{"id":141908,"date":"2026-01-15T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/15\/no-longer-the-baby-among-law-schools\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:36:29","slug":"no-longer-the-baby-among-law-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/15\/no-longer-the-baby-among-law-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"No Longer The Baby Among Law Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elon University plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/new-law-school-set-to-open-over-ashes-of-past-legal-education-disaster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open a new law school in Charlotte<\/a>, beginning in 2027. What is the most recent new law school to earn ABA accreditation, becoming the 197th approved law school program and opening its doors in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Unlike the new school bound for Charlotte, this one is not in North Carolina\u2026 though you might be forgiven for thinking it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/no-longer-the-baby-among-law-schools\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No Longer The Baby Among Law Schools<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-185215276-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Elon University plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/new-law-school-set-to-open-over-ashes-of-past-legal-education-disaster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open a new law school in Charlotte<\/a>, beginning in 2027. What is the most recent new law school to earn ABA accreditation, becoming the 197th approved law school program and opening its doors in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Unlike the new school bound for Charlotte, this one is not in North Carolina\u2026 though you might be forgiven for thinking it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/no-longer-the-baby-among-law-schools\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/no-longer-the-baby-among-law-schools\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon University plans to open a new law school in Charlotte, beginning in 2027. What is the most recent new law school to earn ABA accreditation, becoming the 197th approved law school program and opening its doors in 2023. Hint: Unlike the new school bound for Charlotte, this one is not in North Carolina\u2026 though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-185215276-jCVK91.jpg?fit=725%2C482&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}