Comments on ABA's Proposed Revision to Law School Standard 206...
American Bar Association not ready to make changes to law school accreditation standards for diversity in light of SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case...
"would require law schools to adopt policies protecting the free-speech rights of faculty, staff, and students"...
“Their recruiting departments are probably pretty well educated on this already. It’s more of a matter of convincing partners.”...
"The LSAT rule has been a source of heated debate for years, but the latest push to abolish it began in early 2022."...
"We know that education was significantly disrupted by the pandemic, and that the effects of the pandemic were significantly worse for Black Americans and other historically marginalized communities"...
Law professors call the widely respected IHRA definition deleted by the ABA "an invaluable educational tool for understanding how Jews experience antisemitism today" ...
"It first attempted to get rid of the admission test rule in 2018 but backed off when it became clear that the House of Delegates would not go along with the plan."...
"The LSAT, or the Law School Admission Test, tests analytical reasoning, logic and reading comprehension."...
LIF finds itself in the unusual position of complimenting the ABA for its resolution; will ABA cave the way Harvard Dean Elmendorf did?...
I'm quoted in an article in The Epoch Times on today’s legal education culture war: “[ABA] decisions should be based solely on academic criteria and how we best train lawyers, not how we best train lawyers who follow a particular ideology.”...
There’s no indication so far that Hofstra did anything wrong, besides hiring too few non-white people and too few female adjunct faculty....
PA’s Disciplinary Board appealed to Third Circuit after district court enjoined Rule 8.4(g) as an unconstitutional encroachment on free speech....
ABA files amicus brief in pending case testing legality of a Pennsylvania professional conduct rule muzzling lawyers’ supposedly offensive speech, clearly intended to mandate adherence to leftist race and other politics....
Law school deans and LIF head William Jacobson all oppose dropping the LSAT/GRE as making it harder for schools to identify qualified applicants, minority or other. Is that why ABA wants to get rid of it?...
"after more than a year of warnings from law professors that the plan would force schools to violate federal law"...
The complaint letter charges CUNY Law discriminates against students, faculty, other employees, and prospective students, faculty, and employees, and that the law school faculty’s recently-adopted BDS policy puts the school out of compliance with ABA req'ts. Meanwhile, NYC Council Higher Ed Committee grills CUNY over...
