Petition of Dolan

WAHL, Justice.

The standard for admission to the bar of this state has long been the passage of a written bar examination and graduation with a J.D. or L.L.B. degree from a law school which is approved, provisionally or fully, by the American Bar Association.1 Rule 11(A)(3), Rules of the Supreme Court and State Board of Law Examiners for Admission to the Bar. We examined in depth the legal and educational basis for *555the graduation from an approved law school requirement in In re Hansen, 275 N.W.2d 790 (Minn.1978). In order to insure a competent bar, we acknowledged our primary reliance on the…