Bulletin In 1908, the
Annual Bulletin was founded by the
Comparative Law Bureau (1907–1933) of the
American Bar Association. The first
comparative law journal in the U.S., it surveyed foreign legislation and legal literature. Circulated to all ABA members, it ran from 1908 to 1914 and was absorbed in 1915 by the ABA's newly formed
Journal.
Journal In 1915, the
American Bar Association Journal (abbreviated
Am. Bar Assoc. j.) was founded as a quarterly magazine. Published by the ABA, it ran under this title from January 1915 to December 1983, for volume 1 to 69. Quarterly from 1915 to 1920 (with its second quarter issue dedicated to the
Bulletin), it became monthly in 1921. then in May 1986 became 15 issues a year, was 375,045 (stable from 381,998 in December 1999). From 2012 to the end of 2017, the
executive editor and
publisher was Allen Pusey. In February 2018, Molly McDonough, was named editor and publisher. John O'Brien took over as editor and publisher in November 2019.
Online ABA Journal (Online) In 1996, an online complement to the
Journal appeared on the ABA website. This original version had monthly updates providing the current
Journal's cover and table of contents, as well as online copies of some selected articles, rising through various design changes from about 3 per month in 1996 to about 15 per month in 2000, to about 30 per month with the January 2001 new look announcing "Soon, every story in the print edition will also be available online." In 1999, the domain name ABAJournal.com had been registered and set as a redirect to the ABA website's
Journal home.
ABAJournal.com In January 2002, the site had a major redesign in form and content under then editor and publisher Danial J. Kim. The site's logo was updated to show "ABAJournal.com" as official web address the whole collection of the first
Journal (1915–1983) was made available on the subscription website
HeinOnline.
ABA Journal – Law News Now On July 23, 2007, the site was relaunched under then editor and publisher Edward A. Adams in a
Web 2.0 as well as a free archive of the full-text magazine since its January 2004 issue, with a search engine. Technically, the magazine is now hosted directly on the ABAJournal.com web address (instead of the domain being redirected to the ABA's website). ==References==