ABA Claims It Lacks Authority To Stop Proliferation Of Law Schools. And...
About a week ago, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to the American Bar Association, essentially asking the organization to explain its lack of institutional control over law schools. Well,...
View ArticleBecause Cooley Law Really Needs Another Campus
Boasting four campuses and more than 15,000 graduates in Michigan isn’t enough for Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The nation’s #2 law school needs MOAR CAMPUSES (and unemployed graduates). So, yet...
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Law School Accreditation: What Is To Be Done?
Critics of the current legal-education model, including my colleague Elie Mystal, have accused the American Bar Association of failing to uphold sufficiently stringent accreditation standards....
View ArticleTo Stop the ABA, Do We Need to Allow Everybody to Start a Law School?
I’m really enjoying the newfound interest from the New York Times about the state of legal education. Times reporter David Segal seems genuinely interested in recording the growing tragedy of American...
View ArticleRevenge Is Best Served… Quickly: ABA DENIES Accreditation To School That...
Over the weekend, the New York Times unleashed a feature article about the role of the American Bar Association in keeping the cost of legal education absurdly high. The school profiled in that article...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 01.04.12
* The recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB could get tricky — not because Republicans are outraged by recess appointments (much like Democrats are outraged by obstructionist...
View ArticleATL Readers to ABA: Enforce Stricter Standards
Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.” In contrast, Thomas Jefferson School of Law does not tremble before the...
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Can A Law School Force You To Be Racially Sensitive?
Is it right for a law school to send its students to tolerance camp? Mandatory tolerance camp? Mandatory tolerance camp, where unexcused absences will result in an intolerant notation placed in...
View ArticleAnother Law School Sued, But This Time With Allegations of ‘Negligent...
We’ve previously written about all of the problems that have befallen Duncan School of Law’s hopes for provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association. With motions pending in Duncan Law’s...
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The American Bar Association Will Have An Online Law School Guy As Its Top...
It’s not clear the ABA can pass the LSAT. Their logical reasoning for picking a new legal education czar seems weak. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags:...
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Accreditation Recommended for UMass Law
Umass Law moves one step closer to accreditation… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: ABA, ABA Accreditation Committee, Accreditation, American Bar...
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Quote of the Day: Guys In My High School Used To Think Law School...
Calling a law school’s accreditation into question is really just a “minor mistake”… Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: ABA Accreditation Committee,...
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