Word: cls
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ALTHOUGH he is a highly respected corporate law scholar, Clark is probably better known on campus for his caustic attacks on the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement. Over the last five years, Clark led the factions that have denied tenure to three CLS adherents, speaking out against them at every opportunity. While many of his right-wing colleagues kept their criticism "off the record," Clark continued his attacks in the national press...
...interview last week, Clark promised to make minority faculty hiring "more systematic than in the past." He said he would reach out to all members of the faculty--even the CLS faction he has so strongly attacked...
Twice in the last four years Bok has intervened in the traditionally independent tenure review process, denying CLS scholars tenured posts after close faculty votes. Both times, Clark publicly attacked the proposed appointments...
...faculty members said they were also concerned that Clark would be insensitive to race and gender issues. When Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell--one of two tenured Black professors at the Law School--held a sit-in in 1987 to protest the faculty's vote to deny a CLS adherent tenure, Clark said "This is a university--it's not a lunch counter in the deep South...
...think that both of the CLS dogmas--that scientific knowledge is impossible or meaningless and that the attempt to get it inevitably leads to defeatism and illegitimate justifications of the status quo--are deeply pernicious, and have to be combatted in legal education. It is very bad to indoctrinate students with these attitudes. --from a symposium at the 1984 Federalist Society Meeting, printed in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring...