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...Pusey '28, the 82-year-old former president of Harvard, offered his perspective on recent events at the Law School to a Crimson reporter in a recent interview. Pusey, who drew fire for calling in the police to arrest student protesters 20 years ago, compared the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School to the student protesters of a generation ago. CLS, a radical school of legal thought that stresses the law's biases toward the economically privileged, has divided professors at the Law School and prompted Bok's intervention twice in recent years...
Three of them were adherents to the radical school of legal scholarship, Critcal Legal Studies (CLS), which holds that the law is an instrument of social injustice. CLS has divided the academic community, and many right-wing professors nationwide have pushed to keep CLS professors off of law faculties...
...Harvard, two CLS tenure-tracked professors were denied lifetime posts in highly controversial votes after Bok intervened. Many observers said they thought he was biased against the left-wing scholars, and they interpreted the appointment of Clark as yet another political message from the president...
Neither Kennedy nor Sullivan are considered "shrimps" themselves. They are not CLS adherents, and their scholarship didn't raise such questions of ideology...
...several students said they believed that Clark's controversial appointment will fail to heal the rift between the conservative and leftist faculty members. Clark has been an outspoken critic of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of thought that characterizes the law as an instrument of social injustice...