AALS conducts occasional studies that inform the state of legal education. These studies enjoy national attention due to their depth and breadth.
The Women Attorneys in Higher Education Leadership study was designed to understand the experiences, career pathways, challenges, and characteristics of women attorneys leading higher education institutions
The American Law School Faculty Study provides a snapshot of law teaching and today and is the first of its kind to detail faculty career pathways and work experiences as well as recent hiring trends in legal education.
As legal education reaches another watershed moment, understanding the American law school deanship has become more important than ever. The American Law School Dean Study is based primarily on a survey of the 197 sitting and 222 former law deans who served between 2010 and 2020.
Public-spirited factors lead the list of reasons for considering law school among undergraduates in the United States, according to Before the JD: Undergraduate Views on Law School, a new report on student perspectives on legal education that is based on a survey by Gallup for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).
In the study, AALS and Gallup collected data about career aspirations, sources of advice, and reasons for going to graduate school from undergraduates considering a variety of future educational paths including a wide range of graduate and professional degrees. Beyond the Bachelor’s reveals new answers to these and other persistent questions about higher and advanced education.