The American Bar Association’s monopoly over the accreditation of U.S. law schools has long been defended as essential to maintaining excellence in the legal profession. As the sole federally recognized accreditor whose approval is required for bar eligibility in nearly every state in the country, the ABA exercises monolithic influence over legal education and, by extension, the judiciary and the bar. But this authority rests on an implicit premise of institutional neutrality, a premise that no longer holds — if it ever did at all.
In our work to secure a high-quality, value-neutral education for every American student from preschool through graduate school, Defending Education has recently released a report identifying the myriad ways that the American Bar Association is unfit to continue in its role of overseeing American legal education.
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