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...while Dalton has claimed that the faculty discriminated against her in part for her adherence to Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought, she said she did not want the courtroom to be a forum for a debate over CLS...
According to its adherents, CLS is concerned with the influence of society and culture on law, and the law's effect on the distribution of wealth and power. Dalton was the second CLS tenure-tracked professor denied a permanent post at the law school in three years...
Dalton, a CLS adherent, received support from a majority of the faculty, including Vorenberg, but not the two-thirds she needed for tenure. Eighteen professors subsequently petitioned Bok for a review, charging the Law School faculty with political bias...
...committee consists of Professor of Law Gerald E. Frug, a CLS adherent; Professor of Law David Kennedy and Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, active supporters of Dalton's tenure; Professor of Law Robert C. Clark, one of the Law School's most vocal opponents of CLS; Cromwell Professor of Law David L. Shapiro '54; and Fessenden Professor of Law Bernard Wolfman...
Kaufman, who is helping lead the special planning committee, said that future evaluations of the Law School would "be looking at the education program at this school and the long range planning," and not at the political problems of CLS...