Law Teacher Relaunches with Routledge
The Association’s fully-refereed journal, The Law Teacher, also known as The International Journal of Legal Education, has been relaunched with a new publisher. After over 40 years of excellent service from Sweet & Maxwell, the Association has moved the journal to Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group. The main reasons for the move are the opportunities Routledge provide for electronic access to the journal and its broader availability internationally and in the developing world.
The journal will continue to provide three issues a year in hard copy and it will continue to be free to ALT members, who need to take no action. Members will also be provided with password-protected access to the electronic version of the journal. Currently in preparation is a full electronic archive from 1967, when The Law Teacher was first published. ALT members will, in due course, have free access to this as well.
These developments should make the journal more accessible, attract new readers and facilitate its task of disseminating ideas concerning legal education more extensively. This should also be attractive to authors, whose work will be more widely-read and extensively cited.
The first Routledge issue will be published late in March 2009 and will contain articles by Baroness Ruth Deech, Tan Seow Hon, Robert Kibugi, Mark Pawlowski and Sarah Greer, and Normann Witzleb and Natalie Skead. For those who are attending the Annual Conference in Amsterdam, the Monday lunch, sponsored by Routledge will contain a brief relaunch event. We hope you will be able to join us there.
Nigel Duncan
Editor
