TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 21, 2025

The American Bar Association (ABA) is suspending enforcement of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mandate for law schools, Bloomberg Law reports. The ABA says it is taking the action to comply with recent messaging from the U.S. Department of Education that schools must comply with new presidential directives by Feb. 28 or lose federal funding. Last fall, the ABA had proposed a change to the standard and the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar was expected to review comments on the proposal at its most recent meeting. Bloomberg reported yesterday that law schools, including Vanderbilt Law School, had started removing DEI language from their websites.