Law professors warned that proposal would encourage illegal race discrimination
Aaron Sibarium August 10, 2022
The American Bar Association on Monday axed a proposal to require law schools to "diversify" their student bodies after more than a year of warnings from law professors that the plan would force schools to violate federal law.
The proposal, first released in May 2021, would have required law schools to submit annual progress reports on minority enrollment to the American Bar Association. Law schools that failed to boost the enrollment of "underrepresented groups" would have been at risk of losing their accreditation.
The proposal underwent three rounds of revisions before finally being
withdrawn by the association’s house of delegates, which did not rule
out revisiting the proposal at a later date. An early draft had warned
that U.S. anti-discrimination laws were "not a justification" for
"non-compliance" with the diversity standard, a line that drew criticism
from many in the legal community, including from elite universities.............To Read More....
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