2020-2021 Survey Results
Association of Legal Writing Directors & Legal Writing Institute
This report presents the results of the Individual Survey component of the ALWD/LWI Legal Writing Survey for 2020-2021. These results provide information collected from over 330 legal research and writing professors across the country.
This report is the latest 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 every law school or of the many individual professors who teach legal research and writing at those schools.
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 respondents who took the time to complete the 2020-2021 Individual Survey. The valuable information this report provides would not be possible if it were not for the time and effort of those individuals.
Ted Becker, University of Michigan Law School
Marci A. Rosenthal, Florida International University College of Law