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2017

Legal Education

Journal

Washington and Lee University School of Law

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A Blueprint For A Fairer Aba Standard For Judging Law Graduates’ Competence: How A Standard Based On Students’ Scores In Relation To The National Mean Mbe Score Properly Balances Consumer Safety With Increased Diversity In The Bar, William Wesley Patton Sep 2017

A Blueprint For A Fairer Aba Standard For Judging Law Graduates’ Competence: How A Standard Based On Students’ Scores In Relation To The National Mean Mbe Score Properly Balances Consumer Safety With Increased Diversity In The Bar, William Wesley Patton

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Current and recently proposed American Bar Association (ABA) standards regarding students’ bar passage rates have a significant disparate impact on states that have adopted difficult bar examination passage standards (the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE cut scores). Many scholars have demonstrated that the ABA bar passage standards have a negative impact on diversity in the bar by discouraging law schools from enrolling large numbers of minority students, who have, traditionally, performed below state mean in passage rates on the exam. This study presents a new and supplemental standard for the ABA to use in monitoring student outcome measures and law schools’ …

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Tribute To Professor Sally Wiant, Laura N. Gasaway, James Heller, Ann Maclean Massie, Brian C. Murchison, Caroline L. Osborne, Christopher B. Seaman, Joan Shaughnessy, Joseph A. Ulrich, Christopher Wolf Apr 2017

Tribute To Professor Sally Wiant, Laura N. Gasaway, James Heller, Ann Maclean Massie, Brian C. Murchison, Caroline L. Osborne, Christopher B. Seaman, Joan Shaughnessy, Joseph A. Ulrich, Christopher Wolf

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Tribute To Professor Margaret Howard, Neil P. Olack, Geoffrey L. Berman, Eric D. Chapman, Shane Vandenberg, Joshua A.T. Fairfield, Lois R. Lupica, Ann Maclean Massie, Denise Neary, Nancy B. Rapoport, Charles J. Tabb, Eugene R. Wedoff, Robin Fretwell Wilson Apr 2017

Tribute To Professor Margaret Howard, Neil P. Olack, Geoffrey L. Berman, Eric D. Chapman, Shane Vandenberg, Joshua A.T. Fairfield, Lois R. Lupica, Ann Maclean Massie, Denise Neary, Nancy B. Rapoport, Charles J. Tabb, Eugene R. Wedoff, Robin Fretwell Wilson

Washington and Lee Law Review

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