ABA Task Force to Combat Antisemitism

A law school shall provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism at the start of the program of legal education, and at least once again before graduation.

Standard 303(c)’s requirement that law schools provide education on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism may be satisfied by, among other things, the following: 

(1) Orientation sessions for incoming students; 

(2) Lectures on these topics; 

(3) Courses incorporating these topics; or 

(4) Other educational experiences incorporating these topics. 

While law schools need not add a required upper-division course to satisfy this requirement, law schools must demonstrate that all law students are required to participate in a substantial activity designed to reinforce the skill of cultural competency and their obligation as future lawyers to work to eliminate racism in the legal profession. 

Standard 303 does not prescribe the form or content of the education on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism required by Standard 303(c).

Education to law students regarding antisemitism, Islamophobia, or bias regarding

religious observance would also satisfy the requirement to provide education on bias,

cross-cultural competency, and racism.