Professor Amy C. Gaudion presents at AALS Annual Meeting on Promoting the Rule of Law through teaching

CARLISLE— Professor Amy C. Gaudion presented “Getting Good at the Way We Disagree: Lessons from the Quakers and the U.S. Military,” as part of the symposium programming at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

The AALS symposium topic for the meeting was "Promoting the Rule of Law," and Gaudion’s remarks were part of the panel on “Support for the Rule of Law through Teaching.”

She described Quaker educational philosophy and profiled partnerships between the military’s service academies and liberal arts colleges, drawing lessons from this unconventional pairing on the importance of disagreeing well. She offered a framework for teaching how to disagree well, even in an environment fraught with artificial intelligence, misinformation, and hyperbole.

The panel discussion was organized by Jerry Organ, co-director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and featured presentations by Kendall Kerew, Patricia Winograd, Michael Simons, Leanne Fuith, and Leah Teague.

Amy C. Gaudion is a professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law as well as the founder of Penn State Dickinson Law’s annual cyberspace simulation with the U.S. Army War College. Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, national security law, and civil-military relations, and she leads the Law School’s national security and cyberspace programs.