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...nihilist who must profess that legal principle does not matter has an ethical duty to depart the law school." That article referred specifically to Unger, but the Duke dean continues to generate considerable controversy in legal and others have criticized both the scholarly ability and the morality of CLS professors in numerous harshly-worded essays. "While the adherents to this banner [CLS] are a varied group, it seems safe to characterize them collectively as nihilists Carrington writes. "Their scholarship is often avowedly destructive in its purpose...
Carrington's statements have polarized much of the academic legal community. Most CLS professors and a large number of moderates and liberals--including Harvard's highly-respected Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62--have called Carrington's comments offensive and accused him of witch-hunting...
Kennedy says that Carrington's criticisms of CLS are based on a basic misunderstanding of CLS writings. "If Carrington thinks that Roberto [Unger] is a nihilist, then he doesn't have the slightest idea what Roberto is talking about," Kennedy says. Unger, one of the philosophic lenders of CLS, is considered by many to be a brilliant but dazzlingly complex writer...
...enough to be brilliant, many CLS critics maintain; a professor must be fit to teach. Carrington claims that they are not. And he has a good deal of support across the nation--including some at Harvard...
...CLS is subversive of the educational enterprise which we are nominally supposed to be engaged in at the Law School," says second-year student Bennett E. Cooper, vice president of the Harvard Society of Law and Public Policy. Cooper contends that a large number of students, regardless of political or legal viewpoint, believe that "there is a real problem with the quality of teaching" of CLS professors, who he says tend to be overly political or polemic...