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27 Syllabus 1 (1996)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus27 and id is 1 raw text is: American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar - Volume XXVII, Number 1 ° Winter 1996
Recodification of Standards
Nears Completion

T he Council of the Section of
Legal Education and Admis-
sions to the Bar, at its Decem-
ber 2-3 meeting, considered the
attached draft of the Recodification
of the ABA Standards for Approval
of Law Schools. The Council adopt-
ed a motion to promulgate the
Recodification Draft for comments
and public hearings. This draft is
being distributed to deans of ABA-
approved law schools, chief justices
of state supreme courts, state boards
of bar examiners, and other con-
stituencies. In addition, the Recodifi-
cation Draft may be found at the Sec-
tion's Web site.
Written comments on the draft are
encouraged, and should be submit-
ted to the Office of the Consultant on
Legal Education to the ABA, James P.
White, at 550 West North Street,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202. Public
hearings on the Recodification Draft
are also being scheduled, at which
time oral and written comments will
be received on the draft. The first
hearing is in conjunction with the
Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Law Schools on Friday,
January 5, 1996, from 3:00 pm to
6:00 pm in the Patio Room of the San
Antonio Menger Hotel. The second
hearing will be in conjunction with
the ABA Midyear Meeting at the Har-
bor Court Hotel on Friday, February
2, from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm. A
third hearing will be held in con-
junction with the ALI Meeting in
Washington on Wednesday, May 15,
from 10:00 am until noon at the
Mayflower Hotel.

It is anticipated that after com-
ments are received and hearings are
held this spring, an updated draft
will be circulated. Based upon com-
ments received to the updated draft,
the Council will finalize the Recodi-
fication Draft at its June 8-9 meeting
in Portland, Maine. The Council
would then adopt a recommendation
to forward the recodified Standards
and Interpretations to the House of
Delegates for final approval at its
August 1996 meeting in Orlando.
History
The Recodification Draft is the
culmination of a three-year effort.
Initially, the Standards Review Com-
mittee appointed a subcommittee to
undertake a formal revision of the
Standards and Interpretations. This
effort was intended to make the lan-
guage of the Standards and Interpre-
tations more uniform and to reexam-
ine the organizational structure of
the Standards and Interpretations.
After this process was well under
way, it was decided that the revision
of the Standards should include not
only a formal recodification, but a
substantive revision as well. Thus,
over the past two years, the Stan-
dards Review Committee has been
drafting both formal and substantive
changes in the Standards and Inter-
pretations.
The most recent Recodification
Draft reflects the provisions of the
Proposed Final Judgment between
the United States Department of Jus-
tice and the American Bar Associa-
tion, and the suggestions of the Spe-

cial Commission to Review the Sub-
stance and Process
of the American Bar Association's
Accreditation of American Law
Schools.
In order to facilitate the examina-
tion of the Recodification Draft,
drafters' notes are included through-
out the document. In addition, after
each subsection of each Standard
and Interpretation, bracketed infor-
mation indicates the source of the
subsection from the current version
of the Standards, or whether the sub-
section is new. Also, a chart is
included that indicates where each
of the subsections of the current ver-
sion of the Standards may be found
in the recodified version.
Highlights
 The format of the Recodifica-
tion Draft contains descriptive
titles for each series of Stan-
dards (e.g., Chapter 3: Program
of Legal Education), and a
descriptive title for each of the
Standards (e.g., Standard 301:
Objectives).
 The recodified version of the
Standards includes a new Pre-
amble that states the basic goals
and purposes of the Standards.
This Preamble follows the rec-
ommendation of the Wahl
Commission found on pages
21-23 of the Wahl Commission
Report.
 Standard 105 is a new standard
that states that before a law
school makes a major change in
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