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3 Legal Educ. Newsl. 1 (1971-1972)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus3 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 3, Number 1, October, 1971 Published by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar American Bar Association MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN This promises to be a very important year for us. I look forward to the challenges that it will present and trust that we on the Council can, with the support of members of the Section and other interested lawyers, help the Association make an important contribution to legal education. The work of the Special Committee on Standards under the chairmanship of Richard W. Nahstoll of Portland, Oregon, is nearly complete. My examination of the draft leads me to believe that the proposed restatement of the American Bar Association Criteria for Legal Education will permit the Association to take an important step forward. All members of the Section will be furnished with a copy of the Committee's draft late this year. I ask you to review it and send us your observations and suggestions so that the Council may take these into account when we review the committee's report in early February. We need to decide in the spring what should be placed before the Section for its approval in August in San Francisco. Between the February meeting and the August Section meeting hearings will be held on the proposal. The dramatic increase in the number of applicants to law schools and the implications of this for legal education and for the profession will continue to concern the Council. The February Newsletter describes last fall's situation and Maximilian W. Kempner in his Chairman's Message in the June Newsletter indicates some of the issues posed by this development. I invite members of the Section to send me any observations you may have on this problem and any suggestions you would care to offer as to how the Council and the Association might respond to this situation. A new activity that we will inaugurate this year is the Dean's Workshop. It will be held during the mid-winter meeting in New Orleans. This promises to become an important contribution to legal education; I have high hopes for it. When any of you have some thoughts that you would like to share with me and the Council concerning legal education, I would be very pleased to receive them. Edward W. Kuhn WORKSHOP FOR DEANS A one-day workshop for deans will be presented by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar during the mid-winter meeting of the American Bar Association in New Orleans in February 1972. Believing that there is a substantial interest on the part of a large number of deans in having an opportunity to discuss the more important common problems of legal education and administration, the Council decided to organize and host this one-day workshop. While specific plans are still to be made, the first workshop will emphasize the concerns of the deans of new and emerging law schools and of new deans. A portion of the program will utilize the format of a background statement with a discussion leader and several commentators; however, an effort will be made to structure the program so as to leave time for the discussion of those subjects that the participants especially want to discuss. Dean Harold G. Reuschlein of Villanova University and Professor Millard H. Ruud, the ABA's Consultant on Legal Education, have assumed responsibility for planning the workshop; they would appreciate receiving any suggestions concerning format and subject matter. ABA-NCBE STATEMENT ON THE DIPLOMA PRIVILEGE At its meetings in July in New York City, the Board of Managers of the National Conference of Bar Examiners and the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved a joint statement on the diploma privilege prepared by a committee of the Council composed of Thomas H. Adams, E. Marshall Thomas, and Dean Samuel D. Thurman and a committee of the NCBE composed of Fred G. Francis, Stanley G. Faulk, and Robert A. Sprecher. This statement reaffirms the position adopted in 1921 by the American Bar Association that the graduation from a law school should not confer the right of admission to the Bar, and that every candidate be subjected to an examination by public authority to determine his fitness. This statement urges that public authority should not dictate curriculum content by examination but by examination should determine that the (continued on page 2)

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