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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN LAW TEACHERS ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER JANUARY 6, 2006 WASHINGTON, DC - SOCIETYOF AMeRICAN LAW TEACHERS A COMMUNITYOF PROGRESSIVE LAW TEACHERS WORKING FORJUSTICE, DIVERSITYANDACADEMICEXCELLENCE "Over the past 30years, SAL T's impact on issues ofaccess, diversity andjustice within our profession has been enonnous. I'd hate to contemplate the face of the academy without it. " -Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Firsr conceived in J 972, the Society of American Law Teachers has grown to a membership base of over I 000law professors, librarians, and administrators. SALT has sustained an activist agenda to make the legal profession more inclusive, enhance the quality oflegal education, and extend the power of law to underserved individuals and communities. SALT'ss programs, projects and activities are infused with the values of diversity, equality, justice, and academic excellence. SALT SOCIETY OF AMERICAN LAW TEACHERS SALT 2006 Awards Dinner Program Welcoming Remarks Jose Roberto (Beto) Juarez. Jr. & Holly Maguigan SALT Co-Presidents Remembrances Remarks Honoring SALT Human Rights Award Recipients David Cole Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, President Burt Neuborne Presentation of Award Jose Roberto (Beto) Juarez. Jr. & Holly Maguigan Remarks Honoring SALT Great Teacher Award Recipient Eric Yamamoto Van Luong & Mari Matsuda Presentation of Award Avi Soifer Tribute to New York Law School Vermont Law School William Mitchell College of Law Paula Johnson & Michael Rooke-Ley Tribute to Outgoing Co-Presidents Holly Maguigan Jose Roberto (Beto) Judrez, Jr. Eileen Kaufman & Tayyab Mahmud Incoming Co-Presidents Concluding Remarks Society of American Law Teachers Co-Presidents Co-Presidents Elect Jose Roberto (Beto) Juarez. Jr. (St. Mary's) Eileen Kaufman (Touro) Holly Maguigan (NYU) T ayyab Mahmud (John Marshall) Past Presidents of SALT (In Order of Service) Norman Dorsen (NYU) Howard Lesnick (Pennsylvania) David L. Chambers (Michigan) George J. Alexander (Santa Clara) Wendy W. Williams (Georgetown) Rhonda D. Rivera (Ohio State) Emma Coleman Jordan (Georgetown) Charles R. Lawrence III (Georgetown) Howard A. Glickstein (Touro) Sylvia A. Law (NYU) Patricia A. Cain (Iowa) Jean C. Love (Iowa) Linda S. Greene (Wisconsin) Phoebe A. Haddon (Temple) Stephanie M. Wildman (Santa Clara) Carol Chomsky (Minnesota) Margaret E. Montoya (New Mexico) Paula C. Johnson (Syracuse) Michael Rooke-Ley (Seattle) Past Vice-Presidents (In Order of Service) Anthony G. Amsterdam (NYU) Derrick A. Bell, Jr. (NYU) Gary Bellow (Harvard) Ralph S. Brown, Jr. (Yale) Thomas Emerson (Yale) Board of Governors Bryan Adamson (Seattle) Raquel Aldana (UNLV) Margaret Martin Barry (Catholic) Steven W. Bender (Oregon) David A. Brennen (Mercer) Eduardo Capulong (NYU) Nancy Cook (Roger Williams) Robert Dinerstein (American) Jane Dolkart (SMU) Linda Edwards (Mercer) Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver) Patricia Falk (Cleveland-Marshall) Kristin Booth Glen (CUNY) Kent Greenfield (Boston College) Emily Houh (Cincinnati) Conrad Johnson (Columbia) Eileen Kaufman (T ouro) Robert Lancaster (Indiana-Indianapolis) Tayyab Mahmud (John Marshall) Joan Mahoney (Wayne State) Adele Morrison (Northern Illinois) Camile Nelson (St. Louis) Nancy Ota (Albany) Deborah Waire Post (Touro) Bill Quigley (Loyola-New Orleans) Florence Wagman Roisman (Indiana-Indianapolis) Natsu Taylor Saito (Georgia State) Aviam Soifer (Hawaii) Kellye Testy (Seattle) Frank Wu (Wayne State) Treasurer Secretary Norm Stein (Alabama) Emily Houh (Cincinnati) Equalizer Editor Raleigh Hannah Levine (William Mitchell) Webmaster Richard H. Chused (Georgetown) Historian Joyce Saltalamachia (New York) Membership Records David Chavkin (American) CLEO Representative Paula Johnson (Syracuse) David Cole David Cole of the Georgetown Law Center, co-recipient of this year's Human Rights Award, embodies SALT's ideal of harnessing legal scholarship in the service of social justice. His scholarship, litigation and engagement as an activist public intellectual, combine to teach his students, shape the law and inspire a hope for justice in oppressed communities. Anthony Lewis has called David "one of the country's great legal voices for civil liberties today." David's prolific scholarship has been influential far beyond legal academia, helping to frame two of the most timely legal public policy debates of the last decade. His first book No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, appeared in 1999 in the midst of the most intense public dialogue on racial profiling in a quarter century in the aftermath of the killing of Amadou Diallo. David's latest book, Enemy Aliens, is the essential work analyzing the array of compelling national security legal issues in the aftermath of 9/11. The book details the historic lessons about mistakes and dangers when U.S. law shortchanges fairness in dealing with national crisis, and analyzes constitutional principles and the legal issues presented by the War on Terrorism. David's litigation has affected key areas of the social justice landscape of today's courts. In the original NOWv. Terry, David crafted and won a vital doctrine for protection of a woman's constitutional right to reproductive privacy. His prolific First Amendment and civil liberties litigation has ranged from protecting political expression in Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, the flag burning cases, to the most complex contemporary issues of association and expression. Even before 9/11, he represented 13 foreign nationals who the government sought to use secret evidence to detain or deport on broad allegations of affiliation with terrorist groups. All 13 were eventually freed or granted the relief they requested, often after successful constitutional challenges. David's 9/11 litigation has been in the forefront of the major legal issues of the post-9/11 era. He brought the first successful lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act, Humanitarian Law Project v. Ashcroft; he and the Center for Constitutional Rights are litigating the first legal challenge to rendition for torture in the case of Maher Arar. And in another case he and CCR are challenging the round-up of hundreds of foreign nationals in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, none of whom turned out to have any ties to terrorism, but many of whom were arrested without charges, denied access to counsel, and detained long after their immigration cases were resolved. David's concern for the law's diminished legal protections for immigrants has been ever-present in his scholarship, litigation and activities before Congress and the media. With CCR, he challenged the legality of closed immigration proceedings after 9/11, on First Amendment grounds on behalf of news organizations in New Jersey, and on due process grounds on behalf of a detained immigrant. And David's representation of a group of Palestinian immigrants in Los Angeles for over 18 years, which began with charges of communist affiliation under the McCarran-Walter Act in 1987, and now includes equally sweeping charges of membership in a terrorist group under the REAL ID Act of 2005, has been a contemporary legal epic, at each tum posing the question to our legal system of whether it is willing to deny fairness and due process to the most vulnerable among us, in the name of expediency in a time of crisis. David began his legal career at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, where he remains a Volunteer Staff Attorney and is a member of its board. He is the legal affairs correspondent for the Nation magazine, and a commentator on National Public Radio. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Arlin Adams on the Third Circuit. No Equal Justice, David's first book, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review and best book on an issue of national policy by the American Political Science Association. Enemy Aliens won the American Book Award and the Hefner First Amendment Prize, and none other than former CIA director James Woolsey has called it "the essential book in the field." David lives in Washington D.C. with his wife, constitutional litigator and law professor Nina Pillard, and their children Aidan and Sarah. Center for Constitutional Rights centerforconstitutionalright The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a public interest law firm and education organization born out of the grassroots civil rights movement of the 1960's South, is the co-recipient of SALT's Human Rights Award. For over 39 years, CCR staff and volunteer attorneys have created cutting edge civil and human rights legal doctrine, advancing guarantees of the Constitution and the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The creation of CCR as a permanent social justice law center was inspired by experiences of its founders