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CONSERVATIVES HAVE ONLY recently begun to turn around and attack CLS as the movement has become a force to be reckoned with. Academics and journalists cite the power struggles over tenure at Harvard as evidence of the movement's growing strength. However, they claim that CLS has had little effect on students...
...true that huge portions of the student body at CLS strongholds like Harvard and Stanford have not suddenly tilted to the left. But they are learning their trade in a politicized environment, in contrast to the atmosphere of academic complacency for which law schools have been criticized. CLS teachers would not, in principle, want to see mass indoctrination of law students into their political perspective; they only want students to recognize that the law has a political perspective. Crits like Kennedy don't teach classes in CLS theory, but in contracts or property rights, the basics of first year...
...meager ten percent of law students at Harvard who do not go into corporate law, some will go into teaching. Of that latter group, Kennedy argues, students who are receptive to the CLS viewpoint comprise a sizeable percentage. By focusing on those students, and sending them out into the world of law school faculties with both CLS leanings and a Harvard or Stanford degree-ticket to a teaching position, CLS has been able to build itself as a national movement...
...CLS IS SOMETHING of an anomaly; professional schools are not used to ideological controversy. Law school is a trade school. Law students, like medical students, are supposed to be in training, learning the skills of a profession. According to CLS, however, law schools teach more than objective skills, and hide political indoctrination behind claims of scientistic analysis...
...CLS adherents differ from other lawyers who think there's something wrong with society and want to change it. On the one hand, CLS rejects the usual progressive liberal politics whereby cumulative reforms within the legal system, such as fighting for the rights of a minority group in a court case, are supposed to change society for the better. On the other hand, CLS does not strike like a band of intellectual terrorists from the fringes of society to smash legal and cultural icons. It tries to use two apparently contradictory strategies at the same time: fighting for someone...