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Kennedy and several other professors involved with the program are affiliated with the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) school of thought, which holds that the legal system reinforces prejudices inherent in the status quo. However, the program has no official connection with CLS and is open to "basically anyone," Kennedy said...
...program "seems like a good idea to me," said Professor Duncan M. Kennedy '64, one the founders of CLS. "There are already five or six diverse programs here. This should be just as good," he added...
Dalton, whose tenure bid failed by three votes, was the second assistant professor since 1969 to be denied a permanent post. The first, Daniel Tarullo, was also a CLS adherent...
...Another CLS adherent, Visiting Professor David Trubek from the University of Wisconsin Law School, was offered a tenured position by the faculty last spring. But Bok reversed the faculty's decision for the first time in the Law School's history and rescinded the offer...
...this damaging division does not necessarily grow out of intellectual debate. Friedenthal said that Stanford has a substantial number of professors sympathetic to the tenets of CLS--considered to be the second largest concentration of crits after Harvard--without the debate spilling over into the tenure process...