The Journal of Legal Education (ISSN 0022-2208) is the journal of record for the American legal academy, published by the Association of American Law Schools in its role as the learned society for the study of law and legal education. The Journal’s primary purpose is to provide AALS member schools and faculty with articles of timely relevance to a wide array interests and areas of expertise. The Journal serves as a meaningful way for faculty and others to keep abreast of the most recent thinking, trends, and changes in the legal academy. With a readership of more than 10,000 law teachers, the Journal offers authors an unusually effective medium for communicating with the law school world.
Volume 74, Number 1 Summer 2026
Articles
Fostering Future Difference-Makers: The Integration of Leadership Training in Law Schools
Leah Teague
What Do We Do at the End of a World?: Cultivating Emergent Leadership in a Time of Collapse
Brent Godfrey
Professional Identity Formation As Theory and As Practice for the Education of a Lawyer
Louis D. Bilionis and Neil W. Hamilton
Practicing Pietas: Character Development for Lawyers as Citizens
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
Conviction, Character, Courage: The Case for Integrating Values into the Professional Identity Formation of Tomorrow's Lawyer-Leaders
Katya S. Cronin
Moral Virtues, Professional Identity, and Leadership
Timothy W. Floyd
The Large Impact of Small Groups on the Character-Based Leadership Development of Law Students
Benjamin Rigney and Janice Craft
Book Review
Editors
- New York Law School
- Kris Franklin
- New York Law School
- Bill LaPiana
- University of California, Irvine School of Law
- Alison Mikkor
- University of California, Irvine School of Law
- Austen Parrish