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Aims and Scope
The Journal of Legal Education is a quarterly publication of the Association of American Law Schools. The primary purpose of the Journal is to foster a rich interchange of ideas and information about legal education and related matters, including but not limited to the legal profession, legal theory, and legal scholarship. With a readership of more than 10,000 law teachers and about 500 subscribers, the Journal offers an unusually effective medium for communication to the law school world.
Journal Information
The quarterly Journal of Legal Education, JLE, published since 1948, addresses issues confronting legal educators, including curriculum development, teaching methods and scholarship, and serves as an outlet for emerging areas of scholarship and teaching. JLE is made available without cost to full-time faculty at member schools through the courtesy of West and Foundation Press, which print the Journal.
The Journal is edited for a term of years by faculty at a member school or schools. New York Law School and the University of California, Irvine School of Law currently share editorial responsibility for the journal.
Publishing formats: Print and Online
Publication frequency: Quarterly
Peer Review model: Yes
** Manuscripts: Are reviewed on an ongoing basis unless indicated otherwise in an occasional call for papers. In AY 2025-26 the journal is already committed to several symposia and has limited space for additional articles. Rolloing reviews remain open, but editors will necessarily have to be unusually selective in accepting work for publication.**
Indexed in: Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, Legaltrac and many other journal indicies
Digital archive: https://jle.aals.org/home/
Copyright:
The AALS holds the copyright to the JLE as a compendium, but it does not own the copyright to individual articles published in the JLE. In most cases, AALS retains a nonexclusive license to publish, reproduce, display, and distribute JLE articles in any language and in any form, and to grant third-party use without seeking the author’s prior express consent. No part of an article may be reproduced, republished, or reprinted without permission in writing from the AALS. Certain permissions can be granted free of charge (i.e., reprints for academic use, such as a casebook), while others incur a fee (purely commercial purposes).
Permission to use copyright-protected JLE materials should be obtained, in writing, by the requesting party prior to using the JLE materials. The AALS grants permission for use of JLE content in academic classrooms free of charge. Classroom use entails the copying and no-fee distribution of works to enrolled students and instructors at a college or university. Most commercial republication requests, other than, for example, use in an academic casebook, requires payment of a copyright release fee for non-exclusive, one-time use of the work. A publisher wishing to use any copyrighted material from the JLE must obtain advance permission from AALS to republish, unless that copyrighted material is considered “fair use.” As a general matter, “fair use” is typically limited to scholarly, educational and other non-commercial uses.
When permission is granted, authorized users of copyright-protected JLE materials should in all cases identify the author and the JLE and affix a notice identifying AALS as the copyright holder of the JLE: © 2020 Association of American Law Schools.
For permission to use copyright-protected JLE material and other copyright questions, contact copyright@aals.org.
Subscription Fee:
Subscriptions are 50 U.S dollars per volume for U.S. and international subscribers. International subscribers must pay a shipping fee of an additional $4.50 per copy for international shipping costs. Please make your check payable in U.S. dollars to the American Association of Law Schools and send it to:
AALS
1614 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
Sponsors and Affiliated Institutions
- American Association of Law Schools