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...legal circles, Unger is best known for his integral role in the development of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), an influential and very controversial movement in legal theory that argues that existing legal frameworks are grounded in socioeconomic inequity rather than neutral principles...
Cromwell Professor of Law Mark V. Tushnet ’67, who is also regarded as a leading figure in the CLS movement, said in an interview that Unger was a “central” figure in developing the movement’s theory, and that “very early on he...described a number of important aspects of Critical Legal Studies and captured in very important ways what the enterprise was about...
...academic policy side, [CLS] was very contentious—people regarded proponents of critical legal studies as anti-law in some sense,” Tushnet said. “There were cultural differences between the younger generation attracted to Critical Legal Studies and the older generation that found it unsettling...
...other assistant professor to be deniedtenure in recent memory, Daniel K. Tarullo, andthe two visiting professors who have been deniedtenure in the past three years have all beenadherents of CLS...
Opponents of CLS used this policy successfullyto convince Bok to review the Trubek case, andsupporters of the movement used the same tactic toask for Bok's second look at the Dalton case...