Peter Hessler, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory (2010), page 230:
[I]n Communist China, whenever a new leader takes office, he sponsors a slogan-filled study campaign as a way of consolidating power. “Preserving the Progressiveness” was Hu Jintao’s first attempt at theory, and the precise meaning of the catchphrase was characteristically vague. It was intended to resemble a grassroots operation, although of course all directives came straight from the top.
The themes of the twelve most recent annual meetings of the American Association of Law Schools:
- 2012: Academic Freedom and Academic Duty
- 2011: Core Educational Values: Guideposts for the Pursuit of Excellence in Challenging Times
- 2010: Transformative Law
- 2009: Institutional Pluralism
- 2008: Reassessing Our Roles as Scholars and Educators in Light of Change
- 2007: Expanding Knowledge and Serving Our Communities: Academic, Civil, and International
- 2006: Empirical Scholarship: What Should We Study and How Should We Study It?
- 2005: Engaged Scholarship
- 2004: The Association as a Learned Society
- 2003: Legal Education Engages the World
- 2002: Do You Know Where Your Students Are? Langdell Logs on to the 21st Century
- 2001: Pursuing Equal Justice: Law Schools and the Provision of Legal Services