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...decided last summer to review Dalton's tenure bid--which received three votes fewer than the necessary two-thirds faculty support--after receiving a letter from 18 faculty members, which charged that the torts expert was discriminated against because of her gender and political views...
...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...
...very disappointed that President Bok wasn't able to correct the mistake that the faculty made," Dalton said yesterday. "I still feel that, based on the pattern of appointments here in the last few years, my work was tenure-worthy and that there was both political and gender discrimination involved in my tenure being denied...
...Dalton's tenure case was delayed first for two years in the spring of 1985 because of insufficient scholarship. When her bid came up again in the spring of 1987, she was denied a lifetime post and became the second assistant professor in 17 years to be denied a promotion...
...Dalton said after hearing of the decision that she had not yet decided whether to follow through on a gender discrimination suit she filed against the University in November. "We are considering our options. Obviously litigation remains a strong possibility," she said yesterday...