Professor Schwartz's Paper Wins AALS Honorable Mention

Professor Andrew Schwartz’s paper, “A ‘Standard Clause Analysis’ of the Frustration Doctrine and the Material Adverse Change Clause,” received one of only two Honorable Mentions in the Association of American Law Schools 2010 Scholarly Papers Competition, one of the most prestigious in legal education. He will present a summary of his paper at the AALS Annual Meeting in January.

"With over 100 submissions this year, the task of the selection committee was all the more difficult,” noted AALS Deputy Director, Elizabeth Patterson. The winners were chosen by a panel of eleven distinguished law scholars, using a 'blind-grading' process.

"At the urging of AALS President Roger Crampton, this competition was launched in 1986 to highlight the excellent work of junior faculty," AALS Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Susan Westerberg Prager said. The competition is limited to full-time law teachers who have been teaching at AALS member or fee-paid school for five years or fewer on July 1, 2009.