This fall, the American Bar Association Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA) marks 10 years of standing up for the rights of immigrant children. What began as a vision to ensure unaccompanied chi ...

The American Bar Association today announced the release of the final report of the ABA Task Force for American Democracy, a two-year, bipartisan effort to address the most pressing threats to the rul ...

Granted the Marquette University Law Schools request for a variance from Standard 503 (JD-Next) Granted variances from Standard 503 to the following four law schools: Arizona State University Sandra ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2025 —The American Bar Association and American University Washington College of Law will host the virtual program, “On the Docket: Looking Ahead at the New Supreme Court Term,” ...

The Committee accomplishes much of its work through task forces that are assigned to review and offer proposed amendments to the MBCA, including the Official Comment on each section. The amendments ...

The Council grants provisional and full approval to law schools located in the United States, its territories, and possessions. Access the current list of Council-approved Law Schools in alphabetical ...

The following materials show how each jurisdiction has modified each of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

The ABA Required Disclosures link below includes individual law school PDF reports and national compilation spreadsheets on 509 Required Disclosures (collected from the Annual Questionnaire) and ...

The Business Lawyer Editorial Board is made up of leading practitioners who have deep expertise across a range of practice areas. To request permission to reprint an article that appeared in The ...

The Section participates in the formation of international legal policy by identifying and influencing public policy issues important to international law, global business, and international ...

Programs offered by ABA-Approved Law Schools in a location outside the United States Below is a list of programs approved in compliance with the Criteria for Programs Offered by ABA-Approved Law ...

Public notice of sanctions, specific remedial action, probation, withdrawal of approval, and significant noncompliance with one or more Standards under Rule 11(a)(4). Rule 51 of the ABA Standards and ...