Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears that Vorenberg has finally reacted to the turmoil under his term and decided to return to his teaching and research. During Vorenberg's more than seven years as dean, the radical school of legal thought called Critical Legal Studies (CLS) has bitterly divided the law faculty. CLS challenges the objectivity of the law as it is practiced, claiming that the social and economic forces which constitute the true backbone of the law are dressed up by the institutional stature of the judiciary...
According to observers, the Law School is composed roughly of CLS adherents, CLS opponents and undecided faculty in equal numbers. At times, each faction has had enough pull to bring the tenure process to a grinding halt, destroying the faculty's collegiality. Most recently, the case of Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton, who was denied tenure by the faculty and President Bok on review, has raised issues of gender and political discrimination that have turned academic disputes into personal ones...
Nesson also charged that Loeb University Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox '34, whom Bok appointed to the five-member committee which investigated the Dalton case, was biased against Dalton because she supports the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement...
...Archie Cox is not impartial in this case," Nesson said in the taped message. "In a very important sense, Archie Cox was the object of it all. He was the symbol. He represented what Harvard stood for, and what this CLS movement attacked...
...president's pen could heal the wounds that have developed at the Law School over the years. But a few choice words from Bok could have dealt realistically with the factors that went into the Dalton decision and spurred a long-overdue faculty discussion on tenure and CLS...