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Education

Mar. 19, 2014

ABA law school panel rejects proposals to weaken professors' tenure

Despite what some see as problems with the existing ABA law school rule on law faculty job security, accreditation overseers voted to reject two proposals to ease or eliminate tenure.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN DIEGO - Rejecting proposals that sparked heated objections from law professors across the country, American Bar Association officials have decided that law schools must continue to offer tenure to at least some professors.


The proposals would have been "like going back to nothing" and would have left at least some faculty without "any more security of position than a one-year...

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