Word: cls
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Three of them were adherents to the radical school of legal scholarship, Critcal Legal Studies (CLS), which holds that the law is an instrument of social injustice. CLS has divided the academic community, and many right-wing professors nationwide have pushed to keep CLS professors off of law faculties...
...Harvard, two CLS tenure-tracked professors were denied lifetime posts in highly controversial votes after Bok intervened. Many observers said they thought he was biased against the left-wing scholars, and they interpreted the appointment of Clark as yet another political message from the president...
Although last week's appointment of the highly outspoken critic of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) has met with considerable opposition from much of the faculty, most of the students attending the reception yesterday said they anticipated that he would make a good dean...
...several students said they believed that Clark's controversial appointment will fail to heal the rift between the conservative and leftist faculty members. Clark has been an outspoken critic of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of thought that characterizes the law as an instrument of social injustice...
Clark's claims that he is suddenly interested in tolerating CLS viewpoints remind us of a very dirty campaigner's pledge to create a kinder, gentler nation. Rhetoric cannot hide the past. Clark's classroom antics and his qualifications as a corporate law expert should not obscure the fact that he was the wrong choice at the wrong time for the law school...