Conflicts with Large Vendor Events at the Annual Meeting Why doesnt AALL allow anything to compete with big vendor social events?
Actually, it does. The only “no conflict” times on our schedule are for the Opening General Session, the Business Meeting, and three hours (one hour each day) for Exhibit Hall breaks. The Exhibit Hall breaks are intended to give members an opportunity to visit the Exhibit Hall without being forced to choose between exhibits and programs. These times in the Exhibit Hall were also used this year for making some of our awards, for our “meet the candidates” forum, and for prize drawings for prizes that are provided by AALL (not by vendors). A problem came up this year in New Orleans involving the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) reception, which was sponsored by Thomson West, and the Thomson West party. The time of the FCIL-SIS reception was changed at the request of Thomson West in order to avoid conflict with its party. This was a misunderstanding. The executive director has investigated and determined that some staff mistakenly thought that
