STATE LEGISLATURES NEED TO TERMINATE THE ABA’S ROLE IN ACCREDITATION: Law Students Face Mandatory Bias Training Beginning In Fall 2022 Under Proposed ABA Diversity Accreditation Requirement.

It has become politicized and intrusive.

Related: “Recommended actions that would demonstrate ‘progress…under the Standard’ would include (206-5) ‘Diversity, equity, and inclusion training.’ This raises two concerns. First, there is evidence that such ‘training’ is not effective, and can even be counter-productive. Second, and even more seriously, such training will almost certainly violate the academic freedom rights of faculty at many (probably most) schools by demanding conformity to a particular ideology about ‘diversity,’ its meaning, and its value.”