After several years and as many false starts, an ABA committee has for the time being given up trying to improve upon the existing bar exam requirements in the law…
Students of color, particularly boys, are suspended and expelled at alarming rates, and zero-tolerance school discipline polices fail the communities they serve, said speakers on an panel sponsored by various…
The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar got an earful of feedback this week on its latest proposed changes to the law…
The parents of a gifted Florida ninth-grader don’t have a right to decide which algebra class he should be assigned to, a state court judge ruled last year.
The father of a 7-year-old boy suspended from school for two days last year for chewing a breakfast toaster pastry into the shape of a gun did not protest the…
The ABA should create a task force or a commission to undertake an in-depth examination of law school price and funding issues, an ABA task force says.
The University of Kansas School of Law has been publicly censured and fined $50,000 for admitting two students into a new LLM degree program without the ABA’s prior approval and…
Northwestern University School of Law has received a $15 million gift from university trustee and law school alumnus Neil Bluhm and his family’s charitable foundation.
A Colorado school that suspended a 6-year-old boy for kissing a classmate has agreed to change the school record so his conduct won’t be labeled “sexual harassment.”
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