Link: Inside Higher Ed :: Ave Maria Gets High Sign From ABA.
Ave Maria School of Law, which opened five years ago with the mission of incorporating Roman Catholicism fully and fundamentally into legal teachings and has been closely watched as a result, is poised to earn the ultimate stamp of approval from its peers: full accreditation from the American Bar Association.
The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted last month to grant full accreditation to Ave Maria, as well as to the law school at the University of the District of Columbia, which has been recovering from years of declining bar passage rates and threats to its accreditation. Both decisions by the council are subject to approval by the ABA’s main policy making body, the House of Delegates, which meets next month, but the delegates rarely overturn the council’s decisions.