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Professor Katherine Macfarlane, director of the Disability Law and Policy Program, was elected to chair the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) section on Women in Legal Education (WILE).

Macfarlane previously served as WILE’s chair-elect and treasurer, and has also chaired the AALS section on disability law.

She co-founded the first AALS affinity group for disabled law professors and allies. She frequently presents and writes about students, lawyers and professors with disabilities, and the challenges they face in obtaining reasonable accommodations.

“It is an honor to lead this important and influential section,” Macfarlane says. “I am excited for this opportunity to give back by providing leadership and mentorship to all women in legal education.”

According to the AALS, “The provides information to its members respecting the integration of women and women’s concerns into the legal profession and the law, promotes the communication of ideas, interests and activities among members of the section, makes recommendations on matters concerning the administration of law schools and on the status of women in legal education and makes recommendations on matters of interest in the teaching and improvement of the law school curriculum.”

At the recent held at Boston University’s School of Law, Macfarlane participated in the gender and status in the legal academy and profession panel.

Macfarlane teaches civil rights litigation, constitutional law and disability law and is a senior fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute.

Her scholarship has appeared or will appear in the Georgetown Law Journal, Ohio State Law Journal, Washington Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Columbia Law Review Forum, American University Law Review, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal and the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, among others.