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...critique of traditional legal thought and how law is made," says Pat DePace, a second-year American University law student. Traditional legal scholars "try to teach you it's like the Ten Commandments coming down from the mountain, and that it's always right. CLS people tell [you] politics of the time and the social climate have an effect on the decisions that are made. There's a lot more aspects to CLS...
Although they may not agree on exactly what CLS is, Crits like Harvard Professor of Law Duncan Kennedy--who casually smokes a cigar outside of the conference--say they've put the establishment up against the wall...
...think it's quite right for the right wing and the establishment to feel threatened, because changing the terms of the debate is bound somehow to influence legal education in a pervasive way," says Kennedy, a leading CLS scholar. "They see that changes in the terms of debate at this level are rare in the history of institutions so it's natural for them to be scared and angry...
...while CLS' incessant disputes with legal doctrine have yet to tip the scales of the bar or the practical legal establishment, Crits say they're already changing the way today's young lawyers think...
...CLS has called attention to deeply rooted value assumptions that underlie legal doctine," Pope says. The influence of CLS, he says, "will appear in the course catalog, under courses that feature 'competing visions of the law.' And we're seeing a lot of decisions with CLS slants, too, probably because clerks who had CLS in law school go on to work for judges and work on the decisions...