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ABA-Approved Law Schools with Acquiescence for Distance Education J.D. Programs

A law school may allow a student to earn up to 50 percent of the credit hours required for the J.D. degree through Distance Education Courses without applying for acquiescence in a substantive change. The law schools listed below have received acquiescence from the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association to offer hybrid or fully online Distance Education Divisions in accordance with Standard 105(a)(12)(i). 

Albany Law School
Case Western Reserve University School of Law +
Cleveland State University College of Law 
Dayton, University of, School of Law
Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law +
Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
Mitchell Hamline School of Law (“Prison to Law Pipeline”) +
New Hampshire, University of, School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law +
St. Mary’s University School of Law +
Seattle University School of Law 
South Texas College of Law-Houston
Southwestern Law School * +
Suffolk University Law School *
Syracuse University College of Law
Vermont Law School 
Western New England University School of Law

* Law schools with both full-time and part-time enrollment options; all others are part-time only. 

+ Law schools with fully online programs (programs may have optional residential components); all others are hybrid programs. 

Additionally, a law school may allow a student to earn 50 percent or more of the credit hours required for the J.D. degree through Distance Education Courses without instituting a formal Distance Education Division after seeking acquiescence in a substantive change in accordance with Standard 105(a)(12)(ii). No law schools have currently sought or received acquiescence to do so.

A law school also may enroll 50 percent or more of its students in at least one Distance Education Course or offer 50 percent or more of its courses as Distance Education Courses after seeking acquiescence in a substantive change in accordance with Standard 105(a)(12)(iii).  The law schools listed below have received acquiescence under Standard 105(a)(12)(iii).   

Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, The
Duquesne University School of Law
Florida International University College of Law
Illinois Chicago School of Law, University of
Mississippi School of Law, University of
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Roger Williams University School of Law
Southwestern Law School