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...Paul M. Bator, Bromley Professor of Law, who last year became embroiled in a conflict over Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a growing movement of radical legal scholars, is a former Reagan appointee and one of the most outspoken conservative voices on the law school campus...
...Bator would not say whether his resignation from Harvard Law School had anything to do with his charges that left-leaning professors have too much power at the school. But Bator gave The Crimson a transcript of his comments concerning the CLS at a May forum in New York...
Dean of Harvard Law School James Vorenberg '49 said Bator's departure "has nothing to do with" the controversy over CLS. Vorenberg said Bator is not the first tenured professor to leave the law school and "it is understandable if somebody feels they will realize their potential elsewhere...
Last year at the forum, which was organized by a conservative law school group, Bator said CLS, a Marxist approach to legal studies which calls law an instrument of social oppression, has undermined the law school...
...Since the late seventies, it is my sad opinion that CLS has had an absolutely disastrous effect on the intellectual and institutional life of Harvard Law School," said Bator, who served as deputy solicitor general for the Justice Department...