Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dalton, whose tenure bid failed by three votes, was the second assistant professor since 1969 to be denied a permanent post. The first, Daniel Tarullo, was also a CLS adherent...
...Another CLS adherent, Visiting Professor David Trubek from the University of Wisconsin Law School, was offered a tenured position by the faculty last spring. But Bok reversed the faculty's decision for the first time in the Law School's history and rescinded the offer...
...bitter debate is a result of the rise of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and, in turn, its vocal opponents at Harvard Law School. The schism between these two relatively small but intellectually agressive factions has grown wider and more public over the past few years--leading to full-fledged scholarly war during the past six months on the battlefield of tenure decisions...
...CLS is a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law reinforces prevailing social and economic norms rather than representing fixed, abstract notions of justice. Those opposed to CLS, considered to be conservatives, argue that the teaching of law is based on absolute definitions of what is just. The natural academic battle between CLS adherents, called crits, and the conservatives has wracked the law school making the tenure process extremely volatile and public...
...this damaging division does not necessarily grow out of intellectual debate. Friedenthal said that Stanford has a substantial number of professors sympathetic to the tenets of CLS--considered to be the second largest concentration of crits after Harvard--without the debate spilling over into the tenure process...