Wei Jia v. Board of Bar Examiners

In 1993, the Board of Bar Examiners (board) denied an application by the petitioner, Wei Jia, to sit for the Massachusetts bar examination because he had not been graduated with a bachelor of laws or juris doctor degree from a law school approved by the American Bar Association (ABA), as required by S.J.C. Rule 3:01, § 3.3, as appearing in 382 Mass. 753 (1981), nor had he demonstrated that he had obtained an “equivalent” legal education, as provided in S.J.C. Rule 3:01, § 3.4, as appearing in 382 Mass. 753 (1981).1 The petitioner, *778the holder of a primary law degree from an institute in the…