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...When the CLE was founded in September of 1969, there was some doubt as to whether a University-sponsored center should initiate litigations, especially in the area of poverty and education cases...
Midway through 1970, the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)-which provides Federal funding for the Center through Harvard-changed the Center's funding from a Research and Development grant to a litigation-oriented Legal Services grant. Since then, the CLE has become increasingly involved in litigation...
However, Kirp withdrew the Center from a desegregation case in Detroit last November, saying that lengthy litigation was outside the CLE's line of work...
...almost as if he's cleaning house, and that may mean a shift toward research papers and projects," one attorney at the CLE said...
...Kirp is presently reconsidering two of the January dismissals, and has filled two of the vacated positions on the CLE staff...