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The Massachusetts School of Law (also known as MSLAW) is a law school located in Andover, Massachusetts. The school was founded in 1988 and claims that its design and curriculum were influenced by the medical school educational model and legal scholars.〔LAW SCHOOL FOR THE WHITE AND WEALTHY Michael L. Coyne - The National Law Journal, April 11, 2011 – 2011 ALM Media Properties LLC〕〔FAILING LAW SCHOOLS (Chicago Series in Law and Society) Brian Z. Tamanaha – Chicago Series in Law and Society – pub June 15, 2012〕 MSLAW focuses on professional skills training and its advocacy program has won awards at national advocacy competitions. The National Jurist’s ''PreLaw Magazine'' recognized MSLAW for its effectiveness at experiential training.〔BEST SCHOOLS FOR PRACTICAL TRAINING Mike Stetz A National Jurist Publication - Spring 2014 Volume 17, No. 4 (p.36-43) http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/prelaw_2014spring/#/42〕 The MSLAW bar passage rate for February 2015 was 43.4% for first time takers, compared to a Massachusetts State Average of 66.7%. 〔http://www.mass.gov/courts/court-info/sjc/attorneys-bar-applicants/bbe/bar-exam-results-post-bar-info/〕 In 25 years, fully 82% (2,589 students) of MSLAW graduates who have taken the Massachusetts bar exam have ultimately passed it, with most graduates passing the bar examination on the first or second administration of that examination. Unlike law schools accredited by the American Bar Association, MSLAW does not report employment outcomes for its graduates. MSLAW also does not consider LSAT scores in its admission process. ==Accreditation== The Massachusetts School of Law is currently unaccredited by the American Bar Association,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/in_alphabetical_order.html )〕 but is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). In 1990, the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education authorized MSL to grant the Juris Doctor degree. MSLAW subsequently applied for American Bar Association approval while filing an action in Federal Court in Philadelphia challenging some of the ABA's accreditation standards, arguing that those standards are of questionable educational value, violate antitrust laws, and needlessly increase tuition costs. MSLAW refused to comply with these standards, and the ABA refused to approve the school. As a result of its actions the MSLAW and Department of Justice filed complaints against the ABA for antitrust violations. The summary judgment dismissing the MSLAW complaint on immunity grounds was granted to the ABA on the trial level and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed in (107 F.3d 1026 ). The case brought by DOJ was later settled by way of a consent decree between the ABA and the United States Department of Justice in which the ABA agreed to reform its accreditation process and eliminate some of its law school accreditation standards that violated antitrust laws and were outdated.〔United States v. American Bar Association, U.S. District Court (D.C.) http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f1000/1034.htm〕 〔"Justice Department and American Bar Association Resolve Charges That the ABA's Process for Accrediting Law Schools was Misused"〕 Among the standards used in that process were several related to student-faculty ratio. Under its standards in effect at that time, the ABA refused to count most of MSLAW’s full-time professors who also maintained a relationship with a law firm or who continued to practice law, or any of MSLAW's 85 adjunct faculty members in computing its student-faculty ratio (a standard that has since been changed as a result of the Department of Justice's antitrust action against the American Bar Association). Many of its graduates now practice law throughout New England and California. The school continues to criticize ABA standards that it fails to meet, and encourages the Department of Education to strip the ABA of its authority over other law schools. On December 4, 2006, Massachusetts School of Law officials asked a Department of Education committee to limit the authority of the ABA, complaining that the ABA's process was harmful to minorities and low-income students and needlessly drove up the cost of legal education. This action followed the publication of a DoE report that was critical of accrediting agencies for being overly concerned about financial and procedural issues and inadequately concerned about the school's success at educating its graduates. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Massachusetts School of Law」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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