D. Benjamin Barros

The ABA council frequently revisits its accreditation standards. The council aways invites feedback on standards changes through a notice and comment process. For the most part, changes are relatively routine and non-controversial. In the past few years, however, the council has proposed some changes to the ABA standards that have been questioned or outright opposed by large numbers of law school deans. Decanal opposition to standards changes may not always be a problem.

1 Introduction Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs) are large-scale ionospheric irregularities characterized by regions of strongly reduced electron density compared to the ambient plasma density (Haerendel, 1973; Kelley, 2009). They commonly originate in the geomagnetic equator, developing along the magnetic field lines, and exhibit an eastward drift propagation.

By D. Benjamin Barros Author's note: This op-ed was drafted about six weeks ago, in a very different world. It was intended to highlight the costs that the timing of the bar exam impose on law school graduates, and to make the case for long-term change in how the bar exam is delivered. Now, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, New York and Massachusetts have just announced that they are postponing the July exam. Other jurisdictions are considering following suit.