Already under scrutiny from the Trump administration and Republican-led states for its law school accreditation standards and political activism, and recently losing its role in vetting judicial nominees, the American Bar Association’s monopoly on legal education looks even more tenuous after dozens of schools shared their “accreditation visit reports.”
The Pacific Legal Foundation said it obtained the reports, spanning 2014 to 2023, under the Freedom of Information Act from 45 of the 50 “best public law schools” in U.S. News and World Report rankings.
They “demonstrate the prevalence of hiring and admissions preferences” on the basis of race and sex in violation of Title VI and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.
“The ABA clearly uses its standards to pressure law schools to unconstitutionally or unlawfully adapt their policies and practices to achieve the ABA’s diversity goals,” and President Trump’s executive orders can’t substitute for a long-term legislative fix, the PLF report states.
The conservative think tank provided a four-part legislative model for accreditation criteria that prohibits requirements and recommendations concerning “student body, faculty, or staff diversity on the basis of race, sex, or national origin,” permits accredited entities to adopt lawful diversity policies and bars accreditor investigations on the basis of such diversity.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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