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7 Legal Educ. Newsl 1 (1976)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus7 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume VII, Number 1, July 1976 Published by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the B~r MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN In addition to conducting its vital accreditation of law schools function, the Section this past year activated and expanded its work in other areas. Committee Chairmen met with the Council in October, 1975 to discuss their plans for the year. Although re- grettably budgetary restrictions prevented most Committees from having formal meetings, important progress was made through cor- respondence and telephone conversations. In addition, a stimulating and productive workshop for law school inspectors was held in December in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Associa- tion of American Law Schools. The Section also sponsored a workshop for deans of accredited law schools at the ABA Midyear Meeting. Some of the Committee activities were as follows: Archives. Past Section Chairman Thomas H. Adams devoted many hours at the American Bar Center reviewing the old Section files, most of which had been stored in cardboard boxes. He culled the files, categorized them by schools, and began the process of shelving the important documents by school on the shelves in the Cromwell Library. It is anticipated the project will be completed during the coming year. Accreditation. In August, the House of Delegates granted full approval to Pepperdine University School of Law, and provisional approval to the Delaware Law School and Nova University Center for the Study of Law. There now are 164 ABA approved law schools, 13 of which are provisionally approved; 163 offer the J.D. degree program; the other approved school is the U. S. Judge Advocate General's School, which offers a graduate LL.M. degree program only. Four applications for provisional approval are pending. Fully approved law schools are reinspected routinely every seven years; 29 such inspections were conducted this past year. Provisionally approved schools are reinspected annually, and all 13 schools were reinspected during the year. In addition, each of the four schools seeking ABA Copyright © 1976 American Bar Association

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