ALWD/LWI Survey

ALWD and LWI jointly sponsor a national survey of legal writing programs. The survey collects data on program design, curriculum, salary, workload, and status issues. Almost all law schools in the U.S. participate in these surveys.

ALWD/LWI Legal Writing Survey, 2023-2024

2023-2024 Survey Committee

  • Ted Becker (Co-Chair)
  • Marci A. Rosenthal (Co-Chair)
  • Alissa Rubin Gomez
  • Kim Holst
  • Michael Santana
  • Danielle Tully

This report presents the results of the Individual Survey component of the ALWD/LWI Legal Writing Survey for 2023-2024. These results provide information collected from 317 legal research and writing professors across the country. Access the 2023-2024 report here: 2023-24 Individual Survey report FINAL.pdf

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 2023-2024 Individual Survey. The valuable information this report provides would not be possible if it were not for the time and effort of those individuals.

For questions or more information about these results, contact Ted Becker (tbecker@umich.edu) or Marci Rosenthal (marciros@fiu.edu).