{"id":392,"date":"2011-03-25T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-03-28T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T13:30:39","slug":"the-importance-of-historically-black-law-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2011\/03\/25\/the-importance-of-historically-black-law-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Historically Black Law Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Grutter v. Bollinger,<\/span><\/a><\/em> 539 U.S. 306 (2003), historically Black law schools (HBLS) still plays an important role in the education Black\/African American law schools.\u00a0 According to the ABA\u2019s statistics, the proportion of entering law students who were Black\/African American peaked in 1998, at 8.1%, and then fell to 6.5% in 2005.\u00a0 Since then, that proportion increased to 7.3% in 2009.\u00a0 Because those statistics includes students enrolled in historically Black law schools, it does not show the level of minority enrollment in law schools in which a majority of the students are White\/Caucasian\u2013the bulk of law schools.\u00a0 As shown in Table 1, for the Fall 2006 through Fall 2009 entering classes, Black\/African-American enrollment in majority White\/Caucasian law schools has average 6.4%, lower than the shares of both Asian\/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic, entering students:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Arguably, seven ABA-accredited law schools are historically Black law schools:\u00a0 Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia (DC); Florida A&M (FL); Atlanta\u2019s John Marshall (GA), Southern University (LA), North Carolina Central University (NC), and Texas Southern University (TX).\u00a0 As shown in Table 2, these seven schools are vital to the opportunity of Black\/African-American students to enroll in law school. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
The seven historically Black law schools represented only 2.7% of the Fall 2005 through Fall 2009 entering classes, as a group, but 16.3% of Black\/African-American entering students. \u00a0Within the jurisdictions in which they are located, the historically Black law schools represented a much greater portion of Black\/African American law students\u2014from 25.3% to 63.6% of students entering law schools in each jurisdiction.<\/span><\/div>\n

If the ABA is serious about increasing the diversity of the legal profession, especially for Black\/African Americans, it needs the historically Black law schools. \u00a0ABA accreditation, and Bar passage concerns has already adversely affected Black\/African American enrollment in these schools.\u00a0 Raising the minimum Bar passage rate requirements would only accelerate that trend. \u00a0But more on that later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Posted by Gary Rosin<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), historically Black law schools (HBLS) still plays an important role in the education Black\/African American law schools.\u00a0 According to the ABA\u2019s statistics, the proportion of entering law students who were Black\/African American peaked in 1998, at 8.1%, and then fell to 6.5% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,30,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aba","category-commentary","category-diversity","category-law-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}