State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Education
Jul. 24, 2020
We should applaud the changes to the California bar
In less than ideal circumstances with a global pandemic in the background, the California Supreme Court and State Bar worked diligently to come up with a compromise that works for the state, consumers, bar applicants, and law schools.
Kevin R. Johnson
Kevin is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Professor of Chicana/o Studies
UC Davis School of Law
Phone: (530) 752-8047
Harvard Univ Law School
The global pandemic has changed all our lives. And it made the July 2020 administration of the California bar exam -- in large venues filled to capacity across the state -- a public health impossibility.
After several months of emergency deliberations, uncertainty for recent law graduates, and advocacy by bar applicants, law deans and others, the California Supreme Court announced a reasonable, responsible and creative testing alter...
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