The American Bar Association (the ABA) has recommended new accreditation standards for law schools that would require schools to include “gender identity and expression” in their non-discrimination policies, replace the term “minority” with “people of color” in school materials, and take “effective actions” to create an “inclusive and equitable environment,” defining such an environment in terms of race, color, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, and sexual orientation.
The ABA effectively sets the conditions under which all law schools in the U.S. operate. Through its powers of accreditation, it exerts control over what nearly every American law student must study on the way to becoming a practicing attorney. Imposing ideological conditions on law schools is nothing new for the ABA, but it has become much more blatant in recent years, and the newly proposed standards position the ABA as an advocate for conceits originating in the radical identitarian left.
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