The
American Bar Association body that accredits law schools voted on
Friday to tighten the bar exam-passage standard that schools must meet
in order to get the organization’s accreditation blessing. The ABA’s
Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
overwhelmingly decided to strengthen its bar pass standard for
accredited law schools—a long-debated move proponents said is necessary
to ensure law schools don’t admit students unlikely of passing the
all-important attorney licensing exam.
The
council voted for the stricter standard over the opposition of
diversity advocates who warned that schools with large numbers of
minority students could lose their accreditation and that the stricter
rule would prompt schools to admit fewer minority students. That, in
turn, would exacerbate the legal profession’s longstanding diversity
problem, they argued.Article here (via taxprof blog).
