Friday, March 07, 2025
Through the good offices of A's late law partner Diane Bosse I find myself a member of a site visit team for the American Bar Association's Law School Accreditation Committee. Along with six others I'll be spending a very busy few days at a school which I am not going to identify reviewing whether the school continues to meet the standards set by the ABA. Over the summer I went to the training, which was kind of overwhelming. I expect the visit will be more so. At the training we were told that the accreditation criteria for diversity, equity and inclusion were under review as a consequence of recent Supreme Court jurisprudence (Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ) and "recent Executive Orders and the Department of Education’s “Dear Colleague” letter dated February 14, 2025." We are presently advised that our team will not be reporting on the school's DEI efforts.
Naturally, I have thoughts, but my thoughts are not relevant to the assignment I accepted. However, I will say that in my view it is entirely inappropriate for Attorney General Pam Bondi to threaten to have the ABA's accreditation authority pulled if it doesn't scrap DEI standards outright.
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