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State Bar & Bar Associations

Nov. 14, 2019

Regional accreditation of law schools and the Constitution

A California appellate ruling throws into sharp focus the constitutionality of accreditation by regional accreditors such as the of state-accredited law schools.

Stanislaus Pulle

Dean
Southern California Institute of Law at Santa Barbara and Ventura

Stanislaus is a former visiting scholar of the Yale Law School and research fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

A California appellate ruling throws into sharp focus the constitutionality of accreditation by regional accreditors such as the of state-accredited law schools.

On Oct. 28, in a unanimous opinion in Friedman v. Gates et al., G057078, Division 3 of 4th District Court of Appeal held that a city may require candidates for city attorney to ha...

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