Law-School Accreditor Gets Limited Renewal

An affiliate of the American Bar Association has won renewal of its responsibility for accrediting law schools, but a panel of the Department of Education put it on a short leash, citing the accreditor's new policies on racial diversity at law schools.

The bar association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will be recognized as sole accreditor of American law schools for the next 18 months, rather than for five years, the standard usually agreed to by

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