The American Bar Association won’t extend its seal of approval to foreign law schools anytime soon. The ABA’s Council of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar overwhelmingly voted on August 3 to withhold accreditation from law schools outside the United States.
The vote capped four years of debate into whether it makes sense for the ABA to allow overseas law schools that follow the U.S. educational model to apply for accreditation. Those discussions began in 2008 after the Peking University School of Transnational Law founded by former University of Michigan Law School Dean Jeffrey Lehman in 2007 indicated that it would pursue ABA accreditation.
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