Professional Responsibility

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The Case for Abolishing the Character and Fitness Process

Report, Unlock the Bar (Feb. 2022)

Prof. Nina Chernoff

This is "a thirty-page report detailing the origins of the Character and Fitness process used in determining whether lawyers are fit to join the bar. Though each state’s Character and Fitness process is unique, what they all have in common is their history in keeping out People of Color and contributing to the massive racial disparity in the legal field."

The Case for Abolishing the Character and Fitness Process

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