{"id":5613,"date":"2025-05-03T03:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aals-history-book-documents-importance-of-the-rule-of-law-over-125-years\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T03:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:41:03","slug":"aals-history-book-documents-importance-of-the-rule-of-law-over-125-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aals-history-book-documents-importance-of-the-rule-of-law-over-125-years\/","title":{"rendered":"AALS History Book Documents Importance of the Rule of Law Over 125 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The Association of American Law Schools recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aals.org\/about\/history\/125th-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cThe First 125 Years,\u201d<\/a> an illustrated history of the AALS, documenting the early traditions and motivations, which were rooted in the importance of the rule of law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>AALS was founded in 1900 in Saratoga Springs, New York, kicking off what would become an annual tradition of meeting in person. \u201cLaw professors and deans traveled that August, and then the next year in 1901, and so forth,\u201d said book co-author Judy Areen, who served as executive director of AALS from 2014 to 2024. Areen spoke to Law.com last year, prior to retiring, about the &#8220;first-ever published history of the association,&#8221; which took approximately two years to put together, with the help of co-author Jean Waterman, a freelance writer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of American Law Schools recently released \u201cThe First 125 Years,\u201d an illustrated history of the AALS, documenting the early traditions and motivations, which were rooted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5776,5777,3441,1780,5778,153,372,148],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aals","tag-book","tag-documents","tag-history","tag-importance","tag-law","tag-rule","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}