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...campus for the past several years by the invitation of the Harvard Law School Veterans Association, an HLS student group. An Air Force review in 1998 had found that this mechanism provided the military adequate access to the Law School and put the University in compliance with the Solomon Amendment...
...latest review—initiated in December 2001—the Air Force found that the Law School did not meet the Solomon Amendment’s requirements and threatened to “forward this matter to the Office of the Secretary of Defense with a recommendation of funding denial,” according to the May 29 Air Force letter cited in Clark’s memo...
...Force spokesperson Valerie Burkes said the reason for the shift in the military’s interpretation of the statute was a change to the Solomon Amendment in 2000 giving the Department of Defense “more options regarding enforcement” of the law. A procedural rule issued by the department in December 2000 allowed it to rescind funding from an entire institution because of the actions of one of its elements...
Many other law schools had previously changed their policy toward military recruiters as a result of the 1998 reviews under the Solomon Amendment, and Stone said he thought that about 15 law schools would be affected by the new reviews, which were completed this year by the Army and the Air Force...
Enforcement of the Solomon Amendment has mostly focused on law schools because of the military’s recruitment for the Judge Advocate General program. Many law schools had banned recruitment from the military in the 1990s because the 164-school strong Association of American Law Schools requires its members to adopt nondiscrimination policies...