In the late 1980s, law school groups for gay and lesbian students met off campus in case members didn’t want the school community to know their sexual orientation, says Joan Howarth, who started her teaching career in 1989 as a visiting professor at the University of California at Davis School of Law.
New ABA data parses out bar exam pass rates by race and ethnicity
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According to data released Tuesday by the American Bar Association s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, 87.65% of the white candidates who took a bar exam for the first time in 2020 passed. For people of other races or ethnicities, the first-time pass rate ranged from 66.28% to 79.92%.
According to the data, in 2020 there were 19,453 first-time test-takers who were white. Among other first-time test-takers:
The pass rate for Asians was 79.92% out of a total of 1,972 candidates.
The pass rate for Native Americans was 78.02% out of a total of 182 candidates.
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PROVO, Utah, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/
BYU Law, a leading national law school focused on leadership in the legal profession, today announced that this year s Law and Leadership Conference, January 29, will be a virtual event focusing on Paths to Bar Licensure to examine features and shortcomings of the bar examination, which have been underscored by pandemic-related challenges this past year. Each year, BYU Law School hosts a Law and Leadership Conference on an issue of current importance inviting leaders to discuss how we might change the world for the better using our legal education, said D. Gordon Smith, Dean, BYU Law. Following the historic decision by several states, including Utah, to adopt an emergency diploma privilege in the summer of 2020 and recognizing the known racial, gender, and other biases present in traditional bar examinations, this year s topic is Paths to Bar Licensure. In 2020, a pandemic and global racial upheaval have combin