Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooper of the Society of Law and Public Policy maintains that Bernardi is "Whitewashing," and that a large number of students, regardless of what they put on evaluation forms are dissatisfied with CLS teachers...
Cooper's statements are indicative of one of the most common anti-CLS arguments that CLS adherents, because they believe law to be so flowed should stop teaching it. In addition, CLS critics claim who believe that hierarchy inherently bad have no business in the fiercely hierarchical law school structure. These critics suggest that a more ethical route would be to practice poverty law or follow other altruistic pursuits in order to help those oppressed by the social order...
...Some CLS critics say radical legal scholars are self-serving intellectuals who retreat into academics, thereby disassociating themselves from grass-roots social movements Kennedy again disagrees, saying CLS professors are, for example, integrally involved in the divestment movement at Harvard, and have in general had close ties to student protest movements. He also points to CLS-leaning professors and students who provide legal services to the poor through the Law School's clinical program...
...even just being radical within the Ivory Tower can be very gratifying, as several CLS scholars observe. "It's really liberating to be off the wall," Kennedy says...
Despite such self-deprecation, CLS professors like Kennedy are very serious about their views and methods. "I believe that the legal system is the repository of some of the best values of our culture," Kennedy says. "But I believe that they have been manipulated and betrayed...