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When then-Assistant Professor Dalton filed suit six years ago, the Harvard Law School was divided into warring camps. But the major skirmishes did not center around plots of land or fortresses...
...Dalton was an adherent of Critical Legal Studies, a school of legal thought which is concerned with the effects of culture and society on the law and with its effects on the distribution of wealth and income. Traditional scholars maintain that "crit" does not constitute a legitimate filed of study...
...think [Critical Legal Studies] has peaked, as it were," says Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev F. Vagts, who voted against Dalton's tenure in 1987. "Some [of Critical Legal Studies] has been accepted by the mainstream and some is now being ignored...
...denial of Dalton's tenure bid came at the peak of the conflict over Critical Legal Studies. And if Harvard's legal ideology battle had casualties, she classified herself...
After a 29-20 faculty vote in the spring of 1987--four votes short of the necessary two-thirds approval for tenure--Dalton's failed bid drew emotionalreactions from both defenders and opponents...