Word: cls
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Dalton's case was the latest chapter in the Law School's struggle over Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law reflects social and economic values, and not abstract principles...
Dalton, a CLS adherent, received support from a majority of the faculty, including Vorenberg, but not the two-thirds she needed for tenure. Eighteen professors subsequently petitioned Bok for a review, charging the Law School faculty with political bias...
...committee consists of Professor of Law Gerald E. Frug, a CLS adherent; Professor of Law David Kennedy and Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, active supporters of Dalton's tenure; Professor of Law Robert C. Clark, one of the Law School's most vocal opponents of CLS; Cromwell Professor of Law David L. Shapiro '54; and Fessenden Professor of Law Bernard Wolfman...
Kaufman, who is helping lead the special planning committee, said that future evaluations of the Law School would "be looking at the education program at this school and the long range planning," and not at the political problems of CLS...
...past, the faculty members on the committee have differred in their views on Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law is not concerned with abstract values but instead reflects social and economic trends. Frug, Kennedy and Tribe were outspoken in their support of CLS adherent Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton's unsuccessful tenure bid. Clark has been one of the most vocal opponents of CLS at the Law School...