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These conflicts were most visible with the tenure votes on Daniel Tarullo, David Trubek and Clare Dalton--in 1985, 1986 and 1987, respectively. Denied promotions amidst allegations of political bias, the three scholars were adherents of the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a school of thought holding that the law is rooted in dominant social norms and not abstract notions of justice...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: A Confident Vision in Turbulent Times | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...warring factions. And Vorenberg, unable to resolve the political infighting, asked President Derek C. Bok to intervene--prompting charges that the law faculty had lost its autonomy by calling in the president. In the end, none of the CLS scholars received tenure, as Bok reversed the faculty vote granting Dalton tenure and later confirmed the faculty's vote to deny a post to Trubek...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: A Confident Vision in Turbulent Times | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who led a sit-in in 1987 to protest the denial of tenure to Critical Legal Studies adherent Clare Dalton, said the nationwide protest promised to be be "very effective...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: HLS Students Protest Lack of Hispanic Profs | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

Whatever the literary or theological merits of The Satanic Verses, its commercial success is assured; yet for almost a week, such leading chains as Waldenbooks, B. Dalton and Barnes & Noble kept their remaining copies off the shelves. In New York City the Authors Guild, the PEN American Center and the Writers Guild of America (East) fired off letters of protest to the bookstore chains, criticizing them for caving in to censorship by terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism The New Satans | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Once again the bookstore chains bent with the wind. They had suffered a direct hit earlier in the week when New York Times columnist William Safire rebuked them: "Even for ever-merging Big Publishing, below the bottom line is another line marked 'freedom.' " At midweek B. Dalton, which also owns the Barnes & Noble stores, announced that "at the urging of an overwhelming majority of its store managers and employees," it would again stock the Rushdie novel. Waldenbooks said it would stick to its policy of selling the book but not displaying it, though local managers were permitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism The New Satans | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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