The American University Legislation and Policy Brief (AULPB) is the legislative-based legal publication of the Washington College of Law. Founded in 2008 as the Legislation and Policy Roundtable, it was created to provide a legal analysis of current legislative initiatives and policies and to encourage meaningful debate on timely issues; for example, in the 2008–09 academic year, the Roundtable discussed voter disenfranchisement and fraud in the 2008 Elections. 

 

When it transitioned into a brief, it aimed to increase discussion and awareness of legal issues in pending legislation, with the goal of making WCL “a better support mechanism for the future legislative-lawyer by providing training in, and a publishing forum for, in-depth legislative history and analysis.” In 2011, the Editorial Board started The AULPB Blog as a means to publish more quickly on a greater diversity of policy issues. Notably, the AULPB was conceived and designed as a “bipartisan” or “nonpartisan” publication that took on policy issues in Washington, D.C. without slant to either political party.

 

In recent years, the AULBP has experienced reduced participation and readership. The Brief went dormant in Fall 2014, and was resurrected again in 2018. After initially being conceived of as a series of events, then later as a full-service bi-annual publication, then later as an electronic-only publication, and in other iterations as just an annual symposium, the mission, vision, and goals of the AULPB have varied in the last 17 years since its founding. In the 2024–25 academic year, the AULPB hosted a Spring symposium in the final week of classes, but otherwise did not publish blogs or engage its membership.

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During the 2025-2026 academic year, the publication went through a modernized restoration process. AULPB has a new website and socials, new endeavors such as the Amicus Project, new blog posts, and a Symposium, in addition to increased membership and expanded Editorial Board positions.