Editor's Corner: “The Journal of Legal Studies Education and Legal Scholarship”

• Published date: 01 February 2008
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1722.2008.00043.x
• Date: 01 February 2008
• Author: Carol M. Bast

Editor’s Corner: ‘‘The Journal of

Legal Studies Education and Legal

Scholarship’’

Central to higher education is the scholarship, teaching, and service per-

formed by professors, all in furtherance of the ‘‘common good.’’

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While much

of what we Legal Studies professors do happens on our respective campuses

and in our own communities, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business

(ALSB) is a Legal Studies community that enables us to engage in scholarship,

teaching, and service on an international basis through the ALSB annual con-

ference, through regional conferences, and through ALSB academic journals.

The ALSB is blessed with two strong and healthy journals; the Amer-

ican Business Law Journal, first published in 1963, is forty-five, and the

Journal of Legal Studies Education (JLSE), brand new in 1983, turns twenty-

five this year. Both journals are vital to our Legal Studies community,

providing publication vehicles for manuscripts found to be worthy of pub-

lication through the double-blind peer-reviewed process, disseminating

the results of original research performed by the Legal Studies community,

advancing knowledge about law and business, and allowing their respec-

tive editorial boards to provide service to ALSB and to the Legal Studies

discipline. While both journals further the scholarship and service of in-

dividuals within the Legal Studies community, JLSE is more closely linked

to the teaching enterprise both inside and outside the classroom; thus, the

JLSE promotes scholarship, teaching, and service, all in one academic

journal. As stated in the JLSE mission statement:

The primary mission of the Journal is to serve as the premier outlet and forum

for peer-reviewed academic scholarship relating to pedagogical issues relevant

to legal and ethical education within the business curriculum. This scholarship

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‘‘Institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the

interest of either the individual teacher or the institution as a whole. The common good de-

pends upon the free search for truth and its free expression.’’ Am. Ass’n of Univ. Professors,

1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedomand Tenure,inPOLICY DOCUMENTS &REPORTS3, 3

(10th ed. 2006) (footnote omitted).