Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other professors' main objection is that the radical "program has led them to subordinate academic ideals and standards to political ideals and standards." For this reason, Bator charged in the debate, CLS has had a "disastrous effect on the intellectual and institutional life of Harvard Law School...
Shavell alleged that since CLS professors disregard much previous scholarship, they "are much less willing to look at indexes of merit...
...believe the quality of the faculty has been and will continue to be lowered if the school makes appointments that the CLS group favors," said Shavell...
Clark, who chairs the school's Lateral Appointments Committee, which offers positions to faculty members already established at other schools, said many professors who have been offered a position here have refused because of the CLS dispute. He also said Harvard's radical professors, with a few exceptions, have made it difficult to select qualified professors in the first place...
...There is no quick solution to the problem," said Clark. "I hope over time that the Law School will get strong representation from other intellectual movements in the world, not just CLS. Then we could have some genuine diversity" which might soften the radical perspective, he said...