Word: cls
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...Dalton is denied tenure by the Law School faculty, making her the second tenure track professor in 17 years to be denied a promotion, and the third Critical Legal Studies (CLS)-affiliated professor to have their tenure bid blocked by either Bok or the faculty. Although she receives a 29-20 vote of the faculty supporting her promotion, Dalton falls four votes shy of the two-thrids majority necessary for approval. Dalton says at the time that she will ask Bok to review the case, charging that the faculty discriminated against her because she is a woman and is affiliated...
Dalton is an adherent of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law is not based on abstract notions of justice, but rather upholds contemporary social and economic conditions...
Dalton's lawyer Nancy Gertner yesterday saidshe objected to the composition of the advisory committee.She wrote a letter to Bok in December when heannounced that he would form such a committeeasking him to ensure that certain groups, such aswomen and adherents of CLS, would be represented...
Kennedy and several other professors involved with the program are affiliated with the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) school of thought, which holds that the legal system reinforces prejudices inherent in the status quo. However, the program has no official connection with CLS and is open to "basically anyone," Kennedy said...
...program "seems like a good idea to me," said Professor Duncan M. Kennedy '64, one the founders of CLS. "There are already five or six diverse programs here. This should be just as good," he added...