Legal Education

Every Course Needs Learning Outcomes by August

The ABA's revised accreditation standards require law schools to establish measurable learning outcomes for every course, align them to programmatic outcomes, and build formative assessments into the first year — all by the 2026-2027 academic year. Most schools are not staffed for this work. An LLM can help with the drafting. It cannot help with the judgment calls that make the drafting worthwhile.