Editorial Board
Scholars and professionals guiding editorial standards and strategic direction.
Meet the boardAbout the Journal
Legal scholarship for fields that move faster than traditional publishing allows.
JLETI publishes timely and practical work on law, technology, legal education, law librarianship, and the future of legal practice.
Our Approach
A More Responsive Model for Legal Scholarship
The Journal of Law, Emerging Technology, and Information expands what serious legal scholarship can look like by publishing timely and practical work on law, technology, legal information, legal education, law librarianship, and the future of legal practice. Traditional law review structures have long been criticized for producing scholarship that is overly lengthy, inaccessible, slow to publish, and disconnected from the needs of practitioners, educators, and the public. JLETI responds by supporting rigorous, timely, and practical work in a range of formats designed around how legal knowledge is created, shared, and used today.
The Problems with Traditional Scholarship
- Too slow. Long review cycles delay ideas until the moment has passed.
- Too narrow. Many important voices, methods, and formats are excluded.
- Too impractical. Real-world insights often do not fit traditional molds.
- Too static. Once published, it is hard to correct, clarify, or respond.
- Too scattered. Valuable work lives in silos with little discoverability.
How JLETI Solves Them
- Timely by design. Rolling publication puts scholarship into the world sooner.
- Inclusive of format and audience. We publish the work that matters.
- Practical and rigorous. Useful to practitioners and scholars alike.
- Responsive. Updates, clarifications, and editorial notes keep work alive.
- Unified and discoverable. One trusted home for this evolving field.
JLETI is not meant to be static. It is built to evolve, respond to legal and technological change, and support new forms of legal scholarship as they emerge. JLETI takes an expansive view of scholarly contribution and welcomes work that is practical and useful to the communities it serves. In addition to traditional scholarship, JLETI will publish work that advances understanding, improves practice, or makes legal knowledge more accessible.
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A Response to Frozen Scholarship
Law, technology, and facts do not stand still, and scholarship should not either. JLETI’s rolling publication model welcomes appropriate updates, clarifications, editorial notes, and responsive scholarship so the record can keep pace with reality.
- Update or clarify your own published work
- Respond to new developments in law or technology
- Add editorial notes for significant developments
- Publish new work that builds on what came before
- Keep the scholarly record accurate and alive
Accepted submissions will be published online on a rolling basis so timely work reaches readers when it is most useful. Published works will later be collected into formal issues. Where appropriate, JLETI may support updated, responsive, or experimental scholarship, including updates when legal, technological, or factual developments occur. This approach helps address the “frozen scholarship” problem by allowing scholarship to remain useful, accurate, and connected to developments after initial publication.
What We Publish
What JLETI Publishes
JLETI takes an expansive view of scholarly contribution. Alongside traditional articles, it accepts shorter, practical, and experimental formats, from full-length scholarship to rapid research updates.
JLETI is especially interested in work that people can cite, teach, assign, implement, evaluate, and use. The goal is not to abandon rigor. It is to stop treating length, opacity, and footnote density as the only markers of scholarly value.
Scholarship is more than doctrine. A contribution may be doctrinal, empirical, pedagogical, practical, methodological, reflective, or evaluative, so long as it meaningfully advances understanding, practice, or the public good.
Our Scope
The Fields We Cover
AI, Technology, and Innovation
Artificial intelligence, generative AI, legal technology, and innovation in legal practice and systems.
Research, Data, and Evaluation
Legal research methods, data, analytics, computational studies, and tool and platform evaluations.
Privacy, Security, and Information Policy
Privacy, cybersecurity, information governance, and policy for the digital environment.
Courts, Access, and Public Information
Court technology and judicial innovation, access to justice, and public legal information.
Regulation and Governance
Technology regulation, platform governance, and legal and policy frameworks.
Education, Ethics, and Responsibility
Legal education, AI literacy, ethics, and professional responsibility in a technology-rich world.
Libraries, Information Services, and Archives
Law librarianship, library technology, digital archives, and information preservation and services.
Emerging Issues
Emerging issues across law, technology, and information shaping the future of legal scholarship and practice.
Our Values
We Value Work That Is
- Clear and transparentEasy to understand and transparent in purpose, methods, and sources.
- Evidence-based and rigorousGrounded in evidence and rigorous analysis.
- Ethical and responsibly producedEthical in approach and responsibly created.
- Measurably impactfulCapable of creating real-world impact.
- Useful and practically relevantUseful to practitioners, educators, researchers, and policymakers.
- Well-reasoned and well-supportedLogical, well-argued, and supported by authoritative sources.
- Methodologically soundMethodologically appropriate and carefully executed.
- Readable and accessible without sacrificing depthWritten clearly without sacrificing depth or sophistication.
Our Community
Readers, Authors, and Contributors
Law, emerging technology, and information are deeply interdisciplinary, and JLETI is meant to be useful to the many different people working across them. It is read by and built with faculty, law librarians, students, practitioners, and technologists, and it is just as relevant to people working in legal technology who are not lawyers at all.
JLETI is not backed by or limited to any single institution. Instead, JLETI brings together academics, practitioners, legal information professionals, and innovation leaders from across the legal ecosystem who share a commitment to making legal scholarship more accessible, practical, transparent, and responsive to technological change.
- Faculty and Legal EducatorsScholars advancing research and teaching in law and technology.
- Law LibrariansInformation professionals shaping how legal knowledge is found and used.
- StudentsLaw and graduate students exploring, contributing, and learning.
- Practitioners and JudgesLawyers, courts, and policymakers who need clear, timely, practical insight.
- Legal Technologists and BuildersPeople designing, evaluating, and implementing legal technology.
- Researchers Beyond LawExperts from information science, data science, and related fields.
You do not have to be a lawyer to contribute. Because this field sits at the intersection of law, technology, and information, JLETI actively welcomes contributors and readers from other disciplines. Strong work often comes from people outside law who understand the tools, the data, and the practical realities of the field.
Beyond the Journal
A Scholarly Ecosystem, Not Just a Publication
JLETI is more than a journal. It will also support related scholarly opportunities, including writing competitions, fellowships, research grants, The Scholarship Lab, innovation competitions, and resource libraries featuring materials from conferences, presentations, and webinars, so that helpful scholarship, information, and resources for this field live in one place.
AI Scholarship Lab
A home for experiments that test tools, methods, and emerging ideas.
Explore the LabJLETI Fellowships
Opportunities for contributors to develop and publish practical, timely work.
Learn moreWriting Competition
A JLETI and Vanderbilt AI Law Lab collaboration inviting new work from students, scholars, and practitioners.
View the competitionResource Libraries
Teaching materials, datasets, toolkits, and guides to support the field.
Our Purpose
Our Mission
JLETI is also interested in responsible uses of technology in scholarly publishing, including ways to streamline editorial workflows, support citation review, and document transparent publication practices. The aim is not only to publish work about law and emerging technology, but to model thoughtful innovation in legal publishing itself.
To publish rigorous, readable, practical, and interdisciplinary scholarship on the evolving relationship between law, technology, legal information, legal education, legal research, and professional practice.
The JLETI Mission
