Word: cls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These conflicts were most visible with the tenure votes on Daniel Tarullo, David Trubek and Clare Dalton--in 1985, 1986 and 1987, respectively. Denied promotions amidst allegations of political bias, the three scholars were adherents of the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a school of thought holding that the law is rooted in dominant social norms and not abstract notions of justice...
Politics and ideology forced the normally staid law faculty into warring factions. And Vorenberg, unable to resolve the political infighting, asked President Derek C. Bok to intervene--prompting charges that the law faculty had lost its autonomy by calling in the president. In the end, none of the CLS scholars received tenure, as Bok reversed the faculty vote granting Dalton tenure and later confirmed the faculty's vote to deny a post to Trubek...
...Pusey '28, the 82-year-old former president of Harvard, offered his perspective on recent events at the Law School to a Crimson reporter in a recent interview. Pusey, who drew fire for calling in the police to arrest student protesters 20 years ago, compared the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School to the student protesters of a generation ago. CLS, a radical school of legal thought that stresses the law's biases toward the economically privileged, has divided professors at the Law School and prompted Bok's intervention twice in recent years...
...former president expressed his hope that the current Harvard administration will be able to contain the CLS movement, saying "But I think Derek [Bok's] gotten on top of that...
Neither Kennedy nor Sullivan are considered "shrimps" themselves. They are not CLS adherents, and their scholarship didn't raise such questions of ideology...