ALSB Feminist Legal Studies Section; unbearably hot; dancing at Studebakers; Gay Jentz honored (retiring from AACSB liaison), with Tom Duffee assuming that role); Steve Salbu (U Texas-Austin) - Distinguished Junior Faculty Award; Membership 985.

ALSBNEWS and ALSBTALK established as e-mail list-serve for communication with members.

1995

Donald R. Nelson

Univ of Denver

Fran Hill

Milwaukee, WI

Pfister Hotel, $93;  best banquet – waiters at Bill Sturm’s Woodmore Country Club served each table in unison; meal at German restaurant; Lee Read –Distinguished Senior Faculty Award (Univ of Georgia).

Membership 980; expanded liaisons to AACSB/ACBSP, AICPA, ABA; Strategic Plan adopted.

Sections include environmental law, international, employment-labor law, ethics, feminist legal studies and proposed marketing law; Ernie King as proceedings editor (for many years).

1996

Richard L. Coffinberger

George Mason Univ

Caryn Beck-Dudley

Quebec City, CA,

Aug. 6 pre-meeting  at Montreal Hilton-Bonaventure Hotel with dinner train ride from Montreal to Quebec; Aug. 6-12; Hilton in Quebec; St. Lawrence River dinner cruise; visit Parliament building; great meeting; critical thinking workshop with Nancy Kubasek & Neil Browne, added to Teaching and Research Symposia; poster session.

Dan Ostas – Distinguished Junior Faculty Award (Univ of Maryland).

Membership 960; proposal for mail-in ballots to vote for officers failed; office of 2^nd vice president eliminated; EC to be composed of 9 members (5 of which have voting status).

1997

Frances J. Hill

Univ of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Peter Shedd

Atlanta, GA

Aug. 13-16; JW Marriot in Buckhead connected to Lenox Mall; 1^st online registration; UPS strike necessitates prior day local reorder of programs and David Hill rescuing programs through a picket line; walking to civil rights sites; computer workshops at Georgia State Univ, including web homepage instruction; dinner at Georgia Depot; panel on teaching executive education courses; membership 854; dues increased to $60; Life membership category added.

Women’s luncheon eliminated, replaced with “women’s coffee & dessert” next year, and evolved to tea/dessert,

Distinguished faculty awards to Bill Shaw (UT) (Senior) and Dana Muir (Univ Michigan) (Junior).

First year for Univ of Florida’s Hurst Seminar.

Median AACSB Business Law salary for professor at public accredited university was $68,900.

1998

Caryn L. Beck-Dudley

Utah State Univ

Sally Gunz

San Diego, CA

Aug. 19-22; Event Hotel del Coronado, Windsor Cottage; visit to Univ of San Diego – to learn about PowerPoint (rather new then) and international workshop.

Great weather – BBQ by Pacific Ocean At Hotel del Coronado); Tijuana trip; plenary speaker Hon. Kim Campbell, 19^th Prime Minister of Canada.

Student paper submissions for the first time (Nancy Kubasek); Tim Fort (Univ of Michigan) - Junior Faculty Award; Brenda Knowles (Univ of Indiana, South Bend - Senior Faculty Award; Caryn Beck-Dudley (Utah St. Univ) - Kay Duffy Service Award.

CPA exam starts testing LLC, LLP, computer technology rights within traditional categories

1999

Peter J. Shedd

Univ of Georgia

Frank Cross

St. Louis, MO

Aug. 4-1; Adams Mark Hotel had a racquetball court; across from Dred Scott court location; Did your faucets leak?; riverboat dinner cruise or Cardinal baseball game; Fran Zollers (Syracuse Univ) - Senior Faculty Award; Joan Gabel (Georgia State Univ) - Junior Faculty Award; Peter Shedd (Univ of Georgia) - Kay Duffy Award.

2000

Sally Gunz

Univ of Waterloo, Canada

– No officer chaired – group effort, coordinated by Ohio Univ, Art Marinelli, Mary Keifer & Exec. Sec. Dan Herron

Baltimore, MD

Aug 8-12; Hilton Hotel & Towers near Inner Harbor, visit aquarium; visit Naval Academy in Annapolis;  Deb Ballam  (Ohio State Univ) - ,Distinguished Senior Faculty Award;  Martin McCrory (Indiana Univ) - Junior Faculty Award; Marsha Hass (College of Charleston) - Kay Duffy Award.

Sally Gunz is first non-US (Canadian) ALSB President; transition combining of EC offices of Program Chair & President.-Elect resulted in this year without an EC officer in charge of program; membership voted in 1996 to make this change.

2001

Frank Cross

Univ of Texas

Ginny Maurer

Albuquerque, NM

Aug. 7-11; Hilton; dinner on Sandia Mountain at sunset , with tram ride; side trip to Santa Fe with dinner at the old La Fonda Hotel; visit to a Acoma Pueblo (Sky City) Indian reservation and session on Indian law;  zoo day trip and Albuquerque’s Old Town alternatives;’ Gerald Ferrera (Bentley College) - Distinguished Senior Faculty Award, Bruce Zucker (Cal  State-Northridge) - Junior Faculty Award; Sally Gunz (Univ of Waterloo) - Kay Duffe Award; plenary speaker: John Kraft (AACSB president).

2002

Virginia Maurer

Univ of Florida

Jim Highsmith

Las Vegas, NV

July 27-31 (Sat.-Wed); Four Seasons Hotel; great service & views; Blue Man Group and ‘O’Twice; t-shirt exchange (your university’s t-shirt); workshops: Master Teacher Symposium, Critical Thinking and Technology (John Bagby); Art Marinelli (Ohio Univ) - Distinguished Senior Faculty Award; Lucien Dhooge (Univ of the Pacific) - Junior Faculty Award; Sandy Searleman (Adirondack Com. College) - Kay Duffy Service Award; Westlaw campus negotiated access.

2003

James Highsmith

California State Univ, Fresno

Nancy Kubasek

Nashville, TN

Aug. 12-16 (Tues-Sat); Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel, $120-150; progressive dinner to Southern mansions; gallery of winning race horses; Vanderbilt Univ visit; Andrew Jackson Heritage Museum; teaching idea bank; Steve Salbu (Univ of Texas) - Senior Faculty Award; Robert (Seton Hall Univ) - Junior Faculty Award; plenary speaker: James Neal (prosecutor of J Hoffa and Watergate), defender of Exxon in Valdez oil spill, Ford – Pinto case).

Reorganization of CPA exam, decreased law coverage (see ALSB Newsletter for details).

2004

Nancy Kubasek

Bowling Green State Univ

Terry Dworkin

Ottawa, CA

Aug. 17-21 (Tues-Sat); Westin City Center Hotel; visited Parliament and Supreme Court buildings; Museum of Civilization dinner in Grand Hall.

George Cameron (Univ of Michigan) - Distinguished Senior Faculty Award; Ann Morales Olazabal (Univ of Miami, Coral Fables, Florida) - Junior Faculty Award; Ray August (international scholar died right after conference); plenary speaker: Paul Heinbecker (for Canadian ambassador to UN) speaks on U.S. – Canadian relations.

Blackwell to publish ABLJ and JLSE; AACSB questions JD as research degree, ALSB responds and JD is restored to Category 1 qualified doctoral degree; law was still included in the “assurance of learning standards.”  

2005

Terry M. Dworkin

Indiana Univ, Bloomington

Fran Zollers

San Francisco, CA

Aug. 3-6; Westin airport hotel; Barbara George was honored at the ice-breaker cocktail party; technology theme; case writing workshop; Gay & Joanne Jentz celebrated their 50^thanniversary at the banquet; SF Giants baseball game outing; choice of dinner at Sausalito, Chinatown or Union Square; Stephanie Greene (Boston College) - Junior Faculty Award; Joan Gabel (Georgia State Univ) and Lucien Dhooge (Univ of the Pacific) - Kay Duffy Service Awards; plenary speaker:  Larry Sonsini (Silicon Valley law firm).

2006

Frances E. Zollers

Syracuse Univ

Lynda Oswald

St. Petersburg, FL

Aug. 8-12; Renaissance Vinoy Resort - best swimming pool, Spanish architecture; dolphins nearby; Steton Law School reception honoring Ginny Maurer; ABLJ research workshop; case-writing workshop; ethics workshop; beach party buffet at Don Cesar Beach Resort; plenary speaker: Jerry Trapnell, AACSB Accreditation Officer; plenary speaker:  Florida State Dean Caryn Beck-Dudley spoke at banquet.

Co-recipients of Distinguished Senior Faculty Awards:  Peter Shedd (Univ of Georgia) and Constance Bagley (Harvard Univ); Ernie King (Univ S. Mississippi) - Kay Duffy Award

Shelly Whitmer becomes ALSB Administrative Assistant.

2007

Lynda J. Oswald

Univ of Michigan

Bob Bennett

Indianapolis, IN

Aug 11-14 (Sat.-Tues); Radisson/Sheraton Hotel; hotel contract/dates had to be renegotiated when ownership changed and motor race conflicted;  heard appellate court case oral arguments (Judge Paul Mathias); Indianapolis Museum of Art; baseball viewing option; plenary speaker: Steve Salbu; “Innocent Man” author Ron Williamson spoke.

Ginny Maurer – AACSB liaison, Megan Mowrey - AICPA liaison; Senior Distinguished Faculty Award to Dan Cahoy (Penn State Univ) and  Junior Distinguished Faculty Award to Leigh Anenson (Univ of Maryland).

2008

Robert B. Bennett, Jr.

Butler Univ

Kathleen Lacey

Long Beach, CA

Aug. 12-16; Westin Hotel; ocean port harbor tour; Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific reception; Queen Mary past-presidents’ dinner.; cocktail parties honor Fran Zollers and Lucien Dhooge; case writing workshop; plenary speaker:  King Alexander (President of Cal State Univ).

Terry Dworkin (Indiana Univ) - Senior Faculty Award of Excellence; David Hess (Univ of Michigan) - Early Career Achievement Award; Lynda Oswald (Univ of Michigan) - Kay Duffy Award.

2009

Kathleen Lacey

California State Univ, Long Beach

Lucien Dhooge

Denver, CO

Aug. 4-8; Marriott Denver City Center Hotel; Denver Art Museum; pub crawl; Brown Palace women’s tea;  panel on Judge Sotomayor’s opinions; Capitol Grille Past Pres.; Plenary lunch: Atty. Cliff Stricklin (securities fraud). 

Tribute to Tom Duffee (who died this year).

Tribute to Dan Herron (20^th year as ALSB Executive Secretary).

2010

Lucien J. Dhooge

Georgia Institute of Technology

Janine Hiller

Richmond, VA

Aug. 3-7 (Tues-Sat); Jefferson Hotel; beautiful, dip toes in alligator’s mouth; 1776 St. John’s Episcopal Church - reenactment of Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech; Lucien dressed as participant; VA capitol dinner; Williamsburg heat.

Scholarship to honor Gay Jentz; plenary speaker:  David Baugh (civil rights attorney); Richard Cohen (S. Poverty Law Center) speaker; Gaylord Jentz (Univ of Texas) (deceased) and Virginia Maurer (Univ of Florida) - Kay Duffy Awards; Corey Ciocchetti (Univ of Denver) -  Junior Faculty Award.

Legal scholarship EC position paper; ALSB Chief Accounting Officer (new) position - Linda Christiansen (Indiana Univ-SE).

2011

Janine Hiller

Virginia Tech

Connie Bagley

New Orleans, LA

Aug. 9-13; Roosevelt Hotel; Tulane reception; zoo; empirical workshop; plenary speaker: Sharon Pratt, former Mayor of the DC and President of Opportunity Funding Corporation; Patricia Sanchez Abril (Univ of Miami, Florida) - Junior Faculty Award; Papers on thumb drive; Environment & sustainability section visits Grand Isle coast to study hurricane & oil spill remediation with Dean Moosavi.

2012

Constance E. Bagley

Yale Univ

Carol Miller

Kansas City, MO

Aug. 7-11; Intercontinental Hotel at the KC Plaza;  Truman Pres. Library; Nelson-Atkins Art Museum; Gates BBQ at Am. Jazz & Negro Baseball League museums; Board of Trade; Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship; American Restaurant – Past Pres.; 1^st time for ALSB tee-shirts & Cherry Pepsi; Proceedings award to honor Ernie King; each section had a speaker; Plenary speaker:  Hon. Mo. Supreme Court Justice Laura Stith; Mike Bixby (Boise State Univ) - Distinguished Career Award (formerly Distinguished Senior Faculty Award); Norm Bishara (Univ of Michigan) - Early Career Award.

New ALSB strategic plan finalized in Spring 2012; last paper programs for everyone - IPhone link to meeting schedule.

2013

Carol J. Miller

Missouri State Univ

Robert Thomas

Boston, MA

Aug. 6-10; Fairmont Copley Hotel; social events at JFK Presidential Library and the HUB; optional Freedom Trail and Duck boat tours; Kay Duffy service award to Janine Hiller; Senior Distinguished Faculty Award to Larry DiMatteo; Junior Distinguished Faculty Award to Josh Perry; electronic program app; EC electronic Drop Box.

2014

Robert E. Thomas

Univ of Florida

Cindy Schipani

Seattle, WA

Aug. 3-7; Hyatt Olive 8 (LEED certified); Chihuly Museum and Glass House, Seattle Space Needle; options at Fisherman’s Wharf, underground tour; 1^st electronic link for conference papers and conference app.

2015

Cindy A. Schipani

Univ of Michigan

Dan Cahoy

Philadelphia, PA

Aug. 5-10; Sheraton Society Hill;  Independence Hall & “Franklin’s Footsteps”;  National Constitution  Center dinner; Robert Prentice - Senior Distinguished Faculty Award; Scott Shackelford - Junior Distinguished Faculty Award; Steve Salbu - Kay Duffy Memorial Service Award.

2016

Daniel R. Cahoy

Penn State Univ

Phil Nichols

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Aug 8-12; Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the beach with great pool; Beach party honoring Pat Pattison, Plenary Lunch at Antiguo Casino in Old Town;  1919 Restaurant for Past Presidents; Tour options: rain forest, Old Town, cruise; Junior Faculty Award to Charlotte Alexander; Bonsignore Award to Robert Emerson.

2017

Phil Nichols

Univ of  Pennsylvania

Jody Blanke

Savanah, GA

Aug 6-10; Hyatt Riverside; Plenary speaker: Dean Caryn Beck-Dudley (AACSB Board Chair); social event on Georgia Queen riverboat; Senior Distinguished Faculty Award to  Virginia Maurer and Junior Distinguished Faculty Award to  Steven Park.

2018

Jody Blanke

Mercer Univ

Marissa Pagnattaro

Portland, OR

Aug 9-14; Hilton on Pioneer Square; Plenary Speaker: Joan Gabel (Provost at Univ of S. Carolina); social event at St. Josef’s winery; Senior Distinguished Faculty Award to George Siedel and John Allison;  Junior Distinguished Faculty Award to Alex Reed.

2019

Marissa Pagnattaro

Univ of Georgia

Eric Yordy

Montreal, Canada

Aug. 6-10; Intercontinental Hotel; Plenary Speaker: Beverley McLachlin (retired Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Canada); social event: Pointe-á-Calliáre Montreal Archeology and History Complex; Senior Distinguished Career Faculty Award to Lucien Dhooge; Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award to Todd Haugh; and Kay Duffy Memorial Award to  Dan Cahoy.

2020

Eric Yordy

Northern Arizona Univ

Robert Bird

Virtual Meeting: 

Webex and Zoom

2020 Virtual Meeting (cont.)

Aug. 2-7;  First entirely virtual annual meeting on Zoom and Webex facilitated by Univ. of Conn. with 298 attendees;  In person meeting in Providence, RI was suspended due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Senior Distinguished Career Achievement Award: Lynda Oswald and  Cindy Schipani, both University of Michigan; : Early Career Achievement Award: Abbey Stemler, Indiana University; Kay Duffy Award for Extraordinary Service:  Patricia Pattison, Texas State/& Univ of Wyoming (retired) and; Barbara George, Cal State-Long Beach (retired): Master Teacher Award: Tonia Hap Murphy;  John Bonsignore Outstanding Teacher: Phil Nichols, Wharton. 

Plenary Fireside Chat:  Caryn Beck-Dudley (Pres. & CEO of AACSB, past ALSB Pres.) & John Elliott (AACSB Immediate Past Board Chair)

2021

Robert Bird

Univ. of Connecticut

Jamie Prenkert

Online Zoom meeting

Aug. 1-6

Distinguished Career:  Robert Emerson

Early Career: Leora Eisenstadt and Tim Staples

Master Teacher:  Debbie Kaminer

2022

Jamie Prenkert

Indiana Univ

Matthew Phillips

Louisville, KY

Louisville Omi Hotel  July 28-31

Churchill Downs social; Frazier History Museum with Christy Benson’s jazz trio; 

Plenary speaker:  Judge Bernice Donald (6^th Circuit)

Master teacher:  Lynda Oswald

Distinguished Career:  Tim Fort

Early Career:  Greg Day

Kay Duffy Award:  Robert Bird & Jamie Prenkert

John Norwood ALSB Scholarships

2023

Matthew Phillips

Wake Forest Univ.

Leigh Anderson

       San Diego, CA

Manchester Grand Hyatt July 25-29

Distinguished Career:  Carol Miller

Early Career:  Mike Shuster and Jeremy Kress

Master Teacher:  Mark Shapiro

Kay Duffy Award:  Phil Nichols

2024

Chicago, IL

Special midyear meeting in historic roots city;

Palmer House Hotel

2024

Leigh Anderson

Univ. of Maryland

Alex Reed

Washington D.C.

100^th Anniversary of ALSB Aug. 5-11 at

Mayflower Marriot Hotel

Kay Duffy Award:  Dan Herron

      35 Years as Executive Secretary of ALSB

       Dan Herron retiring as Exec. Secretary

Distinguished Career:  Joan Gabel

Early Career: John Holden

Master teacher:  Michael Conklin

Plenary speaker:  Judge Michelle Childs

Blue Ribbon Report - chaired by Caryn Beck-Dudley 

2025

Alex Reed

University of Georgia

Kabrina Chang

Providence, RI

Graduate Providence Hotel

Jehan El-Jourbagy – new ALSB Executive Secretary

Distinguished Career:  Jere Morehead

Early Career:  Suneal Bedi and Farshad Ghodoosi

Master teacher:  Stephanie Prevost

Kay Duffy Award:  Shelly Whitmer

2026

Kabrina Chang

Boston University

Liz Brown

Minneapolis, MN

Renaissance Hotel, The Depot

2027

Liz Brown

Bently

Leora Eisenstadt

Denver, CO

2028

Leora Eisenstadt

Temple University

Keith Diener

2029

Keith Diener

Stockton University