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40 Syllabus 1 (2008-2009)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus40 and id is 1 raw text is: YL.-.LABU American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar From the Chairperson and the ABA Consultant By Randy Hertz, Incoming Section Chairperson, and Hulett H. Askew, ABA Consultant on Legal Education Huie11 H. AsKew t has been a very eventful sum- mer for the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar-and, more broadly, for all who are concerned with legal education and bar admissions. Enactment of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008 On August 14, President Bush signed into law the College Op- portunity and Affordability Act of 2008 (HR 4137). The legislation was passed by Congress on July 31, 2008, on votes of 380 to 49 in the House of Representatives, and 83 to 8 in the Senate. Of particular interest to legal educators, law students, and public interest law offices are provisions designed to ease the debt burden on legal services lawyers, public defenders, and prosecutors. Section 431, which is entitled Loan Repayment for Civil Legal Assistance Attorneys and has an expressly stated pur- pose.., to encourage qualified individuals to enter and continue employment as civil legal assis- tance attorneys, amends Title IV of the Higher Education Act (Student Assistance Programs) to direct the U.S. Secretary of Edu- cation to carry out a program of assuming the obligation to repay a student loan, by direct pay- ments on behalf of a borrower to the holder of such loan, for bor- rowers who remain employed as a civil legal assistance attorney for a required period of service of not less than three years, unless involuntarily separated from that employment, and who are not in default on a loan for which the borrower seeks repayment. Sec- tion 952, which is entitled Loan Repayment for Prosecutors and Defenders and has the expressly stated purpose ... to encour- age qualified individuals to enter Continued on page 15 Charlotte School of Law and Elon University School of Law Receive Provisional Approval tits June 7, 2008, meeting, Athe Council of the Section of Legal Education and Ad- missions to the Bar determined, upon the recommendation of the Accreditation Committee, to grant provisional approval to Charlotte School of Law and Elon University School of Law. This action brings the total num- ber of ABA-approved law schools in the nation to 200. Charlotte School of Law was founded in 2004 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a mem- ber institution of InfiLaw LLC, a consortium of independent law schools. Its mission is to provide a legal education that is student-cen- tered; facilitates practice readiness; Continued on page 19 INSIDE 4 Proposed Deletion of Interpretations 402-1, 402-2 1 2 2009-2009 Council 1 3 Rennard Strickland Receives Kutak Award Ranay Hertz Volume 40, Number 1 Fall 2008

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