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April 19, 1985: The Harvard Law School appointments committee refuses to recommend Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton for tenure. The seven-member committee split evenly three ways: two supporting tenure, two opposing, and two asking for a two-year postponement before considering her for tenure...
...tight vote--said to be just more than the required two-thirds majority--the faculty votes, to grant Dalton a two-year extension rather than deny her tenure immediately...
...Dalton is denied tenure by the Law School faculty, making her the second tenure track professor in 17 years to be denied a promotion, and the third Critical Legal Studies (CLS)-affiliated professor to have their tenure bid blocked by either Bok or the faculty. Although she receives a 29-20 vote of the faculty supporting her promotion, Dalton falls four votes shy of the two-thrids majority necessary for approval. Dalton says at the time that she will ask Bok to review the case, charging that the faculty discriminated against her because she is a woman and is affiliated...
...week of July 13, 1987: President Bok says that he will personally review the Dalton case. He says the he may convene a committee, which would include outside scholars, to then review his own resolution of the matter...
July 23, 1987: Dalton's attorney, Nancy Gertner, says Dalton will sue the University on the grounds of political and gender discrimination unless Harvard reverses the faculty's vote and grants the junior professor tenure...