Word: clark
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BENEATH all the controversy, however, there was some encouraging news from last week's announcement. For one, Clark is very well-liked by his students. Known for making up songs about corporate law in his lectures, Clark is described by his students as caring and deeply interested in education. For once, it seems, Bok chose an administrator who was as much a teacher as a scholar...
ALTHOUGH he is a highly respected corporate law scholar, Clark is probably better known on campus for his caustic attacks on the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement. Over the last five years, Clark led the factions that have denied tenure to three CLS adherents, speaking out against them at every opportunity. While many of his right-wing colleagues kept their criticism "off the record," Clark continued his attacks in the national press...
Likewise, Clark has shown no great commitment to racial or gender diversity in the faculty. During his term as chair of the Subcommittee on Appointing Women, Clark was responsible for appointing only one woman to the faculty. When Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, one of the School's two tenured Black professors, held a sit-in to protest the denial of tenure to Dalton, Clark said "This is a university--not some lunch counter in the South...
Perhaps most disturbing of all, Bok's choice seemed to defy the will of the faculty. Members of the faculty-elected search committee said they had expressed strong reservations about appointing Clark. Bok's response was, "You don't always agree with all the advice that you get." The president was apparently more intent on steering the Law School towards more traditional forms of scholarship than he was on listening to the advice of the faculty...
...interview last week, Clark promised to make minority faculty hiring "more systematic than in the past." He said he would reach out to all members of the faculty--even the CLS faction he has so strongly attacked...