Updated ABA Law School Accreditation Standards [ ONLINE DEGREE ]

ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Memorandum on Adoption and Implementation of Revised Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools, Criteria for Accepting Credit for Student Study at a Foreign Institution, and Criteria for Summer and Intersession Programs Offered by ABA-Approved Law Schools in a Location Outside of the United States (Aug. 31, 2016): 


Standard 304: Simulations Courses, Law Clinics, and Field Placement 

Standard 305: Other Academic Study 

Standard 307(a): Studies, Activities, and Field Placements Outside the United States 

At its meeting in March 2016, the Council endorsed changes to the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools. The progressions had been flowed for Notice and Comment and an open hearing was hung on January 29, 2016. The accompanying changed Standards and Rules of Procedure got to be successful upon simultaneous by the ABA House of Delegates at its meeting on August 8-9, 2016: 

Elucidation 311-1: Academic Program and Academic Calendar 

Joined are a clarification of the progressions, a redlined form of the altered Standards, a redlined duplicate of the progressions to the Criteria for Accepting Credit for Student Study at a Foreign Institution, and the new Criteria for Summer and Intersession Programs Offered by ABA-Approved Law Schools in a Location Outside of the United States.

At its meeting on June 3-4, 2016, the Council endorsed the joined Criteria for Summer and Intersession Programs Offered by ABA-Approved Law Schools in a Location Outside of the United States ["Revised Criteria"], which replaces the Criteria for Approval of Foreign Summer and Intersession Programs Established by ABA-Approved Law Schools ["Current Criteria"] of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools. Moreover, the Council affirmed changes to the Criteria for Accepting Credit for Student Study at a Foreign Institution at its meeting in August 2016. These progressions got to be viable at the end of the ABA Annual Meeting on August 9, 2016.