Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while CLS' incessant disputes with legal doctrine have yet to tip the scales of the bar or the practical legal establishment, Crits say they're already changing the way today's young lawyers think...
...CLS has called attention to deeply rooted value assumptions that underlie legal doctine," Pope says. The influence of CLS, he says, "will appear in the course catalog, under courses that feature 'competing visions of the law.' And we're seeing a lot of decisions with CLS slants, too, probably because clerks who had CLS in law school go on to work for judges and work on the decisions...
Changing the way legal scholars think should not be an impossible task for the Crits, since many CLS scholars hold lifetime posts at top law schools. Harvard alone has three tenured card-carrying Crits--Professor of Law Gerald Frug, Warren Professor of Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, and Kennedy--as well as several other left-leaning faculty members...
...Harvard is already a CLS stronghold," says Daniel Trubek, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin. "The presence of a prominent left at Harvard is a permanent presence. It's had an immense impact on Harvard. Harvard turns out a significant percentage of all law professors...
...Trubek himself found out that other voices have significant impacts on legal education at Harvard. In 1987, he and Dalton lost their bids for tenure at Harvard in controversial faculty votes and ensuing reviews by President Bok. CLS supporters have charged that in both instances the faculty discriminated against the left-wing scholars for their adherence to CLS, a charge which has taken the CLS debate from the classroom to the national news...