2017-2018 Survey Results
Association of Legal Writing Directors & Legal Writing Institute
This report presents the results of the ALWD/LWI Annual Legal Writing Survey for 2017-2018. These results provide information about the legal research and writing faculty, programs, and courses at 182 North American law schools, representing approximately 90% of the law schools solicited to complete the survey.
This report is the second iteration of a multi-year project that overhauled the decades-old Annual Survey with the goal of modernizing it and expanding the scope of information collected. No survey instrument can perfectly capture the varied, complex, and unique circumstances at our institutions. Although the report is admittedly an inexact composite of those circumstances, the survey results nevertheless show common practices and provide other valuable information about the current state of legal writing education in American law schools.
We thank all of the designated responders from each school who took the time to respond to the 2017 2018 Survey. The valuable information this report provides would not be possible if it were not for the time and effort of those designated responders.
Meredith Aden, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
Ted Becker, University of Michigan Law School