November 18, 2025, Update:

AALS New Voices in Administrative Law seeks more senior commentators! We’ve received a bumper crop of submissions from junior scholars and need more senior commentators. 

The New Voices program is scheduled for Tuesday, January 6, 2026, from 4:10 to 5:25 p.m. at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans. If you’re able to join us as a commentator, please let Anya Bernstein know: anya.bernstein@uconn.edu. (If you’ve already signed up, no need to reiterate; this call is for additional commentators.) Thanks very much to all who have already signed up and all who do in response to this call; the New Voices panel has become a Section mainstay, and we’re grateful to everyone who helps make it happen. 

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From Professor Anuj Desai, Chair of the AALS Administrative Law Section (originally published September, 25, 2025):

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Administrative Law is pleased to announce the “New Voices in Administrative Law” program for the 2026 AALS Annual Meeting, which will be held in January in New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Voices program gives junior administrative law scholars an opportunity to receive useful feedback on their work from more senior reviewers before publication. We welcome submission of early-stage drafts and encourage eligible scholars to participate. As noted below, there will be time to revise submissions before they are circulated to commentators and posted as part of the panel. 

The goal is to have each participating junior scholar assigned to two designated reviewers. The reviewers are senior administrative law scholars who will read the junior scholar’s paper in advance and offer constructive comments during the program. Anyone else interested in participating in one of the discussions is welcome to join. The New Voices program is scheduled for Tuesday, January 6, 2026, from 4:10 to 5:25 p.m.  

For Interested Junior Scholars

To participate, junior scholars must be full-time faculty members, including full-time visiting assistant professors or fellows, at AALS member schools. Papers that have been posted on scholarship networks such as SSRN, but not yet published, are eligible for consideration.

Please email Professor Bridget Dooling at dooling.10@osu.edu by Friday, October 31, 2025, to be considered for participation in the program. In your email, include the title of your paper and attach an abstract or working draft. Please also include in the email your school, tenure status, years in the position, any prior legal academic positions, and whether you have previously participated in the New Voices program. Finally, please use “AALS New Voices” as the email header.

If your paper is selected for participation in the program, you must submit a draft via email to the above address no later than Friday, December 5, 2025. This deadline is important to provide the designated reviewers ample time to read their assigned drafts before the program. The draft submitted does not need to be completely polished and ready for law-review submission; reviewers welcome papers in earlier stages when the author can most benefit from feedback about the project.

For Senior Scholars Interested in Serving as Reviewers

If you are interested in serving as a reviewer this year, please email Professor Anya Bernstein at anya.bernstein@uconn.edu as soon as possible.

For All Participants

Please be aware that selected participants and commentators must register for the AALS Annual Meeting and attend the conference in person. If you have any questions about the New Voices program, feel free to contact Professor Anuj Desai at anuj.desai@wisc.edu.