THE AMERICAN BAR Association won’t be making its final call on a controversial plan to tighten law school accreditation standards when it meets in San Francisco this week. But the proposal was a hot topic at last week’s Atlanta meeting of the National Bar Association, the nation’s largest minority bar.
Spurred by U.S. Department of Education concerns about the ABA’s accreditation procedures, the proposal would establish bright-line rules on bar passage rates schools need to maintain accreditation. Minority bar groups, civil rights lawyers and law school professors and deans have complained that the proposal will stymie law schools’ attempts to increase racial diversity and jeopardize the status of schools with special missions.
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