Dean Danielle M. Conway shares insights with TaxProf Blog about new AALS partnership

CARLISLE and UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.— Penn State Dickinson Law Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle M. Conway was recently quoted on TaxProf Blog in her capacity as president of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

The story introduced a newly signed multiyear strategic partnership between AALS and West Academic (a BARBRI company) that focuses on artificial intelligence (AI). The agreement is designed to offer students, staff, faculty, staff, and deans actionable resources as they adopt new technologies for legal education.

“Law schools across the nation have differing capacities with AI,” Conway said in the story. “The partnership between AALS and West Academic will create and strengthen opportunities for leveraging AI to support and enhance our educational mission.”

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Danielle M. Conway is the Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. A leading expert in procurement law, entrepreneurship, and intellectual property law, Dean Conway joined Penn State Dickinson Law after serving for four years as dean of the University of Maine School of Law and 14 years on the faculty of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law. Dean Conway’s scholarly agenda and speeches have focused on, among other areas, advocating for public education and for actualizing the rights of marginalized groups and promoting systemic equity in legal education and the profession. Under her leadership, Penn State Dickinson Law’s Antiracist Development Institute (ADI) was created to facilitate the dismantling of structures that scaffold systemic racial inequality by using a systems design approach focused on implementing antiracist practices, processes, and policies throughout organizations.

Dean Conway is the current president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). She is the co-recipient of the inaugural AALS Impact Award, which recognized her work in co-curating the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project, a webpage for law deans, faculty, staff, and the public that contains resources and information related to addressing systemic racism in law and legal education. Dean Conway is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the AALS Executive Committee, a director of the AccessLex Institute, and a 27-year veteran of the United States Army, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.