Starting in 2025, AALS communications will be looking through a different lens. After more than 60 years, we are discontinuing the quarterly print edition of AALS News.
This issue will be the last.
The first AALS newsletter was launched in 1964 by inaugural AALS Executive Director Michael H. Cardozo. Each of the four issues he released that year were typewritten, between three and four pages long with no images. By 1968, the Executive Committee confirmed that this source of information for all law faculty was well worth the investment of time and capital from the Office of the Executive Director. They ordered the continued publication of at least four issues per year. AALS News has been published on the same schedule through today.
Starting in 2025, AALS content will move to an online platform called AALS LENS (an acronym for Legal Education News and Stories). This website will feature a rolling stream of original articles, contributor stories, organizational updates, news highlights, and more.
The new online-only format will allow us to share relevant and interesting content more frequently and without the delays inherent in traditional print publishing. In addition to all the content traditionally included in the newsletter, we also look forward to bringing you stories in a wider variety of digital formats. LENS will be the single source for anything and everything related to AALS and to legal education.
AALS LENS will debut in January 2025.