Application of Steelman

NESBETT, Chief Justice.

Petitioner graduated from the University of Montana Law School in 1954 and was admitted to the bar of Montana the same year. He was not required to take a bar examination as a prerequisite to admission because Montana law provided that a diploma from the Department of Law of the University of Montana entitled the holder *818to a license to practice law in all of the courts of that state.1

The Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar Association denied petitioner’s application for admission to the Alaska Bar on reciprocity on February 10, 1968, on the ground that he had not…