by Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed
In an unprecedented move among highly ranked traditional law schools, the Washington University Law School has unveiled a fully online master’s degree program in U.S. law. The program will be designed and taught by Washington Law faculty using a platform developed by 2tor, a Maryland-based online education provider. It will begin enrolling students in January 2013. The St. Louis-based law school says the new online program is meant primarily for practicing lawyers in foreign countries as a way for them to get credentialed as experts in American law without having to quit their jobs and move to the United States to take classes. The program does not offer a path to a J.D., and is not designed to prepare students to take the bar exam — although the American Bar Association (ABA), the sector’s most powerful regulatory body, has “acquiesced” to allowing graduates of the online program to sit for the bar exam in about a dozen states.
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