Tuesday, February 15, 2022
ABA Approves Obligatory Bias Coaching Starting In Fall 2022 By 95%/5% Vote
Reuters, U.S. Regulation College students to Obtain Anti-Bias Coaching After ABA Passes New Rule:
The American Bar Affiliation would require legislation colleges to teach college students about bias, racism and cross-cultural competency, presumably as quickly as the subsequent educational yr.
The ABA’s Home of Delegates on Monday permitted modifications to its legislation faculty accreditation requirements, together with a mandate that legislation colleges present bias coaching when college students started their authorized research and not less than as soon as extra earlier than they graduate. Nobody spoke in opposition to the modifications and so they had been overwhelmingly adopted by the ABA policymaking physique.
Prior TaxProf Weblog protection:
- ABA Mulls Racism, Bias Coaching Accreditation Requirement For Regulation Faculties (Could 6, 2021)
- ABA Sends Proposed Modifications To Accreditation Requirements Out For Discover And Remark (Could 18, 2021)
- Leiter Questions ABA’s Proposed Accreditation Requirements Relating To Racism, Bias Coaching (June 6, 2021)
- Monday Is The Final Day To Submit Feedback On ABA’s Proposal To Mandate Racism And Bias Coaching At All Regulation Faculties (June 26, 2021)
- Peltz-Steele, Sander, Steinbuch & Volokh Criticize ABA’s Proposed Accreditation Commonplace On Range (June 29, 2021)
- ABA Requirements Committee Approves Anti-Racism, Bias Coaching As New Accreditation Requirements For Regulation Faculties (Aug. 17, 2021)
- In Response To Criticism, ABA Releases Revised Proposed Range Accreditation Commonplace For Discover And Remark (Nov. 23, 2021)
- Regulation College students Face Obligatory Bias Coaching Starting In Fall 2022 Underneath Proposed ABA Range Accreditation Requirement (Feb. 7, 2022)
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