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Changing the way legal scholars think should not be an impossible task for the Crits, since many CLS scholars hold lifetime posts at top law schools. Harvard alone has three tenured card-carrying Crits--Professor of Law Gerald Frug, Warren Professor of Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, and Kennedy--as well as several other left-leaning faculty members...
...Harvard is already a CLS stronghold," says Daniel Trubek, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin. "The presence of a prominent left at Harvard is a permanent presence. It's had an immense impact on Harvard. Harvard turns out a significant percentage of all law professors...
...Trubek himself found out that other voices have significant impacts on legal education at Harvard. In 1987, he and Dalton lost their bids for tenure at Harvard in controversial faculty votes and ensuing reviews by President Bok. CLS supporters have charged that in both instances the faculty discriminated against the left-wing scholars for their adherence to CLS, a charge which has taken the CLS debate from the classroom to the national news...
...Short of a Draconian right-wing purge, which I don't imagine would happen there, CLS professors will continue to gain tenure at Harvard," Trubek predicts. "Somebody will, not this year, not in the immediate future, but CLS will continue to influence the Harvard faculty no matter what they...
...Harvard decisions and ensuing claims of persecution increase the value of attending the convention for many CLS adherents. Crits--who make up only a small percentage of most law faculties--say the conference makes them fell that they are not alone...