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Washington responded at the forum to questionsfrom Harvard Law School Professor Duncan M.Kennedy '64 about the ongoing dispute overAssociate Law Professor Clare Dalton, who wasturned down for tenure this spring...
...School Tenure Controversy: In lateJuly President Bok said he would intervene in thecontroversial tenure case of Assistant Professorof Law Clare Dalton, who has charged that she didnot receive tenure because of her gender andpolitics. Although Bok said earlier he wasreluctant to review the case, Dalton appealed tothe President in May after she failed to win thetwo-thirds faculty majority necessary to insure alifetime post. The junior professor said she willsue the University on the grounds of sexdiscrimination if Bok fails to grant her tenure...
Meanwhile, law professors throughout thecountry have offered their input into the case,which liberal groups say is a referendum onacademic freedom at Harvard. More than 200 lawprofessors have signed a letter expressing concernover Bok's slow response to the Dalton vote andhis decision to override tenure for VisitingProfessor of Law David Trubek, another left-wingscholar. Like Trubek, Dalton is associated withCritical Legal Studies, a movement which holdsthat the law is rooted in dominant social normsand not abstract notions of justice...
...Dalton Redux: In an unprecedented move,President Bok announced that he will ask a groupof 15 outside legal experts--who overwhelminglysupported Dalton during her initial tenure bid inthe spring--to evaluate the arguments of heropponents in the Law Faculty. Bok's decision toseek advice from the experts signaled to manyobservers an admission of flaws within the LawSchool's tenure process, which Dalton and herattorney Nancy Gertner charge is "terriblyunfair...
Once the outside scholars present Bok withtheir conclusions--which is not expected to beuntil the end of the semester--Bok will decidewhat further steps to take in his review of thecase, he wrote in a letter to Law School DeanJames Vorenberg '49. Dalton supporters applaudedBok's decision, but conservative law professorscriticized the President's plan. However,professors from both sides agreed that Bok'sdecision to intervene would erode the Law School'sautonomy in the future...