Florida Board of Bar Examiners Re Massachusetts School of Law

HARDING, Justice.

This cause is before the Court on petition of the Massachusetts School of Law (MSL) for a waiver of the requirement that an applicant for admission to The Florida Bar must have received a Juris Doctor or a Bachelor of Laws degree from a law school approved or provisionally approved by the American Bar Association.1 We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const. For the *899reasons expressed herein, we deny the petition.

The bar admissions rule at issue here requires that in order to be eligible to take The Florida Bar Examination and to ultimately be admitted into The Florida…