TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Jan 2, 2024

An American Bar Association (ABA) proposal to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty is garnering widespread support, reports Reuters. The change under consideration by the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar would require law schools to hire full-time legal writing instructors and other untenured full-time faculty on five-year “presumptively renewable long-term contracts.” The ABA developed the proposal at the urging of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute, and has received more than 30 public comments in support of the change. The public comment period ends Jan. 8.