To keep law school faculty and staff up to date with the latest legal education news, we collect articles on new programs, collaborations with other schools, faculty accomplishments, awards, clinical activities, and special events. You can share news and updates with the editors of the weekly digest here. With the launch of our online platform LENS, we will be sharing a weekly roundup of legal education news, highlighting the most important stories.

To keep law school faculty and staff up to date with the latest legal education news, we collect articles on new programs, collaborations with other schools, faculty accomplishments, awards, clinical activities, and special events. You can share news and updates with the editors of the weekly digest here. With the launch of our online platform LENS, we will be sharing a weekly roundup of legal education news, highlighting the most important stories.

Through an annual nationwide survey, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) measured law school contributions to the delivery of much-needed legal services through clinics, other experiential courses, and the pro bono activities of law students.  In the fall of 2024, 82 law schools reported that 18,929 law students in the graduating class of 2024* contributed […]

More than 830 legal educators attended the largest AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, held April 26-29, 2025 in Baltimore.

To keep law school faculty and staff up to date with the latest legal education news, we collect articles on new programs, collaborations with other schools, faculty accomplishments, awards, clinical activities, and special events. You can share news and updates with the editors of the weekly digest here. With the launch of our online platform LENS, we will be sharing a weekly roundup of legal education news, highlighting the most important stories.

The recently published issue (73-2) of the Journal of Legal Education includes articles in three areas that have long been the publication’s focus as the journal of record for legal education: pedagogical innovation, the design of legal education and curricula, and the connections between legal education, law practice, and licensure. This is the first issue edited jointly […]

To keep law school faculty and staff up to date with the latest legal education news, we collect articles on new programs, collaborations with other schools, faculty accomplishments, awards, clinical activities, and special events. You can share news and updates with the editors of the weekly digest here. With the launch of our online platform LENS, we will be sharing a weekly roundup of legal education news, highlighting the most important stories.

To keep law school faculty and staff up to date with the latest legal education news, we collect articles on new programs, collaborations with other schools, faculty accomplishments, awards, clinical activities, and special events. You can share news and updates with the editors of the weekly digest here. With the launch of our online platform LENS, we will be sharing a weekly roundup of legal education news, highlighting the most important stories.

Since I began my tenure at AALS last July, I have sought to find ways to better connect our members to AALS and to one another, and to amplify the many accomplishments of our member schools, faculty, administrators, staff, and deans.

Almost 125 years ago, in August 1900 in Saratoga Springs, representatives of 35 law schools convened to establish the AALS, as way to strengthen American legal education, with the goal of producing lawyers, judges, and legal thought-leaders with the expertise and integrity essential for the country’s future. Today AALS continues as a critically vital resource to faculty, staff, and law school leaders, at each stage of their professional journey. AALS also continues its advocacy for excellence in American legal education and legal education’s critical role in advancing law, justice, and the rule of law.