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...bitter debate is a result of the rise of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and, in turn, its vocal opponents at Harvard Law School. The schism between these two relatively small but intellectually agressive factions has grown wider and more public over the past few years--leading to full-fledged scholarly war during the past six months on the battlefield of tenure decisions...
...CLS is a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law reinforces prevailing social and economic norms rather than representing fixed, abstract notions of justice. Those opposed to CLS, considered to be conservatives, argue that the teaching of law is based on absolute definitions of what is just. The natural academic battle between CLS adherents, called crits, and the conservatives has wracked the law school making the tenure process extremely volatile and public...
Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64, who isconsidered to be one of the leaders of CLS, saidthat having Bok intervene was a bad precedent...
Members of CLS hold that the law is not founded on abstract principles of justice, but is necessarily intertwined with dominant social and economic norms...
Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, who called Bok's decision "very disappointing,"said that the recent tenure decisions againstThayer Lecturer on Law Daniel Tarullo, AssistantProfessor Clare Dalton, and Trubek--all consideredaffiliates of the CLS school-were ideologicallymotivated...