Comprehensive revisions passed
The ABA House of Delegates passed the comprehensve revisions with “minimal fuss” according to the ABA Journal linked above. One area, however, garnered significant attention and also resulted in an odd, though perhaps meaningless , procedural move. The House voted to send back to the Section on Legal Education for further consideration the comment to standard 305 which prohibits payment to students for credit-based courses.
What does this mean? Law schools which have not already done so must start identifying, articulating publicly and assessing student learning out outcomes, providing every student six credits of clinic or clinic-like experiential courses and requiring students to take two credit hours worth of professional responsibility coursework.
Well, it’s a start……
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Well, lots of news! Although not really. The possibility of students receiving both credit and pay for ex/internships is still out there. And, who knows details of the new clinical requirement? I went to the ABA’s website and was unable to find it. One would expect this to be “big news,” and featured. NOT!