Bloomberg, Trump’s DEI Scrutiny Coming to Bar Associations, Law Schools:
Diversity, equity and inclusion programs at bar associations and law schools will be subject to more scrutiny under a second Trump administration.
A new, anti-DEI executive order will open up private sector entities, including state and local bar and medical associations and institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars to up to nine potential civil compliance investigations, according to the Tuesday executive order. …
More than 20 Republican state attorneys general warned the American Bar Association of potential discrimination violations over diversity requirements in the Bar’s law school accreditation system in a June 2023 letter.
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage::
- 21 State AGs Urge ABA To Remove Race-Based Criteria From Law School Accreditation (June 5, 2024)
- 19 State AGs Refute Effort By 21 State AGs To Eliminate ABA’s Race-Based Accreditation Standard (June 21, 2024)
- In Response To Criticism, ABA Legal Ed Council Changes Proposed Accreditation Standards On Diversity, Rights Of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty (Aug. 19, 2024)
- ABA Walks Back Plan To Remove ‘Race And Ethnicity’ From Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard (Nov. 5, 2024)
- 21 State AGs Rebuke ABA For Walking Back Plan To Remove ‘Race And Ethnicity’ From Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard (Jan. 8, 2025)
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