Legal Commentary

As Paul Caron recently reported (here), the ABA has proposed a number of changes to its law-school-accreditation standards.  The proposed new Chapter 3, regarding "student learning outcomes", might be of the greatest interest to law teachers.  Dan Filler endorses the "assessment of student learning" aspect of the proposal here, but what about the rest of it?  For example, what will it mean, in practice, to require (see proposed Standard 307) law schools to "ensure that all students have reasonably comparative opportunities to take advantage of the school's educational program, co-curricular programs, and other educational benefits"?  What about the list of required "learning outcomes" (See proposed Standard 302)?  What are the implications, in practice, of requiring that law schools not "continue the enrollment of a student whose inability to do satisfactory work is sufficiently manifest such that it is not probable that the student will successfully complete the course of study at the law school and be admitted to the bar" (proposed Standard 306)?  And so on.  I guess we'll see . . .

Any thoughts?