About

The Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (J. ALWD) is a publication of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. Its mission is to advance the study of professional legal writing and to become an active resource and a forum for conversation between the legal practitioner and the legal writing scholar. The Journal is dedicated to encouraging and publishing scholarship (1) focusing on the substance of legal writing; (2) grounded in legal doctrine, empirical research, or interdisciplinary theory; and (3) accessible and helpful to all “do-ers” of legal writing: attorneys, judges, law students, and legal academicians.

ALWD is a natural home for a journal that produces theoretical, empirical, and applied scholarship about professional legal writing. The organization's vision has been to build the profession and discipline of legal writing, a vision that requires further development of the theories underlying effective legal writing and continued research into the practices of legal writing.