Government regulations announced this week will shut out foreign law students who are taking classes online this fall—a move experts say is intended to pressure colleges and universities to return to campus.
The panicky emails began arriving in Erwin Chemerinsky's inbox within minutes after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday unveiled a new requirement that international students must take an in-person class this fall to be eligible for student visas.
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A total of 32 deans began new deanships between July 1, 2025, and June 30, down from 38 for the previous year and 45 in the previous 12-month period.
The state bar had accused Meazure Learning of overselling its ability to deliver California's novel, remote exam. The company previously said the state bar was trying to "shift blame" with the lawsuit it filed last year.
The legislatively mandated audit also found no one at the bar can remember who decided to ask a testing analysis vendor, ACS Ventures, to write test questions. Some of those questions were generated by artificial intelligence.
With the apparent demise of the legislation, focus shifts to what the California Supreme Court will say about who should write future bar exams and whether courts should have more authority to electronically record proceedings.
Of the 3,931 people who completed this year's February exam, 1,211 passed. The pass rates among repeat test-takers from three California law schools stood out.
