TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 5, 2020

Harvard Law School will push all of its classes online for the fall 2020 term because of concerns that testing and monitoring for the coronavirus will not be fully available by that point. Stanford Law School plans to have a mix of in-person and online classes for the fall. Many other law schools are still developing plans for the fall, the ABA Journal reports. Yale and The University of Chicago expect to announce decisions this summer. The journal also reports that law students interested in taking the bar exam in North Carolina will assume all risk of exposure to or infection by the virus simply by signing up for the exam. Above the Law reports that Virginia has taken a similar step. But the language in both cases is posted online, which has led legal commentators to wonder if it is enforceable. The state of Mississippi earlier announced a waiver requirement for its bar exam.