National Law Journal:
Northwestern University is leading a charge to revamp certain employment criteria by which a council of the American Bar Association decides which U.S. law schools are accredited.
Outgoing Northwestern University President Henry Bienen in January sent a letter to 35 other university presidents, provosts and chancellors whose institutions have law schools asking them to sign a statement that urges the ABA’s Council on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar to stop stipulating employment terms at law schools . . .