Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's decision came from on high designed to correct a gnawing controversy--over the legitimacy of Critical Legal Studies (CLS)--among the dwellers of Langdell Hall below. Case closed, controversy ended, next case please...
...president, who for better or worse has the ultimate authority over tenure disputes, could have helped forge the way by addressing such relevant policy questions as: Should ideology matter in tenure decisions? Could the Law School have enough scholars in CLS--the radical field of legal thought that has divided the faculty into fueding factions--or should each scholar be evaluated independently? What does it mean that many young scholars choose to employ the analytical tools of CLS in their research, and will the Law School be trapped in the past if it turns its back on CLS? Should tenure...
...allegations of discrimination andpolitically-biased tenure votes in Dalton's caserepresent the latest in a series of politicalbattles between adherent of CLS and theiropponents, which have been fought in the tenurearena...
...other assistant professor to be deniedtenure in recent memory, Daniel K. Tarullo, andthe two visiting professors who have been deniedtenure in the past three years have all beenadherents of CLS...
Opponents of CLS used this policy successfullyto convince Bok to review the Trubek case, andsupporters of the movement used the same tactic toask for Bok's second look at the Dalton case...