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The American Bar Association House of Delegates has concurred with the ABA’s legal education council to increase the distance education limits so a law school may grant a student up to 50% of the credit hours required for a J.D. degree via distance education.
Approved amendments also remove the limit of 10 credit hours via distance education during the first one-third of a student’s legal education.
Resolution 301 makes amendments to Definitions 7 and 8; Standards 105, 306, 311 and 511; and Rule 24 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools.
According to an executive summary of the resolution, the changes were made to match the U.S. Department of Education’s limits on distance education without accreditor approval, as well as to enable law schools to offer more credits through distance education and reduce the number of substantive change applications reviewed by the legal education council.
Changes also include removing the reference to certificates in Standard 105 and Rule 24.
The House of Delegates approved the resolution during its two-day annual meeting that began Aug. 2 in Denver.
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