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...professors contacted yesterday said they were concerned that Clark--an outspoken critic of the Law School's left wing and radical scholars--would deepen the already serious ideological rifts in the faculty. Clark has often criticized adherents of the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement, who say that the law is an instrument of social injustice...
...disaster for the Law School at a time when we needed someone to help restore trust within the faculty," said Warren Professor of Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, a CLS adherent. "We have instead somebody who by temperament, ideology and educational outlook is most likely to polarize the faculty...
...Clark, who has called the CLS movement "deeply pernicious," and urged that it be "combatted in legal education," said yesterday he did not intend to persecute the radical scholars or purge them from the school...
Twice in the last four years Bok has intervened in the traditionally independent tenure review process, denying CLS scholars tenured posts after close faculty votes. Both times, Clark publicly attacked the proposed appointments...
...faculty members said they were also concerned that Clark would be insensitive to race and gender issues. When Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell--one of two tenured Black professors at the Law School--held a sit-in in 1987 to protest the faculty's vote to deny a CLS adherent tenure, Clark said "This is a university--it's not a lunch counter in the deep South...