Word: cls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conservative faculty members stood by the traditional case study method and Socratic lecture format while liberal agitators, hired between the late '60s and mid '80s, demanded greater freedom to implement what was known as Critical Learning Studies (CLS). Harvard's highest offices resisted a number of appointments which would have diversified campus ideology. Fueled by pre-existing animosities between liberals and conservatives, opposition on hiring practices developed into personal and divisive debate which poisoned the atmosphere, inspired student demonstrations and long sit-ins, and compelled the first Black tenured professor, Derrick Bell, to leave the school in protest...
...background in CLS kept her out of the Law School faculty when five male assistant professors were tenured and two male outside scholars were accepted to the Harvard faculty, she has said in interviews since the suit was filed...
...flaws, however, How Harvard Rules contains several noteworthy pieces of writing. One particularly bright spot is Jamin B. Raskin's analysis of the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School. CLS, which challenges the objectivity of the law by examining the ways legal systems work to reinforce political and economic elite, has become one of the last strongholds of real radicalism at the University. Consequently, Bok and the Law School's conservatives have made every effort during the last few years to dismantle--or at least discredit--the movement. Raskin's sarcastic digs at this process...
Raskin also manages to take a few sharp digs at CLS itself, nothing that the movement has quickly managed to incorporate itself into the status quo. "It is often said that you can tell CLS militants because they tie up the Xerox machine at Cravath, Swain & Moore," he remarks, suggesting that the movement lacks a sense of purpose...