ATTOR­NEY GEN­ER­AL KEN PAX­TON INVES­TI­GATES THE AMER­I­CAN BAR ASSO­CI­A­TION OVER POTEN­TIAL ANTI­COM­PET­I­TIVE CON­DUCT IN ACCRED­I­TA­TION OF LAW SCHOOLS

AUSTIN, Sept. 30 -- The Texas Attorney General issued the following press release:

Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into the American Bar Association ("ABA") over potential anticompetitive conduct relating to the accreditation of law schools.

Since 1952, the ABA has served as the federally recognized accreditor of U.S. law schools. Through its accreditation standards, the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar exercises significant influence over legal education nationwide. For years, the ABA has weaponized its accreditation authority to artificially inflate faculty salaries, exclude law schools who challenged the ABA's view of "elite" legal education, and impose costly, burdensome acc...