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Assistant Professor Clare Dalton filed a gender discrimination suit yesterday against Harvard Law School, which denied her tenure bid last...
...However, Dalton said that if the University offers her tenure after President Bok reviews the case, she will drop the suit...
...Dalton had to file her suit now according to Massachusetts law which dictates that gender discrimination suits can not be filed any more than six months after the discriminatory act. She sent a letter to Bok this week saying that the suit did not mean she would not honor the outcome of his review...
...told President Bok that I needed to file my complaint merely to protect my rights to file a suit," Dalton said yesterday. "Filing the complaint doesn't reflect a change in my decision to wait until his review process is finished to proceed with any action...
...announced his decision to review Dalton's case this summer after many of her supporters charged that her opponents on the Law School faculty attacked her scholarship because of her political ideology. Dalton embraces the theories of Critical Legal Studies, which holds that the law is not based on abstract notions of justice but on social and economic norms...