Dean comes out swinging and defends accreditation ABA-style

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Law school dean Frank T Read spoke out at the Assn of American Law Schools convention in Jan, condemning the American Bar Assn's settlement of an anti- trust suit regarding accreditation practices. Read, a former deputy consultant to the ABA on legal education, claims the consent decree will lower education quality and law professor pay and transfer regulation from thsoe who understand legal education to the Justice Dept and the ABA's House of Delegates. Other speakers at the AALS convention disagreed.

A.B.A. Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Committee on Accreditation

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Former dean of St. John's sues ABA over accreditation fracas

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Patrick J. Rohan, former dean of St. John's University School of Law, has sued the ABA for violation of his civil rights and interference with business relationships. The suit stems from an ABA inspection of the law school in 1990, a part of the accreditation process. Unhappy faculty members wrote to the ABA prior to the organization's on-site visit, and Rohan claimed these letters were kept secret, denying him the opportunity to counter their allegations.

Management, Deans (in schools), Deans (Education), St. John's University. School of Law

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Dean Velvel: the ABA hasn't met the terms of its consent decree

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The Massachussetts School of Law's Dean Lawrence R Velvel hopes to block ratification of the US Department of Justice's consent decree with the American Bar Association. Announced June 27, 1995, the decree resolved a federal antitrust suit filed the same day concerning the ABA's accreditation practices. The Justice Department wants the agreement approved, but Velvel claims the ABA has left in place the people who promote anticompetitive actions.

Antitrust law, A.B.A.

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