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Their deliberations come during one of the most intense academic and administrative disputes in the school's history. The faculty has split into radical and anti-radical factions over the appointment of new faculty members and the growth of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a progressive field which questions the basic tenets of law and legal scholarship...
...other schools, there is a better working relationship between professors, who get along with CLS professors just fine," said Clark...
...second problem is a paradox of having your cake and eating it too. How can we take seriously the revolutionary antics of a privileged group like a bunch of tenured law teachers? No matter how many protest marches and real world demonstrations they participate in, can CLS people live in their ivory towers and kick at the foundations at the same time? No one will argue that CLS has not turned Harvard Law School upside-down, but does it offer a viable program for social change...
...CLS approach brings up two problems. First, fighting for someone's rights while fighting the system of rights is paradoxical. Not all CLS people share the same radical social vision of a society with anarchy built into it, of a state with revolution built into it, but this idea is implicit in their synthesis of radical theory and legal practice. A possible analogy for this notion of internal revolution is that the kind of confrontation and dialogue that goes (or tries to go) on between the government of Harvard University and student protestors should be happening continually at all levels...
Paradoxes and problems aside, CLS has sparked debate. The pitting of radicals, who say there is only right and left, against conservatives who say there is right and objective wrong has a broader cultural context. In a culture that has increasingly begun to attack the neutrality and objectivity of its own rational, scientific ways of doing things--a culture in which monoliths like "society" have fractured into class, race, gender and sexual politics--Critical Legal Studies is not out of place...