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33 Syllabus 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus33 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 33, Number I February 2002 YmrcnBLLABUdAmsinst h a American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Message from the Chairperson Jerry VandeWalle Happy New Year! As a result of the change in schedule of the Section's publications this is my first opportunity to write as Chair. I acknowledge Diane Yu for the superb year she gave us as Chair. Diane's knowledge of the Section activities, her upbeat manner of resolving prob- lems and her talent for including all the players energized all of us. Diane did this without a hitch, notwith- standing a change in careers and a move from Missouri to New York. Diane is a tough act to follow but I will try to adopt her quali- ties. Thanks Diane for a job very well done! I also thank the members who left the Council. Bob Walsh, for- mer Chair of the Council and of several of its important commit- tees, Herma Hill Kay, our secre- tary, law student member Rodney Bullard, and Bill Rakes, former member of the Council and our choice to serve on the Board of Governors as a repre- sentative of the Section, and who was named the liaison to the Section from the Board of Governors. They were good, faithful Council members whose wisdom we will often recall. We welcome our new members, Sara Davies, of Evansville, Indiana, a public member, Dean Judith Areen of Georgetown, and Eric Besch of Frederick, Maryland, the law student member, as well as Armando Lasa-Ferrer of Puerto Rico, the new liaison from the Board of Governors. The Council met in a retreat and orientation session in Chicago in October. Our meeting was overshadowed by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Although the retreat is not a scheduled business meeting of the Council, we adopted a policy, ratified at the December meeting in New Orleans, authorizing law schools, if they choose, to give appropriate academic credit to a student called to active military duty in the middle of a law school term and who is unable to complete that term. We were quickly immersed in the business of the Section by the time we met in New Orleans December 1 and 2. The Standards Review Committee chaired by Dean Rudy Hasl of Seattle University reported on several standards including dis- tance education, weekend pro- grams and residency issues and branch and satellite campuses. You will read and hear more about these proposals and your opportunity for comment in other articles in the Syllabus and in notices from the Consultant's office. The Standards Review Committee recommendations to the Council are significant and I ask you to read the proposals carefully and respond thoughtful- ly to them. The Council also heard a report on the progress of the work of the Task Force on Accreditation Processes chaired by Tom Sullivan, Dean of Minnesota and Chair-Elect of the Council. This group, too, has made substantial progress and will be making rec- Continued on page 19 INSIDE: 4 MJP Interim Report Released for Comment 5Foreign Legal Education Conference Wrap-up Proposed Revisions to Standards

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