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...CLS movement at Harvard was effectively born when the triumvirate of Kennedy, Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, and Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger burst on the scene in the early 1970s...
Since then, "CLS has clearly grows fairly rapidly," says Kennedy, citing the snowballing attendance at and participation in the annual National Conference on Critical Legal Studies, a gathering of CLS scholars...
...Kennedy warns that the rapid growth of CLS in law school faculties--especially at Harvard--"is not likely to last very long." The politically-charged Law School faculty is generally considered to be about evenly divided among factions on the right, the center and the left--and only a small percentage of the left-leaning professors are CLS scholars. The "conservative" professors--most of whom are conservative only when compared to the radical left at the Law School--are strong enough to block any attempt by the CLS movement to influence faculty hiring decisions. Without such influence, say CLS supporters...
Kennedy, however, remains optimistic about the staying power of CLS. He believes that a large number of law students, drawn into CLS at Harvard and a handful of other CLS-influenced law schools (including those at Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Buffalo), will choose to become law professors and pass on ideas to the next generation...
...even such a conservative strategy might be in real trouble if some conservative and very outspoken CLS critics have anything to do with...