We previously have blogged (links below) the American Law Deans Association’s challenge to the ABA’s authority to use its accreditation power to require tenure or long-term contracts for deans, faculty, clinical faculty, legal writing instructors, and law library directors.  Recent developments:

• Law Deans Criticize Their Accreditor, by Doug Lederman (Inside Higher Ed)
• Law Deans Deans Association Criticizes ABA Accreditation Standards, by David Bernstein (The Volokh Conspiracy)
• Bernstein on the Law Deans, Tenure, and the ABA, by Josh Wright (Truth on the Market)
• Reluctance To Call Required Preferences Required Preferences, by Josh Rosenberg (Discriminations)
• The Gatekeeper Effect on Law School Tenure, by Jim Downey (Rants & Raves on Just About Everything)

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• Law Deans’ Association Fights Tenure Requirement (4/3/06)
• More on Law Deans’ Tenure Challenge (4/4/06)