Last week, concerned about all of the bad press law schools have been getting in recent months, Senator Grassley (R, Iowa) sent the ABA a letter asking about its "internal controls" over law schools. The letter contained 31 questions about ABA accreditation, responses to which were due on July 25, 2011. Yesterday (July 20, 2011), the ABA responded with a memorandum from the Accreditation Committee and a cover letter from President Steven N. Zack.
The Accreditation organized the questions into four categories:
1. Scholarship Information (#1-13)
2. Student Borrowing/Debt (#14 & 15)
3. Provisional and Full Approval of Law Schools (#16-24)
4. Governance of the Section (#25-31)
You can find general discussions several places, including:
- ABA News: Zack, ABA Respond to Grassley Inquiry: Schools Aren’t Misleading Scholarship Students
- Above the Law: ABA Claims It Lacks Authority To Stop Proliferation Of Law Schools. And Claims It Doesn’t Matter Anyway.
- Law Librarian Blog: ABA Responds To Senator Grassley
- Renaissance Report: ABA Responds to Senator Grassley
- Wall Street Journal Law Blog: ABA to Senator Grassley: We Share Your Concerns about Law Schools
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