South Texas And Vermont Are The 14th & 15th Law Schools To Offer Hybrid Online JDs

Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Applications for Substantive Change:

The Council acquiesced in the application of Vermont Law School to establish a part-time hybrid distance education J.D. program.

The Council acquiesced in the application of South Texas College of Law-Houston to establish a part-time hybrid/online J.D. program.

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• ABA Approves First Hybrid Online J.D. (Dec. 19, 2013)
• Syracuse Law School Seeks Approval For Nation's Second Hybrid Online J.D. Program(Apr. 20, 2016)
• Ben Barton (Tennessee), Syracuse's Hybrid Online J.D. Program Is Not The Reboot Legal Education Needs (Apr. 23, 2016)
• Loyola-Chicago, Mitchell Hamline, And Seton Hall Offer Weekend J.D. Programs (Dec. 4, 2016)
• Mitchell Hamline Revamps Weekend J.D. Program To Require Students To Be On Campus Only 7 (Rather Than 13) Weekends Per Semester (Dec. 6, 2016)
• ABA Rejects 2U-Syracuse Initial Proposal For A Hybrid Online J.D., While Other 2U-Syracuse Graduate Programs Are Flourishing With Over 1,700 Students (May 7, 2017)
• Mitchell-Hamline Hybrid-J.D. Program To Graduate Its First Class (Jan. 3, 2018)
• Seton Hall's Innovative Weekend J.D. Program (Jan. 13, 2018)
• Touro Law School Offers New York's First Hybrid J.D. (Jan. 18, 2018)
• ABA Approves Online JDs At Syracuse, Southwestern (Feb. 14, 2018)
• The Uncertain Landscape For Online Legal Education (Feb. 19, 2018)
• Syracuse Law School's New Hybrid J.D.: 75% Online, 25% Residential/Externships (Feb. 22, 2018)
• Dayton Is The Seventh Law School To Offer A Hybrid Online J.D. (May 29, 2018)
• Denver Is The Eighth Law School To Offer A Hybrid Online J.D. (Aug. 23, 2018)
• New Hampshire Is Ninth Law School To Offer Hybrid Online J.D., First With IP Focus (Mar. 14, 2019)
• A Comparative Look At Two Law School Hybrid J.D. Programs (Oct. 11, 2019)
• Akron Is Tenth Law School To Offer Hybrid Online J.D. (Nov. 4, 2019)
• Syracuse Illustrates The Many Possibilities For Online Legal Education (Feb. 3, 2020)
• ABA Clears Way For Syracuse Law School's Expansion Of Its Online JDinteractive Program  (July 7, 2020)
• Seattle Is Eleventh Law School To Offer Hybrid Online J.D. (Sept. 24, 2020)
• Suffolk Is Twelfth Law School To Offer Hybrid Online J.D. (Sept. 25, 2020)
• Northeastern Is Thirteenth Law School To Offer Hybrid Online J.D. (Feb. 4, 2021)

St. Mary's is the only law school with a fully online J.D. program:

• St. Mary's To Launch Nation's First Fully Online ABA-Accredited JD Degree (Sept. 1, 2021)
• St. Mary's To Launch Nation's First Fully Online ABA-Accredited JD Degree In Fall 2022 With 25 Students (Sept. 15, 2021)
• How St. Mary's Law School Convinced The ABA To Approve First-Ever Remote JD Program (Sept. 25, 2021)