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Dalton is an adherent of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law is not based on abstract notions of justice, but rather upholds contemporary social and economic conditions...
Dalton's lawyer Nancy Gertner yesterday saidshe objected to the composition of the advisory committee.She wrote a letter to Bok in December when heannounced that he would form such a committeeasking him to ensure that certain groups, such aswomen and adherents of CLS, would be represented...
...allegations of discrimination andpolitically-biased tenure votes in Dalton's caserepresent the latest in a series of politicalbattles between adherent of CLS and theiropponents, which have been fought in the tenurearena...
Conservative faculty members stood by the traditional case study method and Socratic lecture format while liberal agitators, hired between the late '60s and mid '80s, demanded greater freedom to implement what was known as Critical Learning Studies (CLS). Harvard's highest offices resisted a number of appointments which would have diversified campus ideology. Fueled by pre-existing animosities between liberals and conservatives, opposition on hiring practices developed into personal and divisive debate which poisoned the atmosphere, inspired student demonstrations and long sit-ins, and compelled the first Black tenured professor, Derrick Bell, to leave the school in protest...
...background in CLS kept her out of the Law School faculty when five male assistant professors were tenured and two male outside scholars were accepted to the Harvard faculty, she has said in interviews since the suit was filed...