MEMORANDUM 02-55

 

November 14, 2002

 

To: Deans of Member and Fee-Paid Schools
Associate Deans of Academic Affairs
From: Carl C. Monk
Subject: Journal of Legal Education -- Request for Proposals

 

The Journal of Legal Education, published by the Association of American Law Schools, is the premier professional journal on issues affecting legal education. For the past four years, Dean Kent Syverud and Associate Dean Don Welch of Vanderbilt University have served as editors. They have announced that they plan to leave the editorship of the Journal of Legal Education on December 31, 2003. All of us in legal education are grateful for their excellent stewardship of the Journal and for the contributions of the Vanderbilt University School of Law as the host school. The purpose of this memorandum is to invite your law school and a member or members of your faculty to submit a proposal to assume the editorship of the Journal of Legal Education.

The AALS Executive Committee seeks to ensure that the Journal of Legal Education continues to be a high quality journal that provides an open forum for all members of the legal education community and captures the excitement and ferment within legal education today. Thus, the Executive Committee seeks to forge a partnership with a law school (or law schools) that will assume responsibility for the Journal of Legal Education for the next five years. The enclosed Request for Proposals describes the goals, editorial structure, budget and application procedures for the Journal. I hope that your school and a member(s) of your faculty will be interested in submitting a proposal. Proposals should be submitted by March 15, 2003. Please post the enclosed flyer on your faculty bulletin board.

The information included in the enclosed Request for Proposals will assist law schools to apply for the responsibility of editing the Journal. The Executive Committee expects to announce its selection no later than August 1st. Proposals, which should be in our office by March 15th, should be sent to: Journal of Legal Education Proposals, Association of American Law Schools, 1201 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20036.

We urge you to consider seriously this opportunity for your school and for legal education. Deans Syverud and Welch would be pleased to discuss this opportunity with you.

cc:
AALS Executive Committee
Deans of non-member, fee-paid schools
Deans Syverud and Welch
Journal of Legal Education Editorial Board

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