Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CLS does not stop at the law school gates. It is a new radical social vision informed by critical approaches running the gamut from Gramsci to Derrida. Gone are the criteria of "scholarly excellence" and "intellectual integrity," the bywords of the conservatives under attack. In their place is a conviction that the law can never be apolitical, whether in courtrooms or classrooms...
...CLS politicizing the law does not mean adding new radical elements, but rather drawing out into the open what is already there. Conservatives charge that the CLS faction of the Law School faculty has "manipulated" the tenure process to hire more left faculty members. But how can anybody claim that CLS proponents have perverted something for which there is no objective norm, something that is already a debate and a political process? The reasonableness of the tenure process--likewise of the "science" of legal analysis which presumes to logically deduce the one right answer to legal questions--only enshrines existing...
CONSERVATIVES HAVE ONLY recently begun to turn around and attack CLS as the movement has become a force to be reckoned with. Academics and journalists cite the power struggles over tenure at Harvard as evidence of the movement's growing strength. However, they claim that CLS has had little effect on students...
...true that huge portions of the student body at CLS strongholds like Harvard and Stanford have not suddenly tilted to the left. But they are learning their trade in a politicized environment, in contrast to the atmosphere of academic complacency for which law schools have been criticized. CLS teachers would not, in principle, want to see mass indoctrination of law students into their political perspective; they only want students to recognize that the law has a political perspective. Crits like Kennedy don't teach classes in CLS theory, but in contracts or property rights, the basics of first year...
...meager ten percent of law students at Harvard who do not go into corporate law, some will go into teaching. Of that latter group, Kennedy argues, students who are receptive to the CLS viewpoint comprise a sizeable percentage. By focusing on those students, and sending them out into the world of law school faculties with both CLS leanings and a Harvard or Stanford degree-ticket to a teaching position, CLS has been able to build itself as a national movement...