TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 24, 2025

A proposal from the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is facing pushback from law school deans. The ABA Journal reports that proposed changes to Accreditation Standards 303, 304 and 311 would double the required number of experiential learning credits from six to 12. The section’s council has received 343 pages of comments on the proposal, most of which were in opposition. Concerns centered on the cost of creating the classes, the overall impact on tuition, and the lack of flexibility within the curriculum, including how part-time students would be able to meet the requirements. Writing in support of the change was the Clinical Legal Education Association, the Society of American Law Teachers and one professor emerita. The council will consider the input at its next meeting set for Aug. 21-23.