A broad-ranging and growing progressive movement in American legal education and higher education is upending and reforming policies and practices in pursuit of increasing diversity in student bodies, as The Epoch Times reported recently.
In the legal education sector, the movement is one in which some of the most prestigious law schools, and the American Bar Association (ABA), which accredits the nation’s law schools, are aligned.
And the coalition pushing the change has been chalking up wins.
A bicyclist walks by Langdell Hall, the Harvard Law Library, on the campus of the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in a file photo. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
But there is also strong pushback to the progressive agenda, with conservative and traditional-oriented advocacy organizations—and like-minded legal scholars and lawyers—asserting that what is happening in legal education is evidence of critical merit and competency being drastically and profoundly devalued in America, and freedom of speech being suppressed….