Introducing The Journal of Law, Emerging Technology, and Information

We are pleased to announce the launch of The Journal of Law, Emerging Technology, and Information (JLETI), an independent, open-access scholarly publication created to support serious, practical, and timely conversations about the rapidly changing legal profession.

JLETI was founded in response to a growing need for a publication space that reflects the realities of modern legal scholarship and practice. In areas such as artificial intelligence, emerging technology, legal education, legal research, legal information, law librarianship, access to justice, and the future of legal practice, important developments often move faster than traditional publication models allow. Scholars, educators, law librarians, practitioners, technologists, students, and other professionals are producing valuable work that does not always fit neatly within conventional law review structures, yet still deserves to be edited, preserved, cited, and taken seriously.

The Journal seeks to occupy that space.

JLETI’s mission is to publish scholarship that is credible, practical, and accessible to the people shaping the future of law, technology, legal information, and legal education. The Journal welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship, essays, practical articles, teaching materials, commentary, and other contributions that help readers understand and respond to changes in law, technology, legal education, legal information, and the legal profession.

The Journal is especially interested in work that connects scholarly analysis with real-world application. This includes work that helps legal educators teach new competencies, helps lawyers and law students navigate emerging tools and professional obligations, helps law librarians and legal information professionals respond to technological change, and helps institutions think critically about the future of legal education and legal practice.

As an open-access publication, JLETI is committed to making scholarship and professional knowledge widely available. The Journal will publish accepted submissions online on a rolling basis, allowing timely work to reach readers when it is most useful. Published works may later be collected into formal issues, and where appropriate, the Journal may also support updated or responsive scholarship in fast-moving areas.

The goal of JLETI is not to replace traditional legal scholarship, but to expand what serious legal scholarship can look like. Meaningful contributions to law and legal education may take many forms, including traditional articles, shorter essays, practical guides, pedagogical materials, interdisciplinary analysis, and work that speaks directly to emerging problems in practice.

Through this model, JLETI seeks to create a credible, useful, and forward-looking publication space for the people thinking seriously about where law, technology, information, and education are headed next.

We look forward to building this community and publishing work that helps shape the future of legal education, legal information, and legal practice.