California Law is Changing

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by JDLLM2, Jul 3, 2006.

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  1. JDLLM2

    JDLLM2 member

    In addition to Senate Bill 1568 which does the following:

    "6046.7. (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
    Committee of Bar Examiners shall adopt rules that shall be effective
    on and after January 1, 2008 for the regulation and oversight of
    unaccredited law schools"

    "(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the committee
    shall adopt rules that shall be effective on and after January 1,
    2008, for the regulation and oversight of nonlaw school legal
    programs leading to a juris doctor (J.D.) degree, bachelor of laws
    (LL.B.) degree, or other law study degree"

    and which will result in the elimination of ulitimately most
    correspondence law schools exept for a few, like Nortwestern
    California and William Howard Taft and will result in the elimination of the so called non-bar J.D. since law schools
    will be run by the committee that oversees admission to practice
    law which is what a Juris Doctor degree is for.

    NOW COMES AB2810:

    This gives the BPPVE an extenstion of time to operate
    while California works on completely overhauls the
    way it allows schools to operate in California.

    Of course with passage of the aforementioned bill, all non-ABA
    law schools will be "approved" to operate if not accredited by
    the State Bar.

    This bill will tighten up the requirements of issuing licenses
    to operate a degree-granting University within California
    and it is about time, The BPPVE never did their job right.

    Since California can not do the job right it should require
    all schools "state approved" to have to have DETC or WASC
    accreditation within 5 years in order to continue to operate.

    The State Bar with the bill should require correspondence
    law schools to become DETC accredited with 3 years and then after another 5 years become State Bar accredited if they meet
    the requirement.

    This would be a good solution to degree mills in California.
     

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