Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critical Legal Studies [CLS] charges that scholars cannot viewed the law objectively but must take into account the social and economic value judgements on which it is based...
...while Dalton has claimed that the faculty discriminated against her in part for her adherence to Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought, she said she did not want the courtroom to be a forum for a debate over CLS...
According to its adherents, CLS is concerned with the influence of society and culture on law, and the law's effect on the distribution of wealth and power. Dalton was the second CLS tenure-tracked professor denied a permanent post at the law school in three years...
...want it to be a forum for the CLS debate," Dalton said...
Though the search for a successor to outgoing Dean James Vorenberg '49 has raised the issues of the number of women and minorities and CLS adherents on the faculty, Dalton said the appointment of a new dean--expected by the end of this semester--would not influence her decision...